poll - high mileage civics, what oil U burn ?

> Date: Thurs, Jan 26 2006 3:31 am
> From: "TeGGeR®"
>
> > Date: Wed, Jan 25 2006 7:08 pm
> > From: "karl"
> >
> >> Date: Tues, Jan 17 2006 3:19 am
> >> From: "TeGGeR®"
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Guess it would if you took each molecule apart into its constituent
> >> atoms, and then reassembled them into the molecules you wanted, no?
> >>
> >> But even if you could, what would be the point?
> >
> >
> >
> > This doesn't make sense: It was TeGGeR who argued
> > that making "synthetic" from waste oil doesn't work
> > BECAUSE OF THE HIGH COSTS OF CLEANING IT. Cleaning
> > used oil, I responded, doesn't make synthetic oil.
> > On the other hand, I believe it is economical to
> > make motor oil by "rerefining" used oil. And if the
> > used oil were ONLY synthetic then the "rerefined"
> > oil would be synthetic oil.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Now that I think of it, what started it all was when
> the OP asserted that
> recovering used oil would provide a "cheap" base stock
> with which to make
> his "synthetic". I said it would hardly be a "cheap"
> way of getting ANY
> kind of base stock. I don't recall saying that the
> cost of cleaning was the
> only barrier to making synthetic from dino.


That is correct, you also mentioned the costs of
collecting the oil. And what else you exactly wrote I
documented in my previous post.

Fact is that the discussion was about turning used oil
into synthetic by "cleaning" it. And if you remember
it differently then quote the relevant posts.



..

"karl" > wrote in
ps.com:

<snip>


>
> Fact is that the discussion was about turning used oil
> into synthetic by "cleaning" it. And if you remember
> it differently then quote the relevant posts.
>
>


OK, you win. I guess I've killed too many memory cells with beer. It's not
that important anyway.


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