"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:18:14 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:58:13 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:


I suppose you know that all "synthetic" oils are made from
petroleum
oil.
Actually quite a bit is made from natural gas - - - And in South
Africa they made it from coal during apartheid when they were
embargoed

Are you sure they make synthetic motor oil from gas? I know it's a
common source of ethylene, but I'm not sure about what molecules
they
use to assemble Mobil 1.

--
Ed Huntress

The MSDS reveals nothing useful:
http://www.texasexpresslube.com/docu...01%205W-30.pdf

-jsw