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Old 02-25-2010, 12:03 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Dragoneye View Post
Well...first of all. "Synthetic" means "man-made", traditionally...So, Synthetic oils are misrepresented, because they are NOT man-made. What a synthetic oil is, basically...a highly-refined motor oil. It's a cleaner, purer oil and gets refined to have midly different characteristics from standard oil. It's not "created", though. It still comes from petroleum.

As far as an 'synthetic' alternative to fossil fuels...how's this?

http://www.greencrudeproduction.com/

My biggest hope for the world right now, believe it or not, is that this (^) takes off like a bat outta hell.
Oh yeah - I remember that from Horsepower TV, lol! They went to Royal Purple and they explained that. I still meant a completely sythetic, but I didn't say that right. Thanks for making that clearer

That stuff looks pretty cool!
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