Motor Oil: Green Earth Technologies

[JBird]

Has anyone ever used or heard of this motor oil? My boyfriend will be receiving his 1984 Mercedes G wagon tomorrow and was thinking about putting this oil in it. It's a biodegradable, fat-based motor oil. We're doing the research on it. It has excellent reviews on Amazon.

This engine oil is made from rendered beef tallow, without petroleum of any sort. That makes it carbon-neutral and derived from a domestically-produced renewable resource.

Green Earth Technologies 1155 G-Oil 5W-30 Green Motor Oil


http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradv...vice-mark.html

[bmwstephen]

interesting read here. goes up against mobil one

http://www.getg.com/howWeDoIt.php

I might try this on my every other oil change (need to feed zinc to the m20's every once in a while). though I am far from being an environmental extremist, I do take opportunities to lower my carbon footprint and I think this will be one of them.

[structured]

Anything made from beef can't be "carbon neutral". Still interesting. I'd put it in an old beater, but not my freshly rebuilt M20.

[u3b3rg33k]

I recall greasing the axle with tallow in the oregon trail.

[CorvallisBMW]

Anything made from beef can't be "carbon neutral".

This. US meat production produces more greenhouse gases than all of our transportation.

I recall greasing the axle with tallow in the oregon trail.

before or after you caulked your wagon to ford the river?

[mrsleeve]

I would not put that shit in a 1985 Dodge Omni Let alone a FUCKING GELAENDEWAGEN, that is BIG money to fix and replace things on like the engine. Unless you dont want it to last.

There is a ton of reasons we still use Petro based oils for lubrication of engines and trasmissions, and Not Pork and Beef byproducts


Next once you put that in a Combustion engine ITS NOT GREEN ANY MORE. It picks up combustion by products, it picks up Trace amounts of fuel from blow by, it get lots of heavy metals in it from Copper to Zinc including Pb.

Just stick with a good quality Dino oil for that G-wagen if its a Diesel then you want to use some thing with a API CJ-4 rating.

[JBird]

I would not put that shit in a 1985 Dodge Omni Let alone a FUCKING GELAENDEWAGEN, that is BIG money to fix and replace things on like the engine. Unless you dont want it to last.

There is a ton of reasons we still use Petro based oils for lubrication of engines and trasmissions, and Not Pork and Beef byproducts


Next once you put that in a Combustion engine ITS NOT GREEN ANY MORE. It picks up combustion by products, it picks up Trace amounts of fuel from blow by, it get lots of heavy metals in it from Copper to Zinc including Pb.

Just stick with a good quality Dino oil for that G-wagen if its a Diesel then you want to use some thing with a API CJ-4 rating.

mrsleeve,

So you are basically saying that anyone who puts synthetic in an engine will watch it blow up. You are correct that once the oil is used it is no longer 'green' but that's not the point. The point is that the oil is derrived from a waste product: beef tailings.

You must have missed the whole 'oil was organic matter a few million years ago'.

[JasonC]

How much does this stuff cost?

[z31maniac]

So you are basically saying that anyone who puts synthetic in an engine will watch it blow up.

Uhhhhh, what?

Me thinks someone doesn't know what "synthetic" oil actually is.

[bmwstephen]

Uhhhhh, what?

Me thinks someone doesn't know what "synthetic" oil actually is.

i think she was trying to refute mrsleeve's implied claim of "no substitute for traditional oil" by using another type of oil that was once subject to skepticsm like synthetic... but hey synthetics proved themselves on older and modern engines and they're here to stay... yet there is still a crowd that'll fight to the death about the superiority (or lack of depending on how you look at it) of dino oils.

[u3b3rg33k]

This. US meat production produces more greenhouse gases than all of our transportation.



before or after you caulked your wagon to ford the river?

I think I had to re-do it after fording the river. I also recall changing muffler bearings on my ox team.

I would not put that shit in a 1985 Dodge Omni Let alone a FUCKING GELAENDEWAGEN, that is BIG money to fix and replace things on like the engine. Unless you dont want it to last.

There is a ton of reasons we still use Petro based oils for lubrication of engines and trasmissions, and Not Pork and Beef byproducts


Next once you put that in a Combustion engine ITS NOT GREEN ANY MORE. It picks up combustion by products, it picks up Trace amounts of fuel from blow by, it get lots of heavy metals in it from Copper to Zinc including Pb.

Just stick with a good quality Dino oil for that G-wagen if its a Diesel then you want to use some thing with a API CJ-4 rating.

I've figured out your problem. You hate fun.

It's not like you're rubbing beef fat on the main bearings.

[JBird]

Thank you bmwstephen. Yes that is what I meant. It seems like mrsleeve is saying that there is no replacement when obviously there is.

Also, the G-wagon is not a diesel. You can't legally import the diesel G-wagons.

[mrsleeve]

Thank you bmwstephen. Yes that is what I meant. It seems like mrsleeve is saying that there is no replacement when obviously there is.

Also, the G-wagon is not a diesel. You can't legally import the diesel G-wagons.

Really: are you trying imply that I dont know what I am talking about. DO you really want to tangle with me on this kind of subject?????

1 Synthetic oils are still made form Petroleum BASE STOCKS, other than very few. And those few are still based on Petro Chemical polymer chains. Yes they used to be organic in origin no arguments there. But over Millions of years its Chemical Characteristic have changed thanks to heat and pressure and "ageing", now its not so organic any more UNLIKE BEEF FAT IN A BOTTLE with a fancy label on it.

But Petro oils are much more resistant to heat, shearing and have higher surface tension values than most of the "Organic oils". Petro retains its Lubricity values longer, it also maintains Viscosity better at higher temps longer. There are many other reasons why we use based oils petro oil over beef byproducts.

Next YES YOU CAN IMPORT DIESEL G WAGEN, Rover Defenders, ect... and anything else you want. The key is it has to be 25 years old or older and then you bypass the DOT Federalization requirements and the EPA Emissions requirements. Being a 1984 G-Wagen its more than 25 years old so it very well could be a Diesel this is why I asked.


Urbanbroskieeeee- Nahhhhh I dont hate fun, I hate stupid.

[Fusion]

Another Goretard product.
I bet it takes 10 power plants to make one bottle and 300 freight trucks driving back and forth from various facilities to make it happen. Not to mention millions in funds from the tax payers pocket.

[accident]

does this mean i wont feel bad when i dump the used shit in the storm drain?