by KE4AVB » Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:55 am
Yes oil has gone up a little here too. I was buying 5 US qt bottles of Kawasaki SAE 15w50 oil at a reasonable price until last year. It now costs me $54.56 usd per 5 qt bottle. On top that shipping went through the roof. Now I buy Mobile One version from Walmart at $26.57 (5qt bottle) with free shipping to my door. I usually buy six qt bottles at a time as I don't do a lot oil changes. Actually the local Walmart have stop stock the Dino oils. The last I took time to go through the oil I only seen a couple bottles of Rotella oil.
This it $5.32 per quart. Now if I just get the one quart bottle then it is nearly $9. Converting to 18.9 liters (5 US gallons) then I am currently paying $106.28 ($139.84 CAD). Now the Super Tech SAE30 oil at Walmart online is $13.97 (18.38 CAD) per US gallon. So you are actually getting a better deal than I can locally here. So for the synthetic oils are just about the same price per quart. I have quit stocking 5w30 and 10w40 in flavor of the 15w50 syn since our Summer temps are getting higher every year. Yesterday we got 89F air temp but the heat index was 105F. The sun feels like oven beaming down on my skin.
You can anyway blame this on the greedy Saudis in the Middle East and Russia. But of the US oil companies are just as greedy.
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