Oil for Supercars 'To Run Dry In A Month'

[Atlas]

Jalopnik: Oil For Supercars 'To Run Dry In A Month' Thanks To U.S-Israel War With Iran

 

Or, perhaps your Chevy Truck:

 

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Consumers might experience the future strained supply chain in the form of long running times for backorder fulfillment and/or maintenance work like oil changes. Earlier this week, Costa Kapothanasis who owns Costa Oil, a quick oil change franchise with over 200 locations, provided a dark customer-facing picture when he posted on Twitter, "Just got word Mobil and Shell have informed Costco and Walmart they have no packaged product to send them and to expect bare shelves in the motor oil section in a few weeks."

 

[richard wysong]

Wonderful, Thanks Donnie boy!

[Atlas]

Yeah. I noticed the price of the definitely not FOR supercars oil I buy for my cars is already increasing too. I buy large quantities on RockAuto.

 

Mobil 0w20 ESPx2 quart = $9.94

That's up from $6.87 when I last purchased on April 12th.

 

Mobil 0w40 Supercar quart = $10.05. 

That's up from $8.67, also April 12th.

[KARNUT]

I just paid 7.80 for Max life at Walmart. 

[Black02Silverado]

Seems more is being posted on oil shortages so to speak.  As long as this doesn't turn into the toilet paper grab all will be fine. Just keep on doing normal daily routines.  It's my understanding that this is a short, no pun intended, oil shortage and will not last.

[Z45]

Trouble is that anything on the net is subject to skepticism.   More fake news than real news. 

 

Also a possible reason could be to spur panic buying to line pockets?   Like the Covid toilet paper fiasco.  Friend says he now has a supply for life after that.  Also the 2000 scare where people were buying generators because they were predicating power plants were going to go down. Lots of people with generators they have no use for now. LOL

Edited May 22 by Z45

[Atlas]

No, there's real truth to this. Disrupt global supply and damage the facilities that produce it, and inventory will be affected. Pretty simple.

 

Pricing is already affected.

 

I never understood the TP freaks during covid. How much toilet paper do you use, jesus. Never heard of a bidet?

 

Sadly there really isn't a substitute for high quality base stock oils.

[garagerog]

3 minutes ago, Z45 said:

Trouble is that anything on the net is subject to skepticism.   More fake news than real news. 

 

Also a possible reason could be to spur panic buying to line pockets?   Like the Covid toilet paper fiasco.  Friend says he now has a supply for life after that.  Also the 2000 scare where people were buying generators because they were predicating power plants were going to go down. Lots of people with generators they have no use for now. LOL

Not to mention that in Y2K not many gas stations had back-up generators of their own, so once your gas was gone then what? In rural areas 100 yr. old windmills were better than gold, even to the point of outright theft of them.

[KARNUT]

Gas prices are going down in my area currently. It’s mostly speculation. That could change.

[RyanbabZ71]

I have 10 qts for the car so I am good.  Will be using in July after I swap out to 15W-50 for a track event.  

[BIGDOGx]

_{I have yet to experience any motor oil shortages, i actually just bought a 5 quart jug at Walmart full syn for under 20 bucks. I'm no keeper of prices and it is the budget Walmart brand, but under 20 bucks for 5 quarts seems as cheap as ever too me. I remember when i changed my own oil with Dino oil it was around the same price for 5 quarts like 3 bucks and that was for regular conventual oil like 20+ years ago. But the shelves were all stocked so no brands were missing and i think mobile 1 was around 28-30 for the 5 quart jug, not really that expensive imo at like 6 bucks per quart.}

[RyanbabZ71]

same here plenty at all stores   

[richard wysong]

same here no change, scare tactics trying to get folks to hoard?

[Silverado4x4]

1 hour ago, richard wysong said:

same here no change, scare tactics trying to get folks to hoard?

Yup just like in the winter when they call for a bad winter storm everybody runs to the store and buys all the milk, bread and toilet paper. 

[Atlas]

3 hours ago, Silverado4x4 said:

Yup just like in the winter when they call for a bad winter storm everybody runs to the store and buys all the milk, bread and toilet paper. 

 

Definitely propagated by Big Bread. Them's some shady characters.

 

That said, it's not quite been a full month since Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA) sounded the horn which prompted the CNBC story which spun up the Jalopnik article.

 

I thought I'd drive the point home by using something that is consuming your reserves of clean drinking water and raising your electricity bill, kind of like an unwanted house guest: AI. Now that y'all have invited Alexa into your homes, there's no getting rid of her, and she refuses to pay rent. But she'll tell you about the coming oil shortage. You heard it here first. I don't think we're out of the woods, yet...

 

 

 

If you don't believe Alexa you can see the post from our resident Amsoil distributor who posted about Amsoil raising its prices recently.

Edited June 9 by Atlas