I’m due for an oil change next month, so I guess I can look forward to a higher price for that service.
Second Automaker Sounds Alarm Over Dwindling Motor Oil Stock [UPDATE]
Oil shortage ? Gee, I wonder if we could just blame one person for that?
Better head off to Wally World and lay in a stock of 50 gallons or more of your favorite grade of synthetic oil. Are the oil shelves going to look like the toilet paper shelves at the grocery store before the big storm?
It’s a conspiracy to get everyone on board with the extended OCI of 10k miles!
I seem to have trouble finding 0W-16 anyway…
I’d use 0w20. Wife’s Crown oil recommendation is 0W8. I will NOT use that .
People tend to overreact. His vehicle’s maintenance calls for 1.25 gallons/year, 50 gallons would be a 40-year supply.
Car dealers charge $12/quart for synthetic motor oil, next month it could be $13.
I’m fairly well stocked with at least enough for several oil changes on the shelf. I just keep a normal inventory but I could buy another jug or so. I just remember back in 1958 my dad forgetting to put the drain plug back so I always have extra oil in case if my own senior moment.
I exaggerated for effect. I doubt that there’s 20 gallons of any specific grade on the shelves.
I interpreted it as hyperbole, probably for some comic effect, and not to be taken as a serious suggestion.
Costco usually has several pallets of motor oil on the warehouse floor, each box has 2.5 gallons of oil.
Car dealers stock oil in 500-gallon tanks, plus several dozen cases of bottled oil.
20 gallons wouldn’t last until lunch time.
Of course, but on the other hand, why did people buy so much toilet paper? Or light bulbs? People do strange while in a panic.
The only people I knew/heard of that did that were to sell it at a profit. One guy was advertising TP at $100/roll
At my house we stocked up on gin, bourbon, and canned/frozen foods. 
Unless my wife is hiding some, I have no hard spirits in the house.. haven’t bought any in 30 years or more. Wine and ■■■■ is all. I was reasonably well stocked in the paper goods but there was one package left on a pallet at WM. As I was reaching for it, a young lady swooped in and grabbed it. I let her have it, figured she might need it more than me. A lady I know in phoenix had to ship a few rolls to her son in Saint Paul though because he couldn’t find any. So it was no joke.
I’m not a preper but easy to see how panic could step in with shelves empty, no heat, no electricity, etc. I like pasta though and you can make that and hot dogs on the grill.
I went to Wally World today to buy oil… The Mustang is getting close and it takes 10 quarts! I have the truck’s 6 quarts ready and the wife’s Audi isn’t due for a while.
The shelves were full of synthetic and semi-synthetic. Wally’s Supertech as well as the rest of the major brands.
Isn’t synthetic oil made from natural gas, of which we have an abundant supply and which the prices have actually declined?
Sounds like click bait and/or an opportunity to encourage panic buying and increased profits.
Autozone is telling stores to expect 40% less stock than normal.
This is just one of the shortages of critical materials caused by the war, it’s only getting worse.
And carmakers will be affected.
What? I thought synthetic oil came from artificial dinosaurs.
Not in most cases:
“Synthetic oil lubricant comprises chemical compounds that are artificially modified or synthesised. Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil, but can also be synthesized from other raw materials. The base material, however, is still overwhelmingly crude oil that is distilled and then modified physically and chemically.”
The shortage appears to be real. Not “clickbait”