I have wondered for some time about oil prices. Where I live, gas varies in price all the time, is generally low compared to many places, but motor oil just seems to go up continually. Why is this?
Sorry I missed this. I’m not completely sure why motor oil is so high. But I am going to guess it is because almost all of it is now synthetic and advertised as extended life lubricant. So marketing has a lot to do with it. I have noticed the standard natural petroleum motor oils are much cheaper than the synthetic oils. But I also noticed that when they jacked up the prices on synthetic they also jacked up natural oil prices. So there is a little gouging going on there too.