Filed under: Cars and Transportation, Alternative Energy, Plants and Wildlife

Outside of a major oil company's heavily greenwashed marketing campaign, you won't hear very many people use the words green and motor oil in the same sentence. Yet, if you walk down the lubricants aisle at your local auto part store, you may soon see both terms on the same bottle. That's because Green Earth Technologies has just become the first bio-oil to get the API seal of approval on their totally biodegradable, fat-based G Oil.

Green Earth Technologies' model is made entirely out of fat from American-bred livestock, and as the company likes to brag: "it takes three barrels of crude oil to make one barrel of motor oil, but it only takes one barrel of animal fat to produce one barrel of G-Oil." Getting the American Petroleum Institute's Service Symbol stamped on a quart of your 5W-30 is pretty much the equivalent of getting the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on an oven or dishwasher." Basically, it's shorthand for telling people 'hey, this stuff actually works.' Now, the real question: does it?

To be fair, traditional motor oil comes from animal fat -- it's just that the animals have been dead for billions of years. Who wants to be the first to test it out in their engine?

[via AutoblogGreen]

Green Motor Oil No Longer an Oxymoron? originally appeared on Green Daily on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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