One of the easiest choices for a replacement oil is the crude based oil in your boat motor. Our outboards are hanging over the side of the boat and oil can make it down in to the water. It is easy to think, it won’t happen, but it does. We know the rainbow sheen on the water while we are fishing or docked. We think, it’s a big ocean, it’s a big lake. If you had a pond that you had stocked, your thought would change because $60 more for biodegradable oil would protect the $8000 you paid to stock that pond and your fishing habit. The fact your children eat those fish makes the choice all that much easier.
When you watch the Frontline episode covering BP’s fast rise and corporate tendency to listen to financiers more than engineers to keep people safe and the environment safe, you become concerned. In the end, oil from the earth is free if you can get to it. The rush to get to it when President Obama opened drilling in the gulf of America caused a multibillion dollar rig to tip over because a check valve was installed backwards. Then Deepwater Horizon blew. Fish kill was enormous.
Fish kills aren’t limited to oil companies. Growing up, a new hydroelectric dam was installed in our river. The dam spillway was built in a way that it caused one of the largest fish kills we had ever seen. GSS killed the fish and the dam had to be changed, the releases managed more carefully. It had to be reengineered and fixed. Using plants and algae to grow oil can also have issues but all the components are less intrusive because they are natural. Crude oil hasn’t been seen by microbes for hundreds of years of millions of years and they can’t eat it naturally. So switching to biodegradable oils is a smart and natural choice. The fatty oils with their long carbon chains are modified by our process to produce a uniform extremely strong oil that outperforms all mineral oil and synthetic oils.
If you want to change from Mercury Crude based oil you have a biodegradable choice that will be better to your engine and better for the environment. A mixture of input oils with different branching structures makes crude mineral oils bad lubricants and even synthetic oils derived from them lessor oils. If you want the best choice, utilize plant and algae derived oils. If you could afford 5 of these great engines you can easily invest in the future of safe oils for our backyard pond.
You will be tempted to go with the manufacturer’s recommendation on oil because it is your warranty at risk. But you only need to ask a question, if you made outboard engines that lasted 60 years with amazing oil in them, how would you grow sales? How would you sell parts for rebuilds? It is not in the incentive structure to approve another oil or a better system that makes their product outlive the warranty by 3 to 5 times. Is this a grand plot, no. They make it just good enough and as cheaply as possible, crude oil makers offer that to them and you. We don’t think, “I got the oil for $10/quart saving $2 but put my $15,000 engine at risk”. We just think, I saved money on the oil change and the mechanic thinks it’s ok, it is a good oil. Is he the same mechanic you go back to when something breaks? Our incentive structure is not set up to protect your investment, you have to do the research and make that call to switch to biodegradable superior designed oils from ABOVE. You have to be smokey the bear, only you can protect the environment and your engine from catching on fire.
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