G-Oil: Biodegradable, Environmentally Safe Motor Oils
By Stephen Cooke
With lawn and garden season fast approaching, it’s time to fire up the garden polluters, and by that I mean the tools powered by two-stroke engines. Luckily, Green Earth Technology has developed its new line of Green Oil, a “Green alternative” to your regular motor oil. Green Earth Technology makes their G-Oils from American-grown base oil that’s “enhanced with the power of nanotechnology and dehydrogenation”.
G-Oil contains bio-additives such as amino acids, plant and vegetable extracts, non-ionic surfactants, and plant-based fatty acids in a base of colloidal micelles. It all adds up to produce a range of oils that’ll work in anything from your lawn mower to your heavy-duty turbocharged and super-charged diesel.
The oil’s packaged in 100%-recyclable containers with biodegradable labels and inks. And when it’s time to change your oil, you can dispose of the G-Oil by mixing it with Green Earth Technology’s “G-DISPOSOIL” — it converts the oil into soil, making the oil 100% biodegradable.
G-Oil two-cycle engine oil meets and exceeds the motorcycle API TC and the Husqvarna chain saw requirements. G-Oil’s 365-degree flashpoint makes it considerably safer, and its no-smoke formula doesn’t utilize any solvents to increase the gasoline miscibility.
G-Oil automotive oil comes in several weights: 5w-20, 5w-30, 10w-30, 10w-40, 15w-40, 20w-50, and SAE-30. The oil will work in engines that require API Service SJ, SL, SM/CD, CDI, CE, CF, CF-2, CF-4, CG-4, CH-4, CI-4, CL-4 Plus, and ACEA E2-96, E5-02 Issue2/B3-98/A3-98.
You can use G-Oil Marine TC-W3 engine oil in your outboard engine or your personal watercraft’s two-cycle engine. It passes the National Marine Manufacturers Association two-cycle engine oil certification tests, and it meets or exceeds the requirements for high-performance air-cooled engines.
G-Oil [Green Earth Technology]
March 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
But where can I buy this oil?
And wouldn’t the used motor oil have plenty of old dino oil left over from the previous oil change, more than you want to use as dirt?
March 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Until you can buy it this product isn’t oil, it’s vapor.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
why on earth would I trust this in my car? Until I see hard data on how this holds up in real engines, no way would this go in my motor. not to mention, how are they getting around adding things like molybdenum and other metal-based anti-wear components that they add to regular oil.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Ok, ignoring the vaporware status of the product — Eric G., who ever said ANYTHING about using this in your car? Unless you have some Soviet-era East German or Russian clunker, I doubt your car is 2-cylinder, which is all that this oil is (allegedly) designed for.
As for discarding the used oil w/ their add-in product to make it degradable — note that it only makes their oil degradable. It’s not going to do anything for the crap that’s in the oil that made you replace it in the first place; and even if you’d used this stuff from the very beginning (meaning no petroleum or synthetic oil mixed in), I doubt you’d want to use it in your flower beds because of all the other gunk floating in the oil now.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Beg to differ, they show both 2-CYCLE and MOTOR OIL above… Who ever said anything about using it in your 2-cylinder!?!
March 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Better to just take your used oil to a place to be recycled. http://earth911.org/
March 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Stihl’s top of the line 2-stroke oil is also billed as being biodegradable.
http://www.stihlusa.com/accessories/twocycleoil.html
March 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
It’s all biodegradable. However, some of it takes longer to break down,
March 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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August 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I don’t give a damn about whether an oil “biodegrades” at any point before it is burned in an engine. What I care about is whether the oil is nonpolluting. That’s what i’m looking for: an alternative to petroleum-based or “synthetic” oils for my 2-stroke scooter. Both of these pollute when burned.