Re: Outboard Oil
Hey, for all we know, and in all probability like in many products all outboard oil, regardless of the name on the container is from the same source. I will gaurantee you that !! NO !! outboard manufacturer makes !! ANY !! outboard oil. For instance, did you know that a person in Indiana invented, and developed the "Vise Grip" pliers? That no matter what name is on the vise grip like tool (with the exception of imported knock offs), craftsman, KB tools, vise grip, Snap-on, or what have you, if made in the US it is made in (or at least 30 years ago was) a small machine shop in Indiana. Whirlpool does not make any water heaters, but you can go to Lowes, and no where else, and purchase a whirlpool water heater, manufactured by a company that you probably never heard of, and I do not know but they may manufacture every hot water heater made. Why? Because Lowes made a survey and determined that whirlpool was the most well known, and respected name in appliences, so secured a license (??????) from whirlpool to have another company manufacture water heaters, put the name whirlpool on them and sell them as whirlpool, which they are not. Wallmart sells a sunbeam pop-cornpopper, that is junk, and a complete chinese knock off of a "HIGH QUALITY WEAREVER" corn popper(that cost twicw as much). Sunbeam does not manufacture a corn popper, but merely sold the rights ($$$$$) to wallmart, to use their name to market a piece of junk. Many refrigerators sold in the US, are manufactured by a vacuam cleaner company (electrolux) in a plant that used to be a frgidare plant in Anderson, SC regardless of what name is on the applience. I am not sure, but I do not think that GE (which owns NBC) manufactures any applience whatsoever, although you can purchase many with the name GE on them. This is all, no matter how you look at it examples of fraud, and a rip off of the American people by big business. Are you a gardner? Do you purchase from wayside gardens, whose mailing address is #1 Garden Lane, Hodges, SC. Well, there is no Wayside gardens, they exist only on paper, there is a Hodges, SC which barely exist, as it is no more than a meeting of two highways, but in Hodges there is no #1 Garden Lane, although you can find their web page, and get their catalogue. There was a time when a manufacturer was proud of their name, and if their name was on a product, you knew it was a quality product, but not today, as a manufacturer's name (which used to be a sign of quality) is for sale in this day and age to the highest bidder. I am not an employee of any of these companies, I have merely had problems with some of the junk they have tried to foist off on the public, and in trying to get my complaint to the right person, found out some facts that in reality should be very embarassing to US industry.
