Where does Mobil 1 come from?

[Paul G]

From a bottle is not the answer I am looking for.

It is synthetic which means made by man, not natural. So what is it made from?

[Drache]

Synthetic motor oils are fuel efficient, extended life lubricants manufactured from select base stocks and special purpose additives. Synthetic oil base stocks are made from organic compounds or synthetic hydrocarbons using a process that re-arranges the structure so all the molecules are uniform in size, shape and weight, a phenomenon that does not occur in nature.

You can make synthetic oil from coal, but the only time this was tried on a large scale was by the Nazis under wartime conditions, using impressive amounts of slave labor.

[Troy]

A synthetic oil is an oil manufactured for enhanced lubrication performance using The Fischer-Tropsch process which converts carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. The carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide is generated by partial oxidation of coal and wood-based fuels. This process was developed and used extensively in World War II by Germany, which had limited access to crude oil supplies. Germany's yearly synthetic oil production reached more than 90 million tons in 1944. It is today used in South Africa to produce most of that country's diesel from coal. Since there are large but finite coal reserves in the world, this technology could be used as an interim transportation fuel if conventional oil were to disappear. There are several companies developing the process to enable practical exploitation of so-called stranded gas reserves, those reserves which are impractical to exploit with conventional gas pipelines and LNG technology..

The majority of oil lubricants are mineral oils, mixtures of refined fractions of crude oil.

Synthetic oils are fabricated by polymerizing short chain hydrocarbon molecules into longer single chain hydrocarbons. Their lubrication characteristics can be adjusted by controlling the spectrum molecular weights that go into the finished formulation, which usually also includes thickeners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil

More:
http://farmindustrynews.com/mag/farming_myths_synthetic_lubricants/
http://www.ired.com/news/lieberman/010708.htm
http://www.whatprice.co.uk/car/synthetic-oil.html

Troy

[Khyron]

damnit, I was gonna say an Oil tree

[Charger_Fan]

damnit, I was gonna say an Oil tree

I was gonna say "beat's me!"

[Rocky]

I dunno, but does it work well on synthetic breast too?