Why is Pennzoil and QState SOOOOOO much more expensive than the competing gear oils?

| |I'm scratching my head and wondering what I'm missing here. | |For my various manual transmissions I prefer a no-compromise pure GL-4 |lubricant. Not a GL5 and probalby not even a GL4/5 - just good old |fashioned plain GL4. | |Well dont' get me started on how hard it is to find GL4 but briefly |here's what I found: | |StaLube (hard to find but NAPA sometimes has it or can order it) GL4 |85W90 conventional $3/qt | |Redline MT 75W90 GL4 - (nobody sells locally but can be readily mail |ordered) $8 or so I think plus shipping. | |Well Pennz and Quaker also make a 75W90 GL4 and it's synthetic no |less. Nobody sells it mail order, online and forget about local retail |parts houses. Found one distributor that has a case. Try almost $200 |for 12 bottles?!? What the #### is this stuff made of?! And that was |no joke either - I saw on another bulletin board for oils that 2 other |guys saw the same prices after they finally found it. | |Never thought I'd see the day that redline would be the 'cheap stuff'. |Or for that matter the 'easy to find' stuff. | |So is this stuff liquid gold or is Penn and Quaker just out on a |reality break??? | |(No I don't know what they charge for their regular non-synthetic GL4 |- nobody ever had any so gave up on that one)

That would be Pennzoil #56076, which costs us $12.02/qt wholesale. Also available is #21176 GearPlus 80w-90 GL-4 at $1.89/qt.

Valvoline offers GL-4 only in 5-gallon pail.

Good luck Rex in Fort Worth

$12 Wholesale? Must be liquid gold. Well at least they named it appropriately when they called it "ULTRA Synthetic" no? Actually maybe they should call it Ultra Ultra :)

Thanks for the insights. The conventional 80W90 price sounds about right and is competitive.