Green Earth Technologies Inc. said that it can replicate a substance chemically identical to the oil we put in our cars from animal fat. The company calls their new creation G-Oil and they are already producing substances for 2-cycle and 4-cycle engines.
Mat Zuckerman, GET's technology chief, started working on the process several years ago, when he examined emu oil and decided that he could make a better oil than everything out there.
The company still recommends customers to use the manufacturer guidelines when choosing and changing oil products.
"There is a big push to replace petroleum distillates with an alternative source," said Doug Kingman, an agricultural sciences professor at Sam Houston State University. "It's really nice to take animal fat that we'd normally throw away and turn it into something useful."
GET's motor oil will be sold for about $5.99 to $6.99 depending on the location, while quart of Mobil 1 10w30 synthetic oil is sold for about $6.50.
"We can't really solve the world's fuel problem this way, because there's not enough fat," Zuckerman said. "But we can solve the world's lubrication problem."
"There is not enough oil from animals in the U.S. to displace an entire industry, but maybe (GET) will discover something we didn't know," Houston said. "Every gallon we can make out of animal fat is a gallon we're not taking out of the ground or importing from someone else."
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