The API has a new designation in the donut since last fall. When I browsed the oil aisle at Wally World, Royal Purple now has this designation: Resource Conserving. Many other oils that I would have considered also have added this phrase to the label. Methinks this sounds a bit too much like "Energy Conserving". I did make the effort to google the info, but I came up with results like this http://www.api.org/certifications/engineoil/new/upload/1509techbull1complete.pdf Fine. Straight from the horse's mouth. But, I couldn't find the Babblefish translator for this technospeak. So I leave it to you. Thumbs up or thumbs down on Resource Conserving oil? Thanks!
Might be fun to hand that to a service manager at a Harley dealer and ask him what he thinks about it.
my google results returned this: http://www.canadianoil.se/Bulletiner/nya_motoroljespecifikationer_2011.pdf I'm guessing that "Resource Conserving" is
