+1; I think the idea is, if the seal fails after three years, some.... "weird things" can get/grow inside the jar, and the consumer can end up eating them unwittingly. So it's CYA on the product purveyor's part.

"....We are billion-year-old carbon...."

 

"the age of the Universe is measured to be 7001137990000000000♠13.799±0.021 billion years"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

 

pour those good old recycled dinosaurs in your engine, and take the old dirty stuff and pour it around the foundation of the house. it will keep the bugs away from the house.

 

but it wont keep the EPA away

 

what the EPA don't know won't hurt Jose. and he can tell them to kiss his cojones, cause the EPA has not power south of the border!!

and speaking of the epa, many many moons ago we took over a farm a few miles from the main farm. the old gal living there told us her dad left some equipment that was given to him in the back sheds, if we thought we could use it we could have it.
off i went with the JD 4020 and a brush hog cutting the fields, and found the old barns on the back of the property.
inside were brand new 40 year old John Deere implements: disc with extra parts, 4 bottom plow with extra moldbords, a chisel plow, a sub soiler, and a 6 row corn drill. and they all looked like they were coated with road tar.
we asked the woman, and she told us that for 2 years one of the oil companies experimented on the farm with oil or tar as a fertilizer. the ground was so so forever before they did their tests, and then it improved greatly. then they stopped farming when her father went to war, and never worked the ground again except for feed crops for themselves and grain for the critters.

we started working it, and had sweet corn 12 foot tall with ears 12-14 inches long, and as many as 12 ears per stalk. and it was the sweetest corn i ever ate.
same with tomaters, peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, and the other greens. the next year we planted grain there, and got double/triple the yield of wheat and soy beans than we got on any of the other farms we worked.
and it stayed productive like that until she died and her kids sold it to a developer to build mcmansions on.

 

That makes my blood boil!

 

Thanks man.

We dont have EPA here, but we have SEMARNAT that has regulations and is similar to the EPA.

 

Actually they are a lot more strict with emmisions and environment than our EPA.

 

Yeap

 

^^^^ And all those extra letters makes them very important.....

 

You are right, agree

 

I would use it. As long as it "looks clean" and no contamination got in there you are good. Ive used 10 year old 2 stroke oil that wasnt sealed, worked fine.

 

The oil will be good but don't mix it with different oils. It may be difficult to match your old oil grade and old SAE standards.

 

Good call, thank you.