You can consider Amsoil. The reading I've done says it's actually the ONLY synthetic. Mobil and all the others are "cracked" which is a process of heating dino-oil and refining.

bob

> November 11, 2008 08:55, Jeffrey Lubin wrote:
> >
> > I want
> to change the oil in my wife's 2001 Volvo XC70  with 5w30 Mobil-1
> > (vanagon content:  I also use Mobil-1 in my '86 weekender) and I
> find
> > that NOBODY has it, due I'm told to hurricane damage in the
> Gulf.
> > Anyone have recommendations for reasonable
> alternatives?
> >