Fuel for Gassers
Anyone run Premium fuel or Octane Boost? Improved performance/mileage or waste of $$.
Forum Discussion
I’ve proven, on both of my own, and several other m/h’s that the lack of alcohol and related contaminants results in enough extra mileage to more than offset the increased costs. On my older rig my mileage increases about 23% by running ethanol-free fuel.
So here’s how that plays out in my case, round-trip to south Florida is about 3,000 miles. My rig gets 7.32 mpg on regular gasoline with ethanol in it. So that trip is 410 gallons. If it has 10% ethanol then it’s 41 gallons of ethanol and 369 gallons of gasoline.
On ethanol-free premium my rig gets 9.0 mpg. That same trip then uses 334 gallons of only gasoline. If your $0.60 / gallon is close then that trip costs an ‘extra’ $200. Except I bought 76 less gallons of gas. If we use a $3 / gallon average price that is $228.
So if I ‘waste’ $200 on premium but spend $228 LESS in fuel, it looks to me like I’m up $28....... and that’s before we get into the 35 gallons less gasoline and 41 gallons of ethanol I DIDN’T burn on top of the 334 gallons of ethanol free gas.
So here’s how that plays out in my case, round-trip to south Florida is about 3,000 miles. My rig gets 7.32 mpg on regular gasoline with ethanol in it. So that trip is 410 gallons. If it has 10% ethanol then it’s 41 gallons of ethanol and 369 gallons of gasoline.
On ethanol-free premium my rig gets 9.0 mpg. That same trip then uses 334 gallons of only gasoline. If your $0.60 / gallon is close then that trip costs an ‘extra’ $200. Except I bought 76 less gallons of gas. If we use a $3 / gallon average price that is $228.
So if I ‘waste’ $200 on premium but spend $228 LESS in fuel, it looks to me like I’m up $28....... and that’s before we get into the 35 gallons less gasoline and 41 gallons of ethanol I DIDN’T burn on top of the 334 gallons of ethanol free gas.
