Top tier gasoline.

JaxDad wrote:

wny_pat wrote:
I have formed a solid conclusion that very few of the posters on this thread have ever been in a refinery's laboratory, and have no idea of what goes on there. You obviously must think that gasoline is refined directly from crude oil at a refinery and nothing else is added to it after it has been refined. Wow:h Such contempt prior to investigation!

You nailed it Pat, just not likely in the way you thought you did.

When you go to fill up, there's 3 choices, and there's a big difference between them. One has very little additives, one has a little more additives, and the 3rd one has some great additives in it.

The "base stock" however, the gas they start 'brewing' from, it's all the same stuff.

You can make your own "premium" fuel with very little in additives.

In any vehicle built in the last 10 - 15 years the vehicles computer is more than capable of dealing with a very wide variety of gasoline. In my own daily driver, a high performance V8 powered SUV, the manufacturer specifies premium fuel only. Since the day it was new I doubt it's had 3 tanks of premium through it.

In this area, premium fuel is currently ~$0.70 / US gallon more than regular. Since it takes 23 gallons to fill it, that's an extra $15 - $16 per fill up.

Since I can reproduce 'premium' fuel with about $1.00 in additives per tank, guess what I do.

But to all of you buying into that marketing 'fertilizer', I thank you for record dividends on my gas company stocks.

Yup! And believe me when you don't have a computer you can tell the difference between gas. Not that we have found a reliable brand - we just get lucky or unlucky. We've gotten bad gas from lots of different stations - but Exxon and Shell stand out in our memories so we try to avoid them... We can tell because we get pinging when pulling a tough grade when we get the bad gas. So far the off brand Sheetz is about the only one we haven't had problems with (yet).

So - JaxDad - if you could tell me the 1.00 per tank additive we can get let me know - thanks!