I would also add you are better off purchasing your gas from a large well
known supplier, and be cautious, many refiners will have both corporately
owned stations and franchise stations. The corporately owned stations have a
very rigorous quality program. The Franchise stations may not. How can you
tell? The Franchise stations most likely will not have a convenience store
that is named the same as the brand of gas they sell. For instance if you
pull into a Sunoco and attached is Wild Bills grocery, it is not a Sunoco
station. Is all gas the same? Well that's another argument all together.
But for reliability stick to the major refiners, the best you are going to
do is save 10 cents a gallon, that's less than $1.50 in one of our cars.
Ian
>From: Andy Cost <andycost@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Andy Cost <andycost@earthlink.net>
>To: Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Pinging engine??
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:19:34 -0500 (CDT)
>
> > it turned out that the high-test wasn't really so
>high.
>
>We test gasoline in my laboratory. The pipeline companies, trucking
>companies, storage facilities, airport, and gas stations have the gas
>tested regularly. We find many times that there is contamination in the
>gas from diesel where they have pumped gas and diesel from the same
>pipeline or tanker. We also find that the tankers fill the gas stations
>with the wrong octane of gas lots of times. We will see 87 octane in all
>the tanks at some stations. We see a lot of crud in some gas. A rule of
>thumb is to never fill up while the tanker is unloading.
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