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I buy 87 octane Top Tier gasoline. I use Shell most of the time because I have three Shell stations near my home. If I see Exxon, Chevron or Texaco cheaper than Shell on my travels about, I will buy that. There are only a few other Top Tier brands in town, and I rarely drive anywhere near those stations.
Top Tier gasoline usually costs no more than cheap gasoline. Even a nickel or more a gallon to get the benefits of a Top Tier brand is very cheap insurance for keeping injectors, valves, and an engine clean, and running at it's peak.
Using a higher octane than your engine needs is wasting money. Buying Top Tier gasoline from a station that sells lots of gas is the best way to keep your car young.
Hate to break the news to yall, but gas is gas, all the gas comes out of the same tanks and pipelinesregarless of who refines it. At long as u get from a station that has plenty of business and doesn't let water get in the tank ull be fine. If u really want throw a bottle of stp cleaner in ur tank once in a while.
Don't ask how I know this, but trust me after workin in the oil an gas business in Lousiana for 30 yrs.., well I'm just staten facts.
Just as Walgreens, CVS or Wal-Mart aspirins are the same as Bayer, 87 octane gas at Billiy Bobs gas station is the same 87 octane gas at Chevron, Exxon or BP.
If you live on a coast, most of the time the gas is brought to a tank farm by barge. ALL gas stations within a certain radius get their deliveries by truck from that farm. It's not Chevron, Citgo, Billy Bobs. It's just 87 octane gas from different sources.
If you live inland, the tank farms get their deliveries by a pipeline. The pipe lines spread out in all directions to refineries hundreds of miles away.
Except for some high performance engines designed for specific performance vehicles, almost all engines are designed to use 87 octane gas, as required by the federal government. Using a higher octane in an engine designed for 87 octane and as stated in the owners manual does absolutely nothing to boost mileage or power or make the engine run better.
Expensive gas yeah, equivalent of $7.65 per gallon, though taxes are higher than in the US. Expensive car not at all, I doubt I could get more than €500 from it. From what I've read on the constructor website, it's advisable for vehicles prior to 2000 not to use gasoline containing a significant percentage of ethanol too often.
I've got the choice between wasting money on 98 or wasting gas to go to the nearest station selling "regular" 95. Both options are roughly equal, but the first is more convenient, so it's the one I chose. But whenever I take trips I take advantage of it to refill, so I probably buy as much 95 as 98.
On a new vehicle, I buy the cheapest gasoline that meets the automobile manufacturer's recommendation. Anything more than that is just a waste of money. But what is good about extreme cold weather is that the winter gasoline additives used in the lower-48 States, or Obama's 56 aren't used in Alaska.
Hate to break the news to yall, but gas is gas, all the gas comes out of the same tanks and pipelinesregarless of who refines it. At long as u get from a station that has plenty of business and doesn't let water get in the tank ull be fine. If u really want throw a bottle of stp cleaner in ur tank once in a while.
Don't ask how I know this, but trust me after workin in the oil an gas business in Lousiana for 30 yrs.., well I'm just staten facts.
So you're saying that all the brands that claim to have things in their gas that other brands do not are lying? All those TV ads that say "Buy our gas. We have superduperclean in it" are false?
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regarless of who refines it. At long as u get from a station that has plenty of business and doesn't let water get in the tank ull be fine. If u really want throw a bottle of stp cleaner in ur tank once in a while.
aren't used in Alaska.
