Originally Posted by birdman71 Its not my bank, Chevron and 76 usually have a credit card/debit card usage fee. May start going to shell now if that's the case, sadly
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And I literally think work can get 99% Toluene (114 octane) for $5/gallon now. And I rotate what I use. Sometimes toluene in small amounts, sometimes a few gallons, sometimes I use IPA (rubbing alcohol) to clear water out of the tank (just preventative especially because I run the tank down.) Then your off the shelf ones such as Seafoam and Barryman's C-41.
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actually the gas stations get the same fuel dont they? then they mix watever as the customer pays? im in the midwest so i get more corn.. |
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So. This is how the breakdown happens. (Will not be accurate math) The refinery needs to produce 10,000,000 gallons of gas in varying octane. The total octane of the gas is let's say 890,000,000... They can either make it all 89 octane, or some 87, some 89, some 91, and some 93, but for every gallon of 93, they need to make 2 gallons of 87. This works ok outside CA because every other car is a pickup that will run just fine on 85 octane, but in CA there are so many damn BMWs, Lexuses, and Mercs that we choose to produce so much high octane gas that we cannot make higher than 91 because there just isn't enough octane to go around at the end of the day.
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The refinery makes the highest and the lowest, the pump mixes usually. The thing is that (in my example) the demand for 87 has to be twice as high as it is for 93. I can tell you that in CA, 91 and 87 sell almost 1 to 1. I'll take a pic next time I fill up (next week)
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What's cash lol? Oh that green paper stuff haha, Try not to use that as often as I can lol
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I tell you that once I didn't use cash for 6+ months and the first time I went to use it I asked "hey, do you guys take ca-" then I realized what I was asking... Lol Next time you go to the pump, look for the ticker on the pump. It tells you how much has been dispensed (not in gallons if my memory is correct) since you're in CA, you'll see close to 1:1 from 87 to 91. In Texas it was like 3:1
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Also, they can raise the total octane of the batch, BUT it's not cost efficient. So for all intensive purposes that's how the gas breakdown works.
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But I have put in $90 more then once, our gas is about 80 cents lower then it's highest rt now. Thankfully since I use my car for work mostly they pay for all my gas. |
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Wow at some of the gas prices in this thread...didn't realize it was still so high in parts of the country.
All I can say is God Bless SC! Premium running $2.43/gal here over the weekend! |
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