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Rocky
P.S. Drop a STP fuel injector cleaner in the tank for your high mileage rides once in a while. They do work ya know
Rocky
87 = Regular
89 = Silver
93 = Super
94 = Ultra
Now it's
87 = Regular
89 = Silver
91 = Premium
93 = Ultra
Not only did they raise the prices, but they watered it down! Geeze! I refer to that Ultra 93 as the watered down slop I have to force-feed my Caddies. I get the octane booster to make this crap palatable to them.
Why in the hell did they drop your Ultra down a point ???? Did you ask why ?
Rocky
Rocky
At one time they had a grade called Economy which was 86 octane. Saw somebody's car hunched over a curb vomiting out oil and major engine parts with a metallic clang after a tankful of that swill!
Careful there my diesels will run on Kerosene. That is Jet "A" If it is good enough for a 747 should be good enough for a car.
Rocky
Did they change your formulation to ethanol 10% instead of MTBE for the Philly area?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
But octane is really only about reducing the tendency of an engine to knock or ping; it's not really "better" in the sense of a microbrew beating out watered down Coors Light.
Your Caddies should be perfectly fine on 93 octane; it wouldn't surprise me if GM specifies "only" 91 octane for these cars.
If you really have to add octane booster, there's got to be something wrong with your engines (I doubt that).
Does anyone remember in the 60s that Mobil used to promote something they dubbed the "megatane" rating in their TV ads? It was supposed to be a "truer" measure of a gasoline's quality than mere octane.
Local gas remained unchanged.
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2015 Kia Soul, 2021 Subaru Forester (kirstie_h), 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 (mr. kirstie_h)
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Last month I spend about $115 on gas for the Suburban, which is about average unless we go on a trip somewhere. My wife has a company car so her fuel is provided for. Honestly, I don't even pay attention the gas prices.
I pay attention to gas prices, and I gripe about them when I think they're too high, but they're really not making me change any habits. I'll drive my Intrepid a bit more gently, but I found out that my truck doesn't care if you feather it or stomp on it; it gets about the same mileage. I'm probably averaging maybe 1000 miles per month at the most, spread across my Intrepid, my truck, and an occasional jaunt on a nice day in one of my older cars.
Central VA, 87:
No-name at the car wash: $2.80
No-name at the quickie mart: $2.81
Hess, Liberty, and Pure: $2.82
Exxon nearest my house: $2.83
I'm still running around on $2.69 gas, but the '04 Camry is down to less than 1/8; guess I'll have to face the music soon.
~$2 a gallon equivalent for CNG. A couple of years ago it wasn't enoguh difference to be meaningful, plus there were so few filling places. But with gas rising to $3.50 a gallon in Los Angeles now, it's suddenly becoming an option.
Plus, you get carpool lane access out here.
(15.005 gallons of 87 at $2.799 for my '04 Camry.) Low fuel light was on.
At least I got 30.2 mpg. Price per gallon tied the highest I paid before (between Katrina and Rita).
Still hanging at $2.93 in State College, although last week was the end of the Penn State spring semester, so I'm not surprised that prices held up with all those cars that were going to need to be fueled to leave town.
Now I can afford that pack of Juicy Fruit I've been eyeing up!
shipo, "What about fuel types & gas mileage?" #136, 2 Apr 2005 8:42 am
Mobile was $2.519
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Must have something to do with contracts that the different distributors have or something.
The good news though, is that, so far at least, the Xterra is averaging about 20 mpg, which, sadly, is about all he got with his Tracker! IMO, that's not bad at all for a 4200 lb vehicle that has 265 or so hp.
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The average Seattle metro area price today is 3.14, up from 2.70 a month ago. The average national price today is 2.88, up from 2.66 a month ago. Right.
Might as well apply all of that Seattle-born and raised sarcasm of mine, for this is a subject that I oh-so-love to read about and talk about.
FWIW, ghastly is sitting at about $2.78/gal for 87 no-lead here in sunny Pocatello, ID. Can't complain.
Right.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
"A pack of Juicy Fruit, two Swedish fish, and a Pixie Stix, please!"
87 - $2.839
89 - $2.939
91 - $3.009
93 - $3.039
diesel - $2.799
This makes the pricing seem even less equitable in terms of the steps between octanes. Now there is an even 2-point change in octane for each grade, but nothing remotely close to even proce breaks. Common sense would say 7-8 cents per grade increase.
Filled the Ram to the brim, $76.00 worth of diesel... but I won't need any fuel again probably until next Friday. I'd be filing Chapter 11 if I had the Hemi instead of the Cummins.
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The majority of the complainers I see on the news and on the road are of course the full-size trucks and SUV owners. But none of them are doing anything themselves to conserve fuel. They're still foot to the floor, full-throttle from the stoplights, burning rubber.
The majority of those complaining are blaming big oil, Bush, local stations and what not, but none are stating what they are doing to lessen their usage.
An article / commentator / analyst that states there are surplus supplies, demand has dropped slightly, or that the prices have stabilized, should go up anymore and should decrease. Within 24 hours there's a new article or analyst that pops up and states that prices are going to shoot up again because someone's grandmother saw a cloud in the sky, or some other far-fetched reason. And each time it's stated prices are going to go up, it's minimum 20 cents higher than before.
More and more I'm seeing people saying it's not affecting them, but yet the low-income and poor are never the ones being interviewed. It's always the ones driving a higher-end vehicle that are asked about fuel prices. I believe this is giving a false sense of reality because if it is constantly shown that people are being negatively affected by the fuel prices, hell why not keep pushing the prices to the stratosphere?
It's just funny to me.
I also gotta confess though, that with my old '85 Silverado, I tried to go more gentle on it when gas prices shot up, to see if I would get better fuel economy. I got nothing. 10 mpg around town whether I old-ladied it or floored it.
Still, I'm not complaining too much. I could go out and get something more economical to replace it. But considering this truck has gone maybe 9,000 miles in the 3 1/2 years I've had it, it just wouldn't make sense financially. And I'm not going to gou out and spend $16-17K on a brand-new truck, just to turn around and dump a cubic yard of topsoil in the bed! Although once I found out how much that weighs, I learned I should stop doing it with my '85, too!
Yes, I'm considering myself lucky getting the improved mileage. I have an S-10 (V6, auto, 3.42 gear) so every little bit helps. Lastly my route is mostly 2- and 4-lanes having an average speed limit of 45mph, with two small towns having 35mph. So about 60% is 45mph the rest 35mph. But even with the traffic I am still able to get the 21.6mpg. I have yet to take it on the highway so can't confirm what the mileage would be. Sure it takes me longer (5 minutes) to get to the job, but I just leave 5 minutes early which allows me to miss a little more traffic. I also don't let the tank get below 1/4 max so that the hit to the wallet isn't that bad.
I know what you and others are talking about. I thought about buying a used cheap run-about for half a second and decided it wasn't worth it.
I just had 2 cubic yards of topsoil delivered to the house a few weeks ago. No way was I going to put that in the truck! :sick:
last year, i decided to drop my highway speed 5 mph. i have been sticking with although it means i have to drive in the slow lane to not hold up other drivers.