Steve, I am sorry this offended you; it wasn't my intention to make you look bad. Enough has been said already by others regarding my first post, but this one comment tells me you really didn't understand what I meant. I have no better ability to override my human abilities than you or anyone else. There is zero reason to assume that my "trying it" would result in any better data than the report on which I was originally commenting. If I tried it, and then found the premium fuel did, or did not feel more powerful, my opinion, too, would still be a wholly untrustworthy opinion.

My reason for posting was not to criticize you, but to inform you and the many participants here who share your most common misunderstanding of this human condition. We all make better judgments when we recognize what evidence is useful and what evidence is not. It has nothing to do with smarts, or honesty, or character, etc., but everything to do with understanding a most significant frailty of the human mind, and knowing when to distrust yourself because of it. In its most basic form: humans easily recognize patterns where none exist.

-- Alan