Your Favorite Gas?
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Re: Your Favorite Gas?
Originally Posted by lucyloudaisymae
By the way, Hugo Chavez was democratically elected with a much wider margin than our current president!!!--- Chavez poses NO threat to democracy in South America-----Chavez poses a threat to U.S oil prices because the neocons in the White House would like someone in charge of Venezeula who will be friendly to their economic policy through out South America.....I buy Citgo, not only because rather than racking up record profits like Exxon and BP, Citgo donates heating fuel to poor families, including families and the elderly in the northeast U.S. last winter. Also, my car seem to get better milage with Citgo.
This kind of "Give me your lunch money or else" mentality being disguised by the Bush administration as "Meeting the needs of the hungry" amounts to nothing more altruistic than "Protecting the bully from not getting two lunches."
#23
Re: Your Favorite Gas?
Originally Posted by williaea
Mental note to self - Don't reply to topics having to do with politics. Keep mouth shut!
Sorry guys - didn't mean to offend anybody.
Eric
Sorry guys - didn't mean to offend anybody.
Eric
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Re: Your Favorite Gas?
Do high mpg achievers use ethanol or not? I'm not sure that I notice a difference yet between 87 octane fuel from Mobil with 10% ethanol, and Casey's with no ethanol. I would expect the no ethanol fuel to be better, unless it was of poor quality.
#26
Re: Your Favorite Gas?
You can get very good mileage with ethanol in the fuel, it's just not "ideal." I think that the theoretical loss is ~3% of your fuel economy for every 10% ethanol content by volume of the gasoline (but don't quote me on that). This might mean 48.5mpg on the ethanol blend instead of 50mpg on gasoline, which most people won't even notice. Using fuel with small amounts of ethanol only irritates nuts like me because we know there's a difference even if we can't actually measure it.
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Re: Your Favorite Gas?
3% is the empirical average from the EPA. (Also correlated by me in the HAH and Explorer)
Any driver in/around Chicago,Milwaukee, etc has been using E10 gas for years in all grades. Look at their database contributions- perfectly on par with the rest of the nation. But yes, they cheer when they get a chance to fill up with non-ethanol fuel, because they do see a 1-2mpg bump.
WRT premium vs 87, in general the consensus in prior threads is that the best fuel is the lowest recommended by the maker. IF your engine is older or has had some crud in it, THEN a few tanks of E10/premium WILL clean it out, resulting in probably higher MPG afterwards. But then switch back to regular once its cleaned out. "Anti-knock" from higher octane is only applicable in non-fuel injected cars that cannot shift timing.
Any driver in/around Chicago,Milwaukee, etc has been using E10 gas for years in all grades. Look at their database contributions- perfectly on par with the rest of the nation. But yes, they cheer when they get a chance to fill up with non-ethanol fuel, because they do see a 1-2mpg bump.
WRT premium vs 87, in general the consensus in prior threads is that the best fuel is the lowest recommended by the maker. IF your engine is older or has had some crud in it, THEN a few tanks of E10/premium WILL clean it out, resulting in probably higher MPG afterwards. But then switch back to regular once its cleaned out. "Anti-knock" from higher octane is only applicable in non-fuel injected cars that cannot shift timing.
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