Is premium gas worth it?
#71
11-03-2017, 11:30 AM
Ultimate HDF Member
I am in the 1% then. I foolishly fill up with premium, ignoring the extra $0.20/gallon our E0 premium costs, and I ALSO purchase a coffee at the SAME TIME? Not just any coffee, either, but the large. Can you believe I have all this money to waste? I then proceed to check my oil wiping the dipstick with at least a $1 bill, and then toss it in the garbage when done.
#75
11-06-2017, 07:22 PM
Road Captain
#76
11-12-2017, 05:13 AM
5th Gear
Calling in from England, my addition to this interesting thread is largely irrelevant to the fabric of your posts and I apologise for that.
This summer a friend and I were chatting with a retired petroleum engineer at our shooting club. The conversation followed exactly the lines of this thread; supermarket low price fuel, what quantifies quality, major branded fuels etc.
My friend pointed out that in his opinion, at the fuel depot all the tankers delivering to the various petrol station forecourts filled from the same spigot. At that the engineer (retired) floored me by stating "well of course they do, it's the additive that they tip in that differentiates".
Given that my post is clearly representative only of England, could it be that in conversations regarding low and high octane, premium fuel against regular, it may be an issue of not just resistance to detonation but the quality and quantity of additives that serve to clean and protect the upper cylinder as well?
This summer a friend and I were chatting with a retired petroleum engineer at our shooting club. The conversation followed exactly the lines of this thread; supermarket low price fuel, what quantifies quality, major branded fuels etc.
My friend pointed out that in his opinion, at the fuel depot all the tankers delivering to the various petrol station forecourts filled from the same spigot. At that the engineer (retired) floored me by stating "well of course they do, it's the additive that they tip in that differentiates".
Given that my post is clearly representative only of England, could it be that in conversations regarding low and high octane, premium fuel against regular, it may be an issue of not just resistance to detonation but the quality and quantity of additives that serve to clean and protect the upper cylinder as well?
The following users liked this post:
nobodyknowsme (11-12-2017)
#77
11-12-2017, 06:30 AM
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: in a cave at the foothills
Posts: 16,988
Received 14,650 Likes
on
6,423 Posts
Calling in from England, my addition to this interesting thread is largely irrelevant to the fabric of your posts and I apologise for that.
This summer a friend and I were chatting with a retired petroleum engineer at our shooting club. The conversation followed exactly the lines of this thread; supermarket low price fuel, what quantifies quality, major branded fuels etc.
My friend pointed out that in his opinion, at the fuel depot all the tankers delivering to the various petrol station forecourts filled from the same spigot. At that the engineer (retired) floored me by stating "well of course they do, it's the additive that they tip in that differentiates".
Given that my post is clearly representative only of England, could it be that in conversations regarding low and high octane, premium fuel against regular, it may be an issue of not just resistance to detonation but the quality and quantity of additives that serve to clean and protect the upper cylinder as well?
This summer a friend and I were chatting with a retired petroleum engineer at our shooting club. The conversation followed exactly the lines of this thread; supermarket low price fuel, what quantifies quality, major branded fuels etc.
My friend pointed out that in his opinion, at the fuel depot all the tankers delivering to the various petrol station forecourts filled from the same spigot. At that the engineer (retired) floored me by stating "well of course they do, it's the additive that they tip in that differentiates".
Given that my post is clearly representative only of England, could it be that in conversations regarding low and high octane, premium fuel against regular, it may be an issue of not just resistance to detonation but the quality and quantity of additives that serve to clean and protect the upper cylinder as well?
#78
11-12-2017, 06:44 AM
Road Warrior
#79
11-12-2017, 07:04 AM
I am in the 1% then. I foolishly fill up with premium, ignoring the extra $0.20/gallon our E0 premium costs, and I ALSO purchase a coffee at the SAME TIME? Not just any coffee, either, but the large. Can you believe I have all this money to waste? I then proceed to check my oil wiping the dipstick with at least a $1 bill, and then toss it in the garbage when done.
