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Do You Buy Gasoline By Brand Name?

Do you buy gasoline by brand name?

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No. It's all the same crap.
 
Whatever is the cheapest at the time.
 
I go to speedway, get gas and a cup of coffee, say Hi to the girl that works nights, then mosey on to work.

My only standard is I have not bought a gallon of BP, at least at a BP station since the spill.
 
Do you buy gasoline by brand name?
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No, not on a usual passenger vehicle, but when I was a mechanic for a stock car racing team it mattered a lot.

Now it's just about price, and that varies all the time.
 
Muhammed said:
No, not on a usual passenger vehicle, but when I was a mechanic for a stock car racing team it mattered a lot.

Now it's just about price, and that varies all the time.
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On a racing platform, brand still doesn't matter, just octane rating, based on compression. Which, around where I live in CT, means I buy Shel gas for the vette (11-1 CR), as it's the only gas station around that offers 97 octane. Most premium gas up here is 93-95 octane...but I can squeeze out just a tiny bit more advance timing by sticking to the 97, without getting detonation.
 
KevinKohler said:
On a racing platform, brand still doesn't matter, just octane rating, based on compression.
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I disagree with that.

If you do some research I'm sure you'll probably agree with me.
 
I have a sports car, high rpm engine, so I do not get gas at the cheap station. With my old car I would have, when I did not need premium gas
 
Yeah, my wife collects Air Miles so we buy gas at Shell.
 
Muhammed said:
I disagree with that.

If you do some research I'm sure you'll probably agree with me.
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Care to give me a starting point?


I'm involved in several car forums, and they have researched this rather extensively. Once upon a time, there were major chemical differences between brands, now? Not so much, beyond octane rating, and in some cases, amount of cleansers, which is added after the gas is delivered. To go further...gas stations get their gas from the same refinery, regardless of brand, and then in some cases (like shell v power) get additives after delivery. Only primary difference is from state to state...some states use different methods to calculate minimum octane rating, which is posted at the pump, and states vary on how much ethanol is allowed.

Literally, the gas truck stops at BJs, fills their tank, then makes a delivery to shell down the street, then Cumberland farm.


But round here, shell is the only one with 97 octane. Down in FL, I used to be able to buy 102. Wish I could get that here.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
I have a sports car, high rpm engine, so I do not get gas at the cheap station. With my old car I would have, when I did not need premium gas
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If I may, what make/model car?

Does an engines rpm range affect compression ratio? I mean to say, a high revving engine has the same fuel concerns a lower revving engine does. Oil is the primary factor for higher revving engines, past the obvious, an engines ballance.
 
KevinKohler said:
If I may, what make/model car?

Does an engines rpm range affect compression ratio? I mean to say, a high revving engine has the same fuel concerns a lower revving engine does. Oil is the primary factor for higher revving engines, past the obvious, an engines ballance.
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Nissan 370z

it is higher compression, not as high as direct injection engines. The oil is a custom ester blend.

I get gas from reputable places because of the additives, specifically
 
I do not and will not buy from Junior Chavez. That's about my only restriction, although during the oil spill I tried to make sure I always hit up BP.
 
cpwill said:
I do not and will not buy from Junior Chavez. That's about my only restriction, although during the oil spill I tried to make sure I always hit up BP.
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Given the nature of the business, where the oil or gas actually comes from that you consume is not always a sure thing when you buy it from a specific retailer
 
I try to fill shell when i can. Do not know but for some reason i think it works better.
 
It depends on what you mean. We buy almost all of our gas from Chevron. Why? Because we have a Chevron credit card and that makes using them more convenient. I have no particular love for or hate for Chevron, they're just the closest gas station to our house and are common throughout the area that we live, therefore we got that card. In the past, we had a Mobil card for the same reason. It's not the name, it's the location that we care about.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Given the nature of the business, where the oil or gas actually comes from that you consume is not always a sure thing when you buy it from a specific retailer
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:shrug: oil is certainly fungible. But I won't buy from Citco, nonetheless.
 
Virtually ALL of the gas comes from the same refineries.
 
All the stations in my area can be seen having their tanks filled by the same Klemm truck lines, delivering the same gas to them all.

I do, however, pay close attention to how well the stations appear to maintain themselves. Less likely to get water in the gas. Also, I am weary of some of our more downtrodden stations that have been cited for pump measurement violations.
 
We buy our gas from base, either 32nd St or Pt Loma. It has always been cheaper (by at least a few cents per gallon) than any civilian station. If necessary though, it doesn't really matter.
 
Often I do use only certain brands, mostly I use Shell. I shy away from Russian and French companies.

I also try always to fuel up in Germany because there the cost of fuel is lower, but that I only do if there is a significant price difference.
 
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