I run anything that I can get 91-93 octane, never had a problem. All the gas around here is 10% ethanol. Many years ago my old 93 GMC ran noticably better on Chevron. I may try some in the bike next time to see if it makes any difference.

 

I tend to run brand gas, with the higher octane. However, I just found out that not every county auditor certifies the octane in the gas. You may want to check that it's done where you buy gas.

If you don't by BP, then how are they going to be able to pay damages to the folks in the Gulf coast area that have had their livelyhoods threatened??

 

+1 I did some work with the company double check.. they do all the pump service around these parts. they do tank inspections, fuel inspections, pump inspections ect.. If the manager is doing his service right (most due).. The gas is going to be fine. Timing might help though.. worst time is supposedly right after the tanker has filled the tank.. (stirs things up in the tank).. while the filters catch most of the stuff, somethings like water can still get by in small amounts ,,, so I was told anyways (didn't do a study on it or anything like that,, or have a career in the study of gas)..

 

Who are these magical other people? The entire industry, large and small is already involved behind the scenes.

Government doesn't have the technology or expertise. They need to stick to clean up and making sure BP pays the bills.

The real problem is industry didn't prepare realistic response plans for something that far below the surface and the government didn't call them on it during the permit process. Nor do I think they could have. It's never happened before. There's no way they could have even known all the technical challenges to stopping a deep water blowout let alone prepare a realistic response plan. It's one of the risks we took in letting industry drill that far out ...

Now that a blowout happened you let the experts in figure out a fix (that would be BP and the rest of the industry) and deal with the fallout afterward.

My 2 cents ... sorry for going WAY off topic. Just get really frustrated when people outside the oil industry think things happen just because of greed, or incompetence, or whatever.

BTW - if you want a *real* answer to any question on the industry give me a PM. I'll try not to tow the company line or the political one.

 

used to like BP... not any more....

 

no sir...citgo is run by hugu chavez. Valero is an American owned company based in san Antonio Texas. Check your facts.

 

I've always been partial to Mobil.

 

Nick1 is correct. Citgo is the American arm of PDVSA - Venezuela's public company. Valero was a mid-sized refiner until about 8 or 10 years ago where they went on a buying spree to become a very large refinery. I believe their focus as of late has been on increasing their retail network.

At the same time many of the 'super majors' such as BP and Exxon have focused on selling off their gas stations to private jobbers. The jobber owns/runs the station but flies a certain companies flag and buys their gas. The thought being gas retail is such a low margin, time consuming business it's not worth the majors time and energy to manage it.
Valero and Speedway stand out as companies going in exactly the opposite direction which I applaud for reasons I won't waste space on here.

 

Cabbage does it to me every time.

 

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