my service manual says dont put methanol in my fuel tank... so what brand name sells this ****... texaco... shell... arco... is there any fuel brand name i should avoid?

 

you're kidding, right?

 

Get your gas wherever you want, I use 93 octane only. Some places carry 92 as there highest grade. Methanol is used for racing fuels and such, so you won't see that at just any gas station. You may have got it confused with ethanol, now days most gas stations have 10% ethanol as a additive.

 

hey jeff
thanks for busting my *****. sure must be the reason i keep comming back to this web site...... maybe learn a little something and get my ***** busted. yeah... thats it

 

Try Marathon or Shell, both sell non-oxygenated fuel. I've run a lot of
regular unleaded and premium unleaded but seems to run a little better on
the non-oxygenated. Maybe just me but there is the option.
Mark

 

No ethanol in my neck of the woods yet that I know of. The only fuel I know not to use around here is Shell Nitrogen Enriched fuel. I thought there was something wrong with the scoot the first time I used a tank of it.

 

Dude, ya gotta grow a thicker skin in case you ever (God forbid) lay her down!

 

That's funny, down here in Florida 93 V-Power Shell Premium unleaded is all I run. Bike runs great on it.

 

Just some interesting info:

The following fuel companies use 100% OPEC fuel, with the exception of CITGO, which is Venezeulian, but they hate us too.
Shell, Cevron/Texaco,Exxon/Mobil,Marathon/Speedway, Amoco. They average imports from OPEC at 5,517,000 barrels a day....you do the math.

These companies listed nest use 100% NON-OPEC fuel, a fact. NO $ to OPEC from:
Sunoco, Conoco, OA Sinclair,BP/Phillips (obviously since they are in the gulf) Hess, ARCO, Maverick, Flying J, Valero, and Murphy OIL USA (which is sold at Wal-Mart)....

Perhaps consider whose pockets your gas money is going ultimately when you choose whatever grade of gas you prefer...hopefully 91 octane or better.

 

Sunoco is the only one on that second list I'd consider using. Also, once the oil is refined and into the national distribution system you can't tell whose gas you are using. It all comes through common pipelines to the terminals. When the truck pulls up to the terminal to fill you don't know whose gasoline is going in that tanker. Could be Shell, could be Conoco, there's just no way of telling anymore after it's been co-mingled. What makes it Shell gas, or Texaco, or whomever's is the additive package that is manufacturer specific which gets dumped into the truck seperately. So it's a noble thing to try and not buy OPEC or Venezuelan gas, but it's almost a physical impossibility to actually do it.