Best gasoline?

I've ben to wisconsin, there was a choice of Gas or blended ethanol

 

The best gasoline????

Would be Sunoco 260 for 97 cents p/gal.

 

Picky point: Gasoline is a liquid, Gas is not.

 

**************************************I know of none in my area or along any interstates and have better things to do than drive thirty miles or so to find one, and that's not the point. The point is ethanol is a waste of taxpayers money and the drivability of our vehicles. Iowa and Wisc, boy do you get around. Are you confined to corn growing states, cause through out the south and south east it's as rare as a republican farmer!

 

"it's as rare as a republican farmer!"

Now that's funny!

 

For my DD, the best gas, is the cheapest gas

For my OT mopar muscle car,

I used to be able to "appropriate" Sunoco Maximal 116 octane

 

Only two words come to mind: REASONABLY PRICED.

 

Man, it's hard to find ethanol-less gas up here in canada. I'm a happy camper that my ride doesn't give a damn what I feed it as long as it goes boom, but a few of my friends who daily boosted vehicles have to drive 10 min out of town to get a tank of gas. I used to trust shell, but the octane varied so much with their premium that it's just not worth it anymore.

 

I don't buy Citgo or "no name" gas even for the lawn mower.

 

My point is ethanol, not where the gas came Mr. Know it all! Get a life. I mean that directly, not loosely!

 

...and here I always thought that Texans were polite and courteous folks...
You're certainly en***led to your own opinions, but you aren't en***led to your own facts.

 

All the old car guys around my area go too the airfield and use plane fuel is that good for the car ?
They told me not too tell

 

The vast majority of it, if not all of it, sold by those companies is from Oklahoma crude. The two refineries used by the three are in Oklahoma, and those are fed by crude from OK wells...so I'd say yes.

 

amen willbe.....im from iowa, and cry babys there are plenty

 

I really don't want to know where they get theirs.

 

I worked for one of the largest pipelines in the United States for several years (Explorer Pipeline) it is owned by 7 different oil refinery groups. On each Batch that we shipped from 25000 barrels up to 300,000 Barrels we had to test the octane ratings and several other tests on the front, middle and rear of each batch. The only Gas that was the best was Shell and Phillips they had the highest octane ratings and the cleanest gas out of all them. The cheapest gas from Marathon. I do my fillups now on Shell with them I get 2 mph per gallon better mileage. Trust me I do my research. I also add Regane from Gumout every 3000 miles it increased my 3/4 ton truck from 17 MPG to 19 MPG. Ethanol for Corn we get 4 gallons per acre. With Texas wildgrown sunflowers we get 114 gallons per acre.

 

Flower Power! I like it. Save the corn for Frito's.

 

What he said...mostly. Regular gasoline in the US is fungible, meaning it meets standard specs for vapor pressure, boil in points, gravity, viscosity, octane and so on. Their additive packages are the main differences. Most premiums are also fungible. I know Amoco Ultimate, now sold by BP, is a propriatary formulation, due to its unique distillation and reforming processes. I blended and tested the stuff for 25years. There may be other propriatary blends out there that I don't know about.
Octane ratings are the same, worldwide. Waukeshau engines builds the test engines in Wisconsin and ships them worldwide. The number posted on the pump is àn average of
the research and motor octane tests. See this link for complete information: http://www.astm.org/COMMIT/SUBCOMMIT/D0201.htm It will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about octane testing.

 

Yup, why build low compression engines? Even my new company car has issues with 87 and ethanol blends.And no, it is not better coz the number is bigger. It is based on my vehicles running smoother, cleaner plugs, better Economy plus a noticeable difference in throttle response, ie faster revving etc. On the diet fuel the cars and bike feel flatter and less responsive.

 

Lighten up, Francis.... The facts are out there for everyone to plainly see. Don't take my word, or anyone else's. Do a little unbiased research. What's your beef with me, anyway? My original post was not aimed at you personally. If you want to whine or ***** or cry, send me a private message so that this thread doesn't go any further off topic.

 

Ed is correct here, the percentage of crude that comes to us is very low from the middle east, Canada and Venizuela are our biggest suppliers of import crude. At least they were the last I checked.

Without quoting everyone here there is no reason to pick on the farmers over alcohol in our fuel. If a corn farmer can make more money from alcohol than from pigs more power to him. That is kind of how capitalism works I believe making the most from your product has always been a very acceptable business plan.

Moving away from Farmers and alcohol for a moment to subject matter a little less polarizing let us suppose that one of you is selling nuts and bolts in bulk, now plan A nets you $.80 per unit and plan B nets you $1.02 per unit, neither plan is going to land you in the federal penitentiary or is unethical in any way. Which plan do you choose?

 

Some interesting info here. The links to research and the first hand testimonials from those who work in the field are great. The political stuff gets old fast though guys, we all know a lot of you hate ethanol, and that a similar amount of us Midwest folks have learned to make the best of it. Lets not get another thread closed because of the bickering.

 

http://pure-gas.org/

You can look here for non alcohol gas.

 

4 gallons of ethanol per acre?? holy **** you guys get poor yields. It takes a bushel to make 2.8 gallons of ethanol. In Iowa we get somewhere around 200 bushels to an acre when theres not a drought. 200 times 2.8 = 560 gallons per acre. And you guys only get 4????

CHECK YOUR FACTS PEOPLE.....



And by the way, ethanol is not the future. Just a bandaid. After researching on the net I find some saying 465 gallons per acre.