This story is archived

Can discount gas crimp your ride? »

Posted by: STONERS 2 years, 6 months ago

Archived 38 0 drops

Gasoline prices hit near-record levels recently, and the government says the average will stay above $3 all summer, sending motorists shopping for lower-price fuel and making them wonder if they're hurting their engines burning the cheap stuff.

Read Full Story at usatoday.com »

Submitted By:

STONERS

Welcome to my profile...I've started a ""STONERS Daily News Group"" Please stop by and have a look and join if you like it ...

This Story is Archived and Commenting is Closed

Comments: 4

Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
STONERS
June 14, 2007, 1 p.m.
Their anxieties have lately been fueled by a $35 million Shell marketing campaign, warning that discount fuel is the petro-chemical equivalent of the road to hell.
And those anxieties are likely to go unresolved, because there seems no easy answer to the simple questions: What is bad gas? How can I avoid it?
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
me_2
June 15, 2007, 5:02 a.m.
Shell is so the one to talk *rhe* they are the WORST here in the GTA for adding water to their gas (but yet they still dont lower the price) pretty bad when you hit a Shell put $20 in and have to put another $20 by the end of the day when at just about any other station we can put $20 and not have to fill up again until the followig week! My cousin works at an auto shop and he says the number one killer right now with the prices being so high is water damage from watered down gas and every person who has went in with severe damage have all said the same thing "we only get our gas from Shell" but when it goes to testing the fuels the research places take the fuel these companies give them...it doesnt mean that is whats in all their stations!
Avg rating: (+5/-0 5)
evelyna
June 15, 2007, 9:25 a.m.
I buy premium. You get better mileage. Also cheap gas makes my engine knock. I think Hess is the best, exxon second.
The cheapest high volume gas is always the worst quality. Dupeoil and Beepeepee rate low with me too. Why no american gas station owners?
Avg rating: (+2/-0 2)
Dionys
June 15, 2007, 12:03 p.m.
Cheap gas from cheap gas stations comes from the exact same processing plants as expensive gas from the expensive stations. There are a limited (very limited - intentionally to drive up proces) number of processing plants. The gas you buy from "Mr. Ed's Cheap Gas" came from the same place as Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, &c.
The only difference may be in the maintenence of their tanks/pumping/filtering systems at the end point.
Premium gas will get you better mileage, but it still works out to be the same amount of $ between buying 100miles worth of premium and 100miles worth of regular.