Gas prices making anyone reconsider?

[Matt1t]

As far as my understanding is, all gas is refined within the same refineries...

"The only difference between gasoline at one company's fueling stations and gasoline sold by another company is the small amount of additives that some companies blend into the gasoline after it leaves the pipeline and before it gets to their fueling stations."

I guess my main question is, do most here with the Flex fuel option run Flex fuel or regular gas (pick your octane)?

 

[JGinLA]

Just a reminder to keep politics off this thread.

I thought he was referring to Joe Frazier, a great American.

 

[Fless]

As far as my understanding is, all gas is refined within the same refineries...

"The only difference between gasoline at one company's fueling stations and gasoline sold by another company is the small amount of additives that some companies blend into the gasoline after it leaves the pipeline and before it gets to their fueling stations."

I guess my main question is, do most here with the Flex fuel option run Flex fuel or regular gas (pick your octane)?

I run E85 when I can get it in the summer, but not as much in the winter. It can cause hard starts in cold temps, although I think the alcohol mix is less during the winter. Other times I run premium or, not as often, mid-grade.

 

[Miami-Dade]

Thought I heard wawa was top tier.

I thought it would be as how popular they are due to so many vehicles always in there due to the good food they serve inside but the answer is unfortunately no.

 

[ivin74]

The Big 3 are promising to be all electric soon, the battery technology is still years behind for me to stop using ICE cars and trucks. I don't see any of these electric vehicles making it over 100K miles or more like todays trucks, no matter how much maintenance you do to them.

EV's get charged from power plants that depend on crude oil. How is going all electric going to help clean the air or lower the cost of crude oil? Not a very smart decision if you ask me

 

[Sparksalot]

EV's get charged from power plants that depend on crude oil. How is going all electric going to help clean the air or lower the cost of crude oil? Not a very smart decision if you ask me

I just had a similar conversation on another forum. That poster assumed electricity cost is going to stay low until EV usage increases. Ummm, what powered the device he’s posting from…

 

[vcode]

EV's get charged from power plants that depend on crude oil. How is going all electric going to help clean the air or lower the cost of crude oil? Not a very smart decision if you ask me

Say what? Crude oil (or petroleum) is used for less than 1% of all electricity production. Natural gas is about 40% and coal, nuclear, and renewables about 20% each.

 

[annstruck]

Hoping the oil catch can will help me feel like we are operating as efficiently as possible. Can't imagine our coast to coast road trips / working vacations with the dogs in anything smaller. I am glad we found a 14 - except for the lights.

 

[R32driver]

Hopefully high gas prices will crash the super high price vehicle market, I'd like to get a newer silverado but prices are dumb right now

 

[Baja_Bob]

As far as my understanding is, all gas is refined within the same refineries...

"The only difference between gasoline at one company's fueling stations and gasoline sold by another company is the small amount of additives that some companies blend into the gasoline after it leaves the pipeline and before it gets to their fueling stations."

I guess my main question is, do most here with the Flex fuel option run Flex fuel or regular gas (pick your octane)?

I tend to stay away from the E85 fuels to avoid any possible problems in the future, even if the OEM says it's safe in an engine. In my 5.3L the 87 octane works just fine.