Gasoline Question

[Bon]

I talked with my brother earlier, and he told me that the best gas to use for my car are BP gas and Texaco gas. He said Exxon and Chevron should be my next bet, and to stay away from companies like 7-Eleven, Valero, and any other non-branded gas, because they put a huge load of dirt in my engine.

While I believe his points are valid, I find that the best gases he suggested are really more costly. So, I was hoping that the great minds here at the Pavilion would give me suggestions on whether I shoudl back my brother's choice, or stick with some other kind of gasoline for my car (because I deliver Chinese food and pizza on a daily basis).

[Perversion]

Re: Gasoline Question

Pour some corn squeezings in your tank.

[Asch the Bloody]

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Buy a Back to the Future car. =)

[Bon]

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Pour some corn squeezings in your tank.

My car only tolerates unleaded fuel...plus I just bought my car last week.

[The Toecutter]

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I talked with my brother earlier, and he told me that the best gas to use for my car are BP gas and Texaco gas. He said Exxon and Chevron should be my next bet, and to stay away from companies like 7-Eleven, Valero, and any other non-branded gas, because they put a huge load of dirt in my engine.

While I believe his points are valid, I find that the best gases he suggested are really more costly. So, I was hoping that the great minds here at the Pavilion would give me suggestions on whether I shoudl back my brother's choice, or stick with some other kind of gasoline for my car (because I deliver Chinese food and pizza on a daily basis).

Gasoline is gasoline.

There difference is in the additives. The cheap **** you can buy at a Quick-Trip or 7-11 doesn't generally contain any more or less impurities than the **** you buy at Chevron or BP.

However, additives like Techron(Chevron adds this) and any percentage of ethanol add to the price. Some cars, using ethanol can corrode the rubber components within the engine or clog fuel injectors, but the vast majority of cars made after the late 1980s won't have any problems.



BTW, stay the hell away from Chevron/Texaco if you can at all avoid it. They have used their clout to stifle the Nickel Metal-Hydride electric vehicle battery and this single action has prevented medium-sized businesses from getting an affordable, long-range electric car into the marketplace. The people running that company deserve the same treatment they(and BP) gave to a bunch of African villagers in the 1970s-1990s...

[Asch the Bloody]

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You a petroleum engineer or something? You seem to have good knowledge of this.

[Bon]

Re: Gasoline Question

Gasoline is gasoline.

There difference is in the additives. The cheap **** you can buy at a Quick-Trip or 7-11 doesn't generally contain any more or less impurities than the **** you buy at Chevron or BP.

However, additives like Techron(Chevron adds this) and any percentage of ethanol add to the price. Some cars, using ethanol can corrode the rubber components within the engine or clog fuel injectors, but the vast majority of cars made after the late 1980s won't have any problems.



BTW, stay the hell away from Chevron/Texaco if you can at all avoid it. They have used their clout to stifle the Nickel Metal-Hydride electric vehicle battery and this single action has prevented medium-sized businesses from getting an affordable, long-range electric car into the marketplace. The people running that company deserve the same treatment they(and BP) gave to a bunch of African villagers in the 1970s-1990s...

Well, I usally do either BP or Exxon gas. Texaco: sometimes.

[The Toecutter]

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You a petroleum engineer or something? You seem to have good knowledge of this.

Hell no. I'd never work for a petroleum company; I'd rather see said companies die outright given what they've done.

I'm an electrical engineer.

Well, I usally do either BP or Exxon gas. Texaco: sometimes.

That's the thing with buying gasoline. No matter where you go, it's always dirty.

BP has aided in the massacre of thousands of Nigerian villagers and with the help of the U.S. and other first world governments, installed a family of dictators in that nation who would ensure that Nigeria's people were always trapped in poverty so that they'd be less inclined to fight back. BP has also turned Iran into the theocracy it is today by funding a coup(along with the U.S. and British governmetns) to oust a democratically elected president in 1953, replacing him with the Shah who killed a whole hell of a lot of people and turned Iran into a police state. Why? Iran's people no longer wanted the oil company to extract all the wealth out of their country.

Exxon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding think tanks and propaganda campaigns in an attempt to discredit scientific research on Global Warming. One of the few nations this campaign worked in was the United States. They put out blatant myths such as "volcanoes output mopre CO2 into the atmosphere than our cars", "antarctica releases more CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind outputs", "the temperature rise versus CO2 concentration has no correlation", and other BS. The real truth is that scientists concede with a 90% degree of confidence that man-made emissions is the largest factor in global warming. There are some dissenters within the scientific community, but they are very rare and dissent not on the basis that the research is false, but that the research doesn't approach the 95% degree of confidence that is typically the scientific standard.


These same oil companies pushed our government to go into Iraq and kill over 600,000 people. These same oil companies are trying to have members of Greenpeace detained on charges of 'economic terrorism' because their protests threaten to disrupt revenue to them. These same oil companies are largely the reason today that we don't have alternative energy widely available, as the technology and manufacturing cost came around in the 1990s, some would argue even earlier.

And its these same oil companies that will probably be the death of most of our planet.

[jspaceman]

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You a petroleum engineer or something? You seem to have good knowledge of this.

thats terr.

he is pretty much a genius.

you wouldnt happen to have an old
smoke detector around would you?