OT: Oil companies

[steiner_ca at hotmail.com (Craig Steiner)]

I've run just about every grade/brand of gas in my '88 16V and the only 
thing I ever noticed was the mileage I got.  No noises, acceleration 
problems etc.  I actually tested this out about 2 years ago and I could get 
360 miles on a tank of 93 octane Shell gasoline during highway driving.  87 
octane BP was the worst at 270 miles.  BP was also the worst of the Premium 
gasolines.  310 miles if I remember correctly.  Shell was the best for city 
driving too, averaging about 330 miles per tank.  Now, my tests weren't 
exactly scientific. I'd try to fill up at the same indicator level every 
time and would, on average, take about 10.5 gallons, give or take about .3.  
I think I sampled the different stations enough that most errors probably 
averaged themselves out.

Craig
'88 Alpine White 16V



>From: Tonee Northam <pb3vr6@yahoo.com>
>To: marc.getty@temple.edu, Neptuno <neptunonc@yahoo.com>,Blake 
><blake@clockworm.com>, scirocco scirocco <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: OT: Oil companies
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I agree gas is gas, maybe I should have said that my car tends to run 
>better or worse depending on which station I go to. Maybe I'm getting gas 
>from the almost empty tank from that pump, etc.
>
>Marc Getty <marc.getty@temple.edu> wrote:
>I'm with Bubb on this. Partialy because he scares me just a little bit, and 
>mostly because it is very easy to boycott an oil company that has no 
>stations in your home town! ;-)
>
>Me, I prefer Exxon/Mobil because using SpeedPass to pay is sooooo easy! 
>Unfortunately almost all Exxon and Mobil stations near me are now Russian 
>owned Lukoil stations without SpeedPass.
>
>I'm with the 'gas is gas' folks, ijve never had a bad or even mediorce tank 
>of gass in any of my VWs or my RIP Benz. However, I used to have problems 
>(imaginary/presumed? I dunno) with Sunoco gas on Carb'ed cars. Way back in 
>the day.
>
>-Marc top posting in Illinois
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Neptuno
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:50:30
>To:Tonee Northam
>, Blake , scirocco scirocco
>Subject: Re: OT: Oil companies
>
>My understanding is that gas is gas...SO the Hess station next to work has 
>the best deal and that is where you see me......
>
>EL T
>
>Tonee Northam
>wrote:
>I tend to switch stations, BP Shell, Mobil, every now and then just to see 
>if my car performs better.
>
>Our MV can run on e85 which nobody around here carries, but I just wonder 
>how much corn it would take to fill a 18 gal tank.
>
>Blake wrote:
>i like BP gas - seem to make my machines run better
>
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