it is cheaper to add the stuff to your own tank. They are trying to charge you 5 bucks for a buck of product
This is odd behavior. You only need the octane that the manufacturer recommends for the vehicle. Buying a higher grade will not help performance, but buying a lower one than recommended will. Price should have nothing to do with the buyer's decision.
Just got back from the gas station -- noticed that diesel fuel was at 3.09 a gallon. Now, I haven't seen that before.
The media is pulling out all the stops to get people in a frenzy over gas prices. They love a crisis (Jimmy Carter must have been a dream). When gas went over $1 in 1977, the equivalent in today's dollars is $3.81/gallon. Not that I don't care about gas prices, but I don't see it as anything to scream about, either. The price of the car itself, the insurance, and maintenance cost a whole lot more.
If the oil companies continue to show sky rocketing profits, I think they will be investigated by Congress.
don't worry, the oil companies will solve this problem - they will raise the price of regular, claiming "too many people have switched to buy regular, we are running low".
My supercharger requires that I burn 93 octane. I'd ruin the engine otherwise.
The cheapest grade of fuel works just as well as the spendy stuff. There are only a few auto's out there that require higher grades, and to all of the people that own them it isn't that big of a deal to pay a little more. A drop in the bucket.
This sounds like attempted conditioning. There really isn't a good reason for the current oil prices. Inventories have been generally higher than the historic norm, but the prices have kept getting bid up. The one exception is that recently, there has been a slightly lower inventory of unleaded gasoline. On the other hand, distillate inventories are way up, but diesel fuel prices are nevertheless insanely high. Go figure.
It's going to get worse as Peak Oil impacts.
Ah, for the old days of 101 octane. Back then you needed more octane you just dumped more tetra elthyl lead into it. Bingo, no more knocking.
Shucks, didn't hurt anyone but the ghetto kids playing near the highways, breathing all the "leaded air" into their lungs. Trouble with that was, it lowered their IQs and they grew up to be DIMocrats. /semi-sarcasm
I've never used anything but regular gas. It gets the job done.