[2001 ZTS]

Aka,Aug 10 2005, 07:43 AM Wrote:No offense but, I'm not going to go buy more expensive gas just cuz some guy on a forum told me to.
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I'm not just some guy on a forum.

No I won't be able to post a link to some site where a big oil company admits their "dirty little secret".

Just remember:

-octane is only one measure of fuel quality.
-What you buy as 87 more than likely is actually much higher in octane than 87, remember how pumps say 87 minimum?
-Making high octane is VERY hard to do, the sepcifications are so high.
-High octane is CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. It is not the octane that makes it clean it is all the work and effort to refine something of such high quality.
-If while creating a batch of 91+ there is something not to specification a refinery will not "throw it away" they will sell it as something else and often take the opportunity to "cut" it with something crappy.
-Your fuel may have 87 octane but could be a cocktail of off spec Sunoco Gold 94 and Marine Diesel Oil that averages out to 87.
-Such "blends" may average out to 87 "minimum" but you are getting solids, wax, sludge, acids and basically a lot of crud.
-You guys know that bateria, fungus and algae live in diesel right?


Best regards,

Andrew
Superintendent of Special Projects
****** Fuels Inc.


AnthonyD's buddy at the refinery will tell you the exact same thing.