Ferrari Mailing List: Gasoline

[stephen (stephensherman44]

Is all gasoline the same even if it is branded the same.

In Kansas they don't have to tell you if there is Ethanol added.

I went to a movie in Olathe 2 weeks ago and while driving through Gardner KS noticed a Shell station the made a point of NO ALCOHOL.

So I said what the hell and filled up. The price was 5% more than Alcohol SHELL stations.

 

The Subaru I use for my road trips displays the it is getting 25 mpg. 

 

After a few miles it was showing 30 mpg, thats a 20% increase.

 

I was in Gardner today (took my wife to the movie and lunch for our 44th anniversary) and filled up again at the NO ALCOHOL SHELL station and when I got home the display showed 31.3 mpg.

 

I talked to station owner, and he was proud that he does not have any alcohol in any of his grades of gasoline.

He told me it is difficult to get no Alcohol because most suppliers don't have enough gasoline in the tanker ( it is mixed when it is pumped into the tanks at the station) to supply no alcohol - even regular (87) has ethanol.

 

He went on some lenght about how much more gasoline was being used by blending and he did not mention the gasoline being used  to grow and harvest the corn.

 

Made since, until there is NO IOL.

 

 

Stephen
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