"Matthew Keyser" (teisco15)
11/03/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: None
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"Matthew Keyser" (teisco15)
11/03/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: None | 4
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What happened to the 30¢ difference in price between regular and premium?
As I pulled up to fill the tank of my very picky car, I noticed that the difference between regular and premium at this particular gas tank was 70¢. My car takes 93 octane and requires a mild octane booster to fully eliminate pinging and I don’t like using fuel with ethanol in it as its hard on the fuel system. All this means I don’t like to just pull into whatever 7/11 advertises the cheapest prices on the sign next to the cost of a cup of coffee.
I typically fill up at the same station down the road from my house. My station. This station. But it’s not just a problem with this station, nearly every has station around me has a price differentiation of over 50¢ a gallon.
Why are we, the owners of cars that require premium, being forced to pay so much more?
Premium fuel simply does not cost that much more to produce than regular fuel, which leads me to believe that the answer to my question is the most prevalent answer given to people questioning the validity and justification of prices: they’re doing it because they can.
Now it’s not like we can just stop driving because the extra cents per mile it costs to run a car that burns the highest quality juice is weighed out by the convenience of owning and driving your own car.
So this leaves us with a simple dilemma: A. Buy a different car or B. Quit bitching and drive.
And with the weather we’ve been having, I’ll choose option B any day of the week.
TractorPillow
> Matthew Keyser
11/03/2015 at 21:45 |
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Thank you! Seriously it's ridiculous. Here it's usually 50 cents higher. And when you get 13 mpg that matters.
MM54
> Matthew Keyser
11/03/2015 at 21:45 |
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I’ve noticed it too - it always used to be 10 cents between grades, then it became 15, lately I’ve been seeing 20 cents between 87 and 89 (I consider 89 to 93 two steps, since you can get 91).
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Matthew Keyser
> TractorPillow
11/03/2015 at 21:53 |
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200 miles per tank+around 300 miles a week+20mpg if I’m careful+15mpg because I never am+$8 a bottle for the octane boost I use= lots of money just to fund my car’s drinking habit.
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TractorPillow
> Matthew Keyser
11/03/2015 at 22:00 |
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Every time I fill up I say I’m gonna drive more efficiently. Then my car laughs at my intentions and begs for me to push the pedal down harder. I cannot resist her charm.
-this space for rent-
> Matthew Keyser
11/03/2015 at 22:16 |
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I noticed it at BP stations after their big spill. It started at 15 cent jump per grade then spread to other stations and kept rising. Didn’t bother me as much when gas was $4/gal, but back in the $2 range it’s irritating.
for Michigan
> Matthew Keyser
11/03/2015 at 22:19 |
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Been noticing that a lot lately. Seems absurd.
Meatcoma
> Matthew Keyser
11/04/2015 at 09:18 |
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I used to frequent a station and they started upping the difference drastically. Initially it was 24 cents difference and one day it was 60, now I think it’s like 90 cents difference. I’ve been putting in 87 octane because I don’t feel like paying $15/tank more in fuel to get 30 miles per tank. Luckily my car runs fine on lower octane gas.