There was an article somewhere, that stated the off-brand gasolines, are NO different than the more expensive, brand name gasolines.

 

Gas in Long Island is around $3.17 for the cheap stuff, gonna go WAAAYYYY up too this summer.....
EVRYBODY NOTE - stay away from Citgo gas. I used to like Citgo, good prices, usually nice gas stations - but they are now controlled by the Venezualan anti-American psycho Hugo Chavez, who now owns most of the company. It's bad enuf that much of our high priced gas money probably funds terrorism in some way, and avoiding Citgo can only do us good.

 

I have news for you. Most off brand service stations are filled with name brand fuel. WAWA for instance is Exxon .

 

Gas is gas is gas is gas. The only difference is the additives that each company adds. There's a thread going about this in the Off Topic forum...interesting reading.

 

sheetz here in palmyra , pa is 2.85 gal ... fill up on a 26 gal. tank = OUCH !! Took all my mods off the truck went back to stock even the exhaust is stock and now i get better MPG.. HUH ?

 

That brings up the question of how legitimate are claims that dual low restrictive exhaust systemsand CAIs improve MPG and performance. Are these mods good or bad? I read where some say the CAIs are causing lagging in the low rpm ranges and many claim a drop in MPG. I read allot that dual exhaust with low restrictive mufflers sound great but have not noticed any real benefit to performance or MPG. So what is it? Good or bad on these mods.

 

my truck is a 2nd gen ram i guess its a different beast. but with the mpg with mods i was getting 15.5 mpg.. so using a quarter tank i drove 100 miles with the truck stock and i just charge the A/C and but on a new fan clutch now im getting 134 miles to the same quarter tank.. I still have the highflow cat on that will never be taken off .. but my mpg did go up..Some mods work some dont some are for show and no go...like the saying goes >>> fool and his money ?

 

It depends on how big your pipes are underneath. The bigger they are, the less gas mileage you get, but on the flip side, the smaller the pipe, the less power. I stayed with the 2.5 inch pipe and I noticed a difference in performance and mileage went up a little bit.

I'm going to start using my bike as a means for transportation for the summer. I'll save huge amounts of money by doing that or I'll just have to get two more jobs to feed both my truck and my wife's minivan, which cost her $70.00 to fill up at COSTCO on a 26 gallon tank.

 

Here's an interesting article off of CNN's website:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/02/mark...ion=2007050216

 

out here in CA there were a couple of small off brand stations that had added some water to get more money out of the people filling up. Yeah, that didn't go well in court.