Shoot...I even have this card and never thought about using it this way...

How does it work? Do they send you a 5% rebate check? Or...?

 

OK boy's and girls listen up. I ran an Octance testing lab for a major oil refinery on the east coast.. One of my jobs was to make sure the tha barges going to Baltimore were always 2/10's of an Octane higher when leaving the refinery.. In Baltimore all barges unload into one huge tank for 87 Octane and one for 89 octane. But before the barge is unloaded a sample is first drawn off and A lab in Jessip MD would run the octance sample to make sure that the Octance was within 3/10 of the octane for that tank..So that means that the fuel could be 86. 7 and pass or 88.7 and pass. Did you notice that I said that they unload it into one huge tank. All 87 octane fuel is blended to fedral standards. No one fuel is made the same way on one given day. The blend changs all the time. So If you think that Shell is better the Sunoco, don't you believe it. They also ship fuels on a common pipe line from one end of the country to the other.Mixing fuels as they go. Did you ever notice that a lot of times the tank truck never says the name of the station that you are buying your gasoline from. Or that the same truck delievers fuel to more the one station on his run.

 

I ran 87 my last trip to TN and got 18.3 MPG
I will Email a picture if people don't beleive

 

Silver Eagle, so you're saying these companies are just one big false advertisement?

I think companies claim to have special additives, which is what makes them better than there competition. Could there additives be put in after being sucked out of this one big tank?

Your claims are pretty big.

 

I worked at a Standard service station in the late 70s early 80s and it was the same then. We got the same gas, from the same truck, as the Texaco station down the street. The station owner would add Amoco fuel treatment to the tanks at the station. It was the same fuel treatment you could buy in small bottles over the counter and add to your tank. You can just buy you gas where it's cheap and by a bottle of shell fuel treatment and most likley have the same mixture that's in the Shell station tanks.

 

First off to everyone who's posted on this subject, Thanks. Silver Eagle is definitely stating the truth about the mixing of gasoline. For nine years I worked for a chemical propellant company. We had a lot of dealings with a certain pipeline company. I can state for a fact that the pipelines running accross this country are NOT, I repeat, NOT of dedicated use. What happens is once a shipment of "product A" goes through the line, they will "flush" a certain amount of "product B" through the line to a slop storage tank in which they will sell that product at a much cheaper cost. My company often had a very small percentage of "impurities" reach our storage tank. I should have also remembered about the acceptable sampling results. I put my first tank of 89 in today and hopefully by Friday will have a new Borla Performance exhaust system installed.