Once again, I like higher octane but with the theory you just gave the only people getting what they paid for are the ones buying 87. The others are having to "trust" gas companies and gas stations to get 89 or 93. Trusting every gas station across America in today's society for me isn't going to happen. Now I'll have to figure the fuel mileage and performance of my vehicle on the octane I "think" I bought last, that threw another wrench in the game questioning their honor system. As far as pennies difference in prices between 87 to 93 octane, .60 cent per gallon difference isn't pennies for me. To make it work cost wise I have to get around 3 more MPG going from 87 to 89 and 6 more MPG going from 87 to 93. Before hurricane Katrina gas went in .10 cent increments, a cost that I could make work for me. Since then it's gone to .30 cent increments. Not sure of the "special" stuff they have to put in it since then but it makes no sense to me. I'll still go by what works for me as everyone should but now I have to "trust" when I figure my MPG and performance that the last gas I got was really what I paid for unless it was 87 octane. Guess I'll never really know for a fact!i work for Marathon and knowing what goes into just staying on spec in a unit with the average cost of 30-50 million per unit for the control system to control it... that little mixing pump... yeah i dont buy that is working correctly. so the difference from plus to premium is peenies so that's why i say i do 93 heck stations at one time were getting busted for sell 87 labeled as 93- that's a big moneymaker!
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