I have been using Stop and Shop gas (93) mainly because i get the discounts from shopping there for groceries (i actually pumped 93 for 2.19/gal last week , no joke, i live w/ my gf and we spen about 150-200 on groceries a week). I also have a shell, sunoco, mobil, and such near me as well.

 

no BP?

 

Shell V-Power


If nott hen Sunoco.

 

where's costco ?

 

Lol sorry I only put the stations that I am used to seeing here in the NE area, but I suppose costco would fall under the "grocery store" catagory w/ BJ's

 

Used to get Chevron only when I was in Cali, then BP when I was in Miami. Now just V-power from Shell.

 

I put in a tank of V Power or two a month (or when I expect to be driving the car hard), and use 87 the rest of the time. I usually go Hess because the station is closest to my house and has the best prices.

 

Shell V-Power whenever possible. Had to settle for Mobil once.

 

Curious, I actually have heard a LOT of people using Shell .... is there anything special about their "V-Power" that makes it so popular. I mean yea it has some detergents and what not in it, but so does Mobil Super Plus +.... I remember that before shell was popular for rotaries because they were one of the last ones that were mandated to use ethanol in their fuel.

 

If you wanted a poll for the N.E. U.S., you should have placed this in your regional forum. BP added. Costco would go under the grocery store selection.

 

My mistake, thanks

 

No Exxon? How can you have a thread about oil company products without a double cross?

Ken

 

Arent exxon and mobil the same company ? I know i know i completely fubared this poll. lol

 

We don't have any fancy gas stations here....I just get to go to convenient stores...Conoco ftw.

 

Yes. It's now ExxonMobil. Kind of full circle. When the trustbusters split Standard Oil a century ago, two of the major parts became Exxon and Mobil. I guess trustbusters are not what they used to be.

Where I live all the Exxon stations are still Exxon, and Mobil stations are now Sunoco. I have not yet figured that one out.

Don't worry about getting dumped on over the poll itself. Eventually this will turn into a gas mileage thread, and you'll get pounded for that.

Ken

 

I usually go for BP. Why do so many people choose Shell?

 

Where I am, no other choice anymore. It used to be Texaco, Shell and Esso. Then it was Texaco, Shell, Exxon. Then now just Texaco and Shell. Texaco is major crap btw.

 

Shell V-Power only in my rotaries. There was a discussion on here several years ago and one of the posters was a Shell engineer. He made a good case for the suite of additives that they add to V-Power, so I always use it unless I am close to running out and can't find a Shell station. However, in addition to Shell, there are a dozen or so companies that subscribe to specific standards for additives. If you want more info do a search of the forum.

Edit: Actually more than a dozen. Check out this site:
http://www.toptiergas.com/retailers.html

 

Where is QT?!

 

Gasoline is like a cocktail of flammable fractions out of crude oil distillation, and what doesn't distill they can crack out of longer molecules. When winter comes they change crude distillation to make more long molecules (diesel and heating oil), and in April they start making lower vapor pressure gasoline for summer gas that won't evaporate and pollute the air so easy.

Also, all crude oil has different organic molecules so i think gas has differences from every area, even if its the same brand. Our Exxon gas in West Texas was made by Shell, but with some Exxon additives to make it different, but not neccessarily better. I sold it, but my Ford F150 would foul injectors every 40k miles, and I'd have to run 2 bottles of Techron to clear it up. At oil school Exxon even said Techron was maybe the best cleaning additive on the market.

So my favorite is now Chevron, but the Texaco next door always has price war with Wallyworld and it has Techron in its gas by way of chevron merger, and I get good results out of Texaco.

I watch gas buddy or any other price map when I go some where, and buy best branded gas for the money.

I was tracking at Eagles Canyon Raceway north of Decatur, Texas, and used the Sunoco 93 octane race gas at that track. I needed to keep topping off my RX8 to fix that pesky fuel surge, and I was happy to pay about 15cents a gallon more for that real gas rather than refill reformulated gas when I got back to DFW.

 

I'm right here!
*wink*

 

Yep thats actually what I read a while back, that Shell VP is one of the best concoctions for a rotary engine.

 

Shell VP advertises better with performance cars. Take Ferrari for example.

Besides that VP is superior and I know Shell Engineers.

 

shell when i can. chevron in a pinch

 

You basically get the performance of a 99 or 102 octane gas from a 93 octane gas.