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posted by  someone claiming to be Punxsutawney Phil on  Thu Sep 26 10:23 CST 2002 [RELATED]

Depends.

Two reasons I don't use Brand-X gasoline are that I'm less certain that the octane number on the pump correlates with the octane number of the gasoline in the station's tanks, and because I'm not sure what ELSE is in the station's tanks.

I've had a tankfull of Mobil gas with a parafin-like precipitate out and clog a fuel filter on a SAAB I was told it ONLY happened with Mobil and ONLY on SAABs but who knows.

Presume it was "additives".

Like many others, I think my cars usually runs like **** on Exxon.

That may be psychological, though. I still associate "Exxon" with "Valdez" and have a mental picture of their CEO arguing that Alaskan beaches are normally black and oily.

Reason I usually use Sunoco is it's the only 94 octane available close to both work and home, the Texaco is only 93 octane, and with a turbo with knock sensors I like to have that "extra margin of safety" for passing.

-Punxsutawney Phil






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