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Old 04-22-2020, 09:25 AM   #1
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RJ, A long time ago a VP rep told me the price of Race fuel was tied to the Chemical market not the crude oil market. Guess that applies when they want the price high..
I would say that the pricing is not tied to crude oil pricing but their profit margins Are!! I work in refining and I know that all the base components used for blending racing gasoline are basically everything we make. The other components are also things made in the refining process. Some refineries make more petro chemicals than others but they are all blending components that are made in refineries.

Refining companies came under scrutiny some years ago for potential price gouging. This is not what VP is doing but they kinda are. They WILL make more money if crude is down because they can buy all the blending components based on market prices. It doesn't cost near what they charge to make the different blends they produce in general. What we are paying for is their research and engineering that goes into the different blends of fuel.
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With the ever changing landscape of the world, VP is now producing hand sanitizer....
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With the ever changing landscape of the world, VP is now producing hand sanitizer....
Little known fact that VP also produces a perfume and aphrodisiac. I dab a little C12 on the back of my wife's neck and off we go.
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Little known fact that VP also produces a perfume and aphrodisiac. I dab a little C12 on the back of my wife's neck and off we go.
You fortunate bastard.
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You fortunate bastard.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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With the ever changing landscape of the world, VP is now producing hand sanitizer....
That is a smart move. The only item harder to find around here is Isopropyl Alcohol.
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You would think that with the supply being
high and the demand being about zero
the price would drop . Like any other
commodity. But since it not a raw material
that doesn't apply
Not that it has anything to do with this
post but regular gas is .99/gal here
in SW Ohio
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I have always assumed that the cost of the crude oil required was a much smaller percentage of the cost to produce pump gas than it was to produce racing gas.

Is that true?
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I use C11. It's not good for anything.........other than going fast. I'll probably try using C12 on my next computer dream date.
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I use C11. It's not good for anything.........other than going fast. I'll probably try using C12 on my next computer dream date.
Pro tip: My wife is a Latina so she is higher compression than normal thus the use of C12. You don't want to throw a rod at higher RPMs and knock out the bottom end.

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