Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Its about $80 in Chicago and going back up everyday!

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Knoll's mother ran a gas station for years, so he knew all about the govt. excise tax deal.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Why would anyone want to live there?

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

I was thinking the same thing! Jim:rolleyes:

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Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Welcome to local "boutique" gasoline. The Chicago area, according to the EPA, requires its own specific blend of gasoline, and only that blend may be sold in that area. Any company selling another blend without a special exception issued by the EPA could be fined millions of dollars. If they can fine a muffler shop $50K to $500K over one catalytic converter, imagine what they could do to a company over a few hundred thousand gallons of gasoline.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

It looks like the makers of that particular blend of gas must have donated a fair amount of cash for Hope and Change. Why isn't that a surprise?

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Actually, summer gas is required in most major urban areas and the requirement dates back to 1995.

Jim

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

That is true.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

That wasn't a gas station. That was the world headquarters for Torco Racing Fuels.

Jim

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

It's "oxygenated" fuel, and it is required in the 6 county area here.

My shop is 70 miles south of my house. When I fill up down there my truck will pick up 2 mpg usually.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

That E10 crap costs about 2 MPG also. More detonation prone too. Only a good deal for the corn farmers.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Most gas in the US is E10. They dont even have to tell you that they have blended in the ethanol . The EPA is starting to push E15, but supposedly only for later model cars.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Round here they do have to tell you. Stickers on the pumps. Several stations here locally are still selling straight gas. My wife's Lexus shows a consistent tank average of 21 MPG around town on straight gas. 18/19 on E10. It averages 28 highway, 25/26 on E10.
My old gas motor home, towing the race car, got 7 to 8 on straight gas. 5 to 6 on E10. 2 MPG there was also 25%. :-) in Texas the pumps said "May contain up to 10% Ethanhol") according to my mileage down there I never bought any that did not.

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

All the stations around here have the same stickers "May contain up to 10% Ethanol." I don't think you could find straight gas locally.

There was a great deal of discussion about increasing the amount of Ethanol in our motor fuel, which would be bad for older vehicles not designed to run on it. It looks like that might not happen because of the damage to this years corn crop because of the drought and the resulting higher prices for everything made with corn. One of the original sales points to using the Ethanol was that it was cheaper than petroleum, but I think they may have a hard time proving that now!

Lew

Re: Evan Knoll what a loser!
 

Hope your right Lew. That stuff sucks. Had to back the timing up for my daily driver Trans Am. It pings on E10, but some started selling straight gas again. Yippee. :-)