Gas Prices are going to kill me!!!!, $2.20 Gal Options

[morph]

I just paid $2.20 gallon for gas, and the prices are still going up, every day the price goes up 3 or 4 cents.



Hiedi

[dmenche914]

On the Mercades, 91 octane might be recommended, but a nice modern car like the Mercades should be ok on lower octane, just a little less perfromance, as the computer that controls the engine senses knock from low octane, and retards the timing just enough to stop the knocking. Technology is great some times!

The real problem is for a high compression car that does not have the knock sensor, as the low grade crap gas we get in high tech silicon valley will cause knocking, and the owner must manually retard the timing, increase mixture or what ever.

Last year used to buy 92 octane, now max is 91 octane, can you all believe this crap??? What ever happened to 98 octane, (when did we stop that???)

The oxygenates they ad now also are harmful, as they tend to lean out mixtures in older cars (either in carb cars, or older FI cars, like the 914) You need to richen the mixture by adding more fuel volume than was needed in the past, if you do not, you run lean. And when you make the fix (if you even can on a 914) your milage drops, so you burn more of the damn stuff anyway!!! (True enough, in my "fleet" of a half dozen cars or so, when they switched gas mixures out here, my milage went down about 10%, as was predicted in the news papers)

Ok, I think getting the lead out of gas was good, it was just so toxic, but good greif, many of the stuff they make us put in gas in Nazi California is a bunch of mumbo jumbo that non scientist wacko politicians come up with (like farm subsidizing thru mandated use of alchohol in the gas) There is little logic to the "clean gas laws" makes distribution more expensive, and is driven by political choices, and by persons (elected or appointed) that would rather see all evil cars scrapped so we can all ride busses in their commie socialist paridise.

I truely believe the lack of octane greater than 91 is purposely in place to run older performance cars out of the state, or into museums. I do not understand why a higher octane grade could not be made and be as clean as the so called clean gas we have today. (barring political mandated additives)

At any rate, nice Mercades!

dave

PS to address the monopoly issue of only two owners of Californias gas supply, The politicians have effectivily barred outside compitition by making it too expensive to get into Californias market. They have done this by not approving any new refineries for years, super strict pollution laws, workers comp laws, and numerous "un-freindly to business" laws, high taxes, oh, and special gas, gas that must be different depending on the time of year, and what county you sell it in. Why do business here, when the other 49 states are so much easier????

We are lucky we have to have even one, much less two gas suppliers out here.

dave