Whats your local gasoline price?

[cauzomb]

You do realize that there is a huge misconception amongst people that the higher the octane of the gas, the better/faster it is? Cars are designed to use a certain grade (octane) for optimum consumption and for most cars it is the regular unleaded (87), putting a higher octane pretty much means you are pissing away your $$, simple as that.
Motorcycles on the other hand, could actually benefit from higher octane as their engines make use of the higher octane and using lower octane gas could actually effect their performance but not so with cars built in the last decade or so...

I'm not worried about it; I know what the ratings are for :P

[TurcoLoco]

I'm not worried about it; I know what the ratings are for :P

Oh, I knew you were aware, never in my mind I had a doubt!

Well, anyhow, to your question, the price difference leads believe to think that higher the rating the better the gas...

[cauzomb]

Chevron on mission street 9506* santa cruz hit $4.01 a gallon for premium

[cauzomb]

Oh, I knew you were aware, never in my mind I had a doubt!

Well, anyhow, to your question, the price difference leads believe to think that higher the rating the better the gas...

well, it may be more usable for engines that have higher baseline compression.. if you are using low rating gas that is prone to pre-ignition, or ping/detonation, the computer will retard the timing and instead of the expanding gasses pushing the piston they get wasted as heat out the exhaust, which would decrease the fuel economy by a certain amount for the time that the computer is acting on the timing... going up a long hill with 87 in a car that says use 91+ could possibly cause the exhaust gasses temperature to skyrocket and damage the valve seats, or overheat the head and blow a head gasket..

[cauzomb]

Gorda, south of Big Sur, reported to have charged $5 per gallon for gas.. They may be the only shop in town, so they charge whatever they want.

[mrweasel]

premium is still "holding" around $3.45-$3.50 here

[TurcoLoco]

Summer of 2005, crude oil cost just under $70 a barrel (which had increased by 40% form previous years already). The national average for regular unleaded was $2.619.
Today, crude oil costs over $102 a barrel an expected to go over $110 real soon. The national average for regular unleaded is $3.26 and expected to go over $4 in the near future -not looking good at all-!

According to the Camarillo, California-based survey, drivers in the San Francisco area paid the highest price in the country, an average $3.66 a gallon for gas, while drivers in Newark, New Jersey, paid the least, $3.03 a gallon.

[whip]

Regular is 3.21 here.


These prices suck!

[Precidia]

so true, so true

[cauzomb]

LOL! nice one