gas prices... 4 types of gas

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regular
supreme
premium
diesel

do we really need 4 different kinds of gas? what is the purpose?

get rid of supreme or get rid of regular and premium.

drop one or even two of the gasoline types and keep the diesel.

would that not drop prices? or at least help?
 
I don't think I've ever seen anybody use the medium grade. But then again, I haven't been paying much attention to it. Either you use the Regular or the Premium, there's no need for a middle ground. Hell, both my previous car and current one said they required Premium in the manual. I only put Regular in, and have never had a single problem with either one.
 
The grades are not the problem as much as all the different blends required by different states. Refineries have to make 10-15 different types of gasoline. If they standardized gasoline specs the cost would come down significantly.
 
there are 2 types of gas (excluding diesel) under the ground at the station--regular and high octane--they mix the two in the pump to get the mid grade.
 
what is the percentage of people who put regular grade gas in cars that recommend premium gas?

Especially lately.
 
" I only put Regular in, and have never had a single problem with either one."

As far as I have read, putting regular into a car that suggests premium does nothing to hurt the engine. The only difference is a suggested 5% drop in horsepower.
 
dca, any reason for this? why don't all the states just get on the same damn page?

scott, i don't know.. it just seems if we're making less grades, we're using less oil. it lowers our demand.

i certainly don't know how it all works, so i asked hornfans for information.

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Counting all of the boutique blends, I think there are 50+ formulations across the US depending what time of year it is...

Rule of thumb, for every $10 increase in the price of crude there is a bout a $0.25 increase in the price of gasoline.

The run up of crude is obviously the biggest problem...not the number of formulations---but yea i doubt it helps.
 
goo, demand would not be affected, since we would use the same amount of gas. having fewer options for gas would have no effect on how much gas we need.
 
if supreme is rarely used as opposed to the grades, then no need to continue making it. focus all the supply elsewhere (reg. and prem.)..

i'd be willing to bet the reg. and prem. tanks under a gas station are filled more often than the supreme tank.

don't do this, baby.
 
i just came back to edit that, fratboy. i was sitting on the toilet and realized i completely ignored what was typed.
 
For those of you saying it would not make a difference. It absolutely would. It would not cut the price in half, but the cost of manufacture would decrease by some amount.

As a general rule it is always more cost efficient to make 1 product on a piece of equipment than 10. The more different types of product made the more downtime will be incurred to changeover. That is time you are paying people that gasoline isn't being produced. Hence a higher price. A smaller number of formulations should also decrease the total amount of gasoline needed to meet demand. The reason is that you don't have as many separate sets of inventories needed to supply the market. If inventory complexity is decreased enough you can also use less people to manage it.

To go from 50 formulations to 10, you could probably decrease cost 5%-10%. That is a totally uneducated guess. I don't know the specifics of the gas industry, but I deal with manufacturing/supply systems all the time.
 
I've always put Premium 93% in my car since it says so. I heard that if I used Regular it would cause knocking or something like that. Any truth to this?

Also, I'm in insurance and handle calls from all over the US. I assisted a customer from Wisconsin(I believe) who was asking me about gas prices here. I asked about prices there, and he said Regular was over $4 b/c of the Ethanol gas that is being incorporated up there.
 
Unless your car has a turbocharger or a very specific kind of compression the premium gas is a waste of money. Modern cars have anti-knock even at lower octane ratios. I finally got tired of arguing this with my wife and looked it up.

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The automakers themselves will only commit to a negligible decrease in horspower if you pin them down in it.
 
i have an 06 infinity g35. i fill up with regular...
if i'm somehow missing a bit of horsepower... it aint much because the car moves pretty good.
 
I've always used Supreme b/c that is what is recommended. Maybe I am a sucker but it generally is about 20 cents more than the regular stuff. I've driven 57k miles in 5 years in my vehicle that gets 20 MPG so I have put 2,850 gallons of fuel in it to date.....which works out to $570 bucks more for the premium stuff over 5 years. Not a big hurt on my pocket book.

But if limiting the choices available made it cheaper overall I am all for it.
 
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