Gas is 1.75 here in North Cincinnati

 

Hey bro, I have talked to you before on here. You dont happen to have Camo seat covers do you? I thought I saw your truck the other day.

 

we're below 90cents/L here in edmonton...and its a long weekend and they havent jacked the prices.. yet

 

The government has its hand in the pockets of big oil. The government controls the prices of oil, and if you watch during every election, the price of oil drops. WAY down. Then right after the election, it climbs right back up to where it was and beyond. Once the oil companies get us comfortable buying gas again, they go up. Remember when $175 was outrageous? Now $2.50 is a bargain! Pretty soon $5 will be outrageous, and $3.50 will be a bargain.

 

I just paid $1.89 for 89 Octane.
I run 89 because of the higher compression and advanced timing on my rebuild...

 

$2.27 is the cheapest I've seen around here. Probably cheaper in other parts of the region. I'm not complaining, although it sucks that the gas is only cheap because of a global recession.

 

Glad to see somebody realizes what's going to happen soon.


I saw $2.49 here on Long Island yesterday, thought that was a bargain, now I see a lot of you guys are paying below $2, I haven't seen that here in years.

I agree with everyone else, you don't NEED to run 87 unless you have a pre-ignition problem. People think they are putting "cleaner" gas in or gas that will clean the fuel system, that is BS, 90% of people don't understand Octane.

I have to use 93 in my 3VZE, it pings like hell with 87 and still some with 89. It's got 200K on the original block, timing is good, so I assume there is a decent amount of carbon build up in the combustion chambers that is causing my pre-ignition.....the oil consumption problem isn't helping that either, oil lowers octane when it's mixed with gas, so I'm probably at like a 91 or something when I use 93, probably at like an 85 or lower when I use 87.

I'm now used to only looking at the "Premium" when I pass the station, I don't even look at the "Regular" anymore. Costs about $3 or $4 more per fill up, small price to keep it from pinging.