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Maintenance & Repair What about fuel types & gas mileage?
281 messages, Last post on Sep 22, 2009 at 3:52 PM
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Replying to: shipo (Jul 15, 2007 6:33 am) I thought after the Katrina fiasco they encouraged putting alcohol (ethanol) into more and more of the fuel across the country to increase the usage of ethanol (read: improve profit for big companies manufacturing ethanol from corn). I noticed that our pumps used to have a sticker indicating the content COULD contain up to 10% ethanol from some companies who included the ethanol in previous years. Those disappeared. I've not yet tested the name brands for ethanol in our area. I avoid those brands who include ethanol as a technique for reducing quality. I heard a tanker driver say that only 5 Shell stations used pure gasoline in his delivery area. It used to be Speedway, Clark, and other off brands that had ethanol disclaimers on their pumps in this area of Ohio. The use of ethanol reduced the cost per galloon so these stations sold ethanol gas at a price equal to the regular gasoline and made a higher profit per gallon because the ethanol doesn't pay state tax and maybe federal tax. I believe the ethanol gasoline gives lower miles per gallon.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 15, 2007 7:23 am) Here in the Boston area we had no ethanol infrastructure for a long time and as such we were allowed to get away with non ethanol fuels until about a year ago. When they hit, both of our cars immediately started returning about 5% fewer miles per gallon. Grrr. Best Regards, Shipo
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Replying to: shipo (Jul 15, 2007 8:23 am) This states that 50% of fuel in US contains alcohol. governors' conference This states a minimum amount of renewable fuels (ethanol) that will be used. Maybe this was the required ethanol use that I was recalling. Rather than percent of fuel needing to be alcohol (ethanol) it states a quantity of ethanol to be used.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 15, 2007 8:38 am)  An interesting point. None of the New England states sent a representative, not one. Hmmmm... Best Regards, Shipo |
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Replying to: shipo (Jul 15, 2007 8:39 am) I noticed that i get better Gas Mileage than from Ethanol Based Gas. Does anyone agree or disagree?
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Replying to: oluade76 (Aug 20, 2007 1:52 pm) A few points: - Ethanol is an blending agent that is used as an oxygenate - Techron is Chevron's additive package to help keep fuel systems and the upper end of the engine clean - The two are not mutually exclusive - If you find fuel that is not an Ethanol blend it is almost a sure bet that your car will get better mileage with it (Techron or no) as compared to when you are running E10 (Techron or no). Best Regards, Shipo |
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| I bought a 2007 Jeep Compass just recently. I'm getting around 14 to 15 mpg's which is not the 23 to 26 mpg's advertised on the window sticker. Dealer claims it's the oil companies putting more ethanol in gas which is lowering the mpg's. What can I do? | |
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Replying to: jl49 (Sep 24, 2007 12:45 pm)
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