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Re: Gas Price Change For You
« Reply #270 on: March 30, 2012, 08:12:01 AM »
That is actually done at the distributor.  The station buyer has the option to buy blended or non-blended fuel.  There are stations in Texas selling non-blended 93 octane.  Makes a huge performance difference.

They have to blend at the distribution point as the ethanol does not mix with gasoline and will separate over time.

With the cost of ethanol rising, many station owners are cutting back on the blend.
It is not an "option". If you are in a reformulated zone you get gas reformulated for that zone. You can find border stations that can sell non-reformulated gas, but that is hit and miss due to delivery screwups. I ran a station in Jack County and we were always (2 out of 5 deliveries) getting reformulated regular even tho we were outside the attainment zone.
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Re: Gas Price Change For You
« Reply #271 on: March 30, 2012, 08:38:43 AM »
It is not an "option". If you are in a reformulated zone you get gas reformulated for that zone. You can find border stations that can sell non-reformulated gas, but that is hit and miss due to delivery screwups. I ran a station in Jack County and we were always (2 out of 5 deliveries) getting reformulated regular even tho we were outside the attainment zone.

In this context, "option" means it is not a requirement, by state law, for any gas station to sell blended fuel in Texas.  Now, the EPA has required areas of Texas to sell only blended fuels as they have been tagged under pollution control.

It also depends on the distributor.  There is a local distributor in Grapevine who will take an order for unblended fuel and deliver it.

But you are correct.  There are times when a station will get unblended and other times they get blended.  Then there are times when they get a low blend (< 10%).

I have hit tanks which were full of unblended, when they were not supposed to be unblended.  Easy to tell in the Mini as it loves that unblended fuel.  Gas mileage shoots up 15 to 20%, almost instantly.  I keep going back to that tank, until it is back to blended, then it is off to a station outside of D/FW to fill.  I got a buddy at the distributor who lets me know which stations are taking unblended fuel.  That certainly helps.


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Re: Gas Price Change For You
« Reply #272 on: March 30, 2012, 09:21:02 AM »
Most of fuel around here is blended, but a few stations advertise 100% gasoline.
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Re: Gas Price Change For You
« Reply #273 on: March 30, 2012, 09:29:55 AM »
$3.32 a gallon

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Re: Gas Price Change For You
« Reply #274 on: March 30, 2012, 09:38:08 AM »
It's worse then I remembered, and this graph and info is for the standard 454's.


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