Rising cost of food rant

[Boy'nBlack]

I'm back reading, and I see some bad info to the consumer. "Premium" is not premium, regardless of state, and has no indication of the amount of ethanol. It's a federal mandate on what Premium is. So if there's 15% in "low grade", there's 15% in Premium.

Premium fuel is the amount of octane, which IS the oxygenator. Lower octane fuel is better all around, and it's a bain that some engines actually HAVE to use it. 87 is recommended, but using more does nothing but rob power. I HAVE to use at least the 90 octane in a 12.7:1 compression engine. That's still about premium, but can get away with not. Ten years ago, it was 78 octane for best power and reliablity with 11.9:1/12.1:1 engines. The suggestion for a 10.1:1 3.7L V6 is 87 octane. I have no need for high 92 Octane fuel in the Jeeps. Do so and I get less power and pay more for it. So it's worth noting what octane need is there, and what premium actually means.

If common fuel is 15%, then unleaded premium with 0% Ethanol is purely un-oxygenated. It's freaking race gas, and worth every penny. Also not DOT legal and should never be bought or sold for highway use. We have a plant in SD, and it shows that 10% is indeed minimal in all gas. So what's probably happening here is what they have to report to the user. It's all E10 at best unless it's a flex vehicle, and thus labeled. Being that SD is one of the cow-toed states...no study from within is reliable.

The sticker is trusted more than the data.

[Boy'nBlack]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

I still have yet to see an ethanol station in Michigan.

No one is safe.

Originally Posted by An Overview of Ethanol Fuel in Michigan

The use of ethanol-blended fuel is on the rise in the United States, and particularly in Michigan where the annual use of such fuel surpassed the 151 million gallon mark in 2003....In Michigan, nearly one-half of gasoline motor fuel has the mix typically set at 10 percent ethanol to 90 percent unleaded gasoline. ...Michigan motorists used an average of 5 billion gallons of gasoline annually in the last three years.