I don't know anything about cars and I am just fortunate to have learned how to drive. My husband falls in the same category. We have been advised many times by (different) gas station attendants to fill our tank with premium instead of the prescribed unleaded gasoline. Their reason is the power that the premium gas could give the engine. In the long run, it is more economical to use premium gas than unleaded gasoline. But our apprehension is the complication that might occur. What if the car's engine develops a problem? There's even a sticker in the gas tank that says "unleaded only" so logic tells us to just follow what the sticker says.
@Corie Henson Geez! Corie, are you telling me that gasoline sold as "premium" there still contains lead? I was under the impression that adding lead to gasoline had been banned worldwide! Only a forum such as this one could communicate facts of most significant value to the mass of thousands of respondents! I am grateful you mentioned this. Here in the States we have "regular unleaded" and "Premium unleaded", but the difference lies in compounding of the two: the "Premium" has more Octane blended into it, as well as additional alcohol. Lead contamination of the World's Environment has been shown to be the result, mainly, of "leaded" gasoline, introduced 90 or more years ago. We obviously do not want lead in our air, water, food, anywhere that it might enter our bodies. Lead was also used exceedingly extensively in paint used in homes. That lead has resided in countless millions of homes worldwide, adding to the body burden of lead carried within. Lead is not as serious a poison as Arsenic or other "heavy metals", but should be avoided if possible. Note: Bullets are made of lead. One joker quipped that if the bullet don't kill 'ya, the lead in it will! Frank
@Frank Sanoica, that's how I understand it - the premium gasoline here has lead content which gives it the power, that is according to the attendant. Maybe that's why the color of the pump's hose is green for the unleaded to mean clean fuel while it is red for the premium gasoline. The premium is slightly expensive than the unleaded gas. But they say that premium gas is marginally cleaner then diesel. Well, diesel is the fuel of big vehicles like buses and trucks and proof is the black smoke in their behind.
@Corie Henson , you may want to read this link. HERE It lists only 6 countries that in 2011 were allowed to sell leaded gas. Your country isn't one of them. But even those six weren't supposed to be using it by 2013.
When you get down to the "brass tacks" of it, lead was one of the most expensive constituents in gasoline, the major part of it being hexane, heptane, and octane, all derived from Petroleum. Lead must be mined. Tetra-Ethyl Lead involved a costly manufacturing process before it was ready to be dumped into the gasoline. Worldwide lowering of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) has been attributed to the "leading" of gasoline for 60-70 years. Incidentally, "As of June 2016 only Algeria, Yemen, and Iraq continue widespread use of leaded gasoline." From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
So, anyway, yesterday when I went to the library, I noticed gas prices at our local Exxon were 1.99 per gallon. I thought to myself sweet price, I will have to get some on the way back. Long story short, When I come back I noticed the price had raised to 2.07! and they had just changed to 1,99 the day before. The gas station in town same brand Exxon changed has now changed from 2.07 to 1.99. However, yesterday it was 2.07. What kinda crazy game are they playing here? Plus, the stations are only about 20 minutes apart...That is a big price differential.
I just got gas this morning at Chevron, $2.99 grrrrr. True that Chevron is the most expensive gas station but it's near me, if Chevron is $2.99 then my closest cheapest gas station is probably $2.79 or $2.89.... wasn't worth the drive.
I saw gas just down the street yesterday for $1.99, and it has been right around that price for a while now. We paid a little more at Sam's Club when we gassed up because I got the premium instead of the regular one. Usually, I spend almost $4 per gallon in the winter and get the ethanol-free gas, at least every other fill up. We had trouble starting the car when it is cold outside, and on really cold days, it won't start at all, and then I read that the ethanol gas makes it hard to start in cold weather. In the summer, I only do it now and then, just because it is better for our old engine, but in the winter, I need that ethanol free gas, no matter what the price is.
Our gas prices were just going back down again. We noticed the guy at the convenience store close to us had just yesterday changed his basic gas price from $1.99 down to $1.96. Then, in last night's news was the huge story about the gas pipeline explosion down closer to Birmingham, and it is the same area where the pipeline was broke not very long ago. This morning, already, they are saying that this will probably bring the fuel prices back up again. The one that happened in Louisiana was apparently the same fuel company as the one that happened here yesterday afternoon, which killed at least one person, and injured several others, from what I read. When I was looking up the information online (after seeing the picture and news blurb on the television), I noticed that there were quite a few responses , many of them fairly recent, of gas line explosions. It really makes a person wonder why so many of these are happening , and so often, and whether there is some sabotage going on that is causing all of this. For a while, it was the trains carrying fuel or oil that were going off of the tracks for unknown reason and exploding, and now it seems to be the fuel lines themselves that are being blown up. http://www.waff.com/story/33542192/...uld-temporarily-impact-gas-prices-expert-says
I live in the high gas price area. To get the cheapest gas I'd have to drive far and to a not so great area....that's where it's $2.39. I paid $2.99 a few days ago.
I put some in the other day while I was at Walmart/Murphy's. It was either $1.86 or $1.89. Either way, I was happy it was so low, so I put in a few dollars more than I had at first intended, once I saw the price.
I saw some differing prices on gas today as I went to the store. The lowest I saw was 2.04. How much are you paying?