Keeping Bad Gas Out Of Your System
According to an article in Tennessean.com, about 8% of the gas retailers in the state of Tennessee sell tainted gas. “Inspectors uncovered 3.9 million gallons of the inferior fuel between July 2005 and June 2006, the most recent year on record.” If you buy bad gas, your engine will suffer as will your fuel economy. Six of the world's top automakers, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Audi have agreed that the EPA standards for fuel are not good enough and have established their own guidelines for gas. This new standard is called “Top Tier.” Gasoline retailers must meet a certain standard in order to be listed as a Top Tier fuel provider. Here are the retailers you can depend on for high quality gasoline that won’t foul your engine:QuikTrip, Chevron, Conoco, Phillips, 76, Shell, Entec Stations, MFA Oil Company, Kwik Trip/Kwik Star, The Somerset Refinery, Inc., Chevron-Canada, Aloha Petroleum, Tri-Par Oil Company, Shell-Canada, Texaco, Petro-Canada, Sunoco-Canada. You can visit the Top Tier website here: Top Tier
Hat tip to Jim Gregory over on the Country Coach Yahoo Group for the heads-up on this fuel issue.
Labels: fuel
posted by Jim Twamley at
5/14/2007 08:51:00 PM
12 Comments:
Wonder who Costco gets their gas from? I get most of mine there and have never had any problems with it that I'm aware of.
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Anonymous, at May 19, 2007 7:21:00 AM PDT
Never had any problem with Walmart or Sams either. What about Diesel? Who is good?
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William, at May 19, 2007 9:04:00 AM PDT
On the surface this sounds commendable, however, what is to prevent the local dealer of 'stretching' his fuel with water or some other liquid ?!
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Anonymous, at May 19, 2007 9:15:00 AM PDT
We get our gas at Maverick and Flying J(does anyone know who these companies get their gas from?) whenever they are available and have had good luck, the only time our motorhome cavitated was when we got Chevron in Yuma AZ last winter, DeNene
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DeNene Jensen, at May 19, 2007 11:36:00 AM PDT
It would have been nice if they listed the stations the suppliers furnish gas to. We also buy at Costco and have never had trouble. When traveling we try to stick to truck stops or name brand.
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Charlotte, at May 19, 2007 5:34:00 PM PDT
Our Costco uses Shell gas
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Anonymous, at May 19, 2007 10:37:00 PM PDT
We tested last year for mileag on our cars and found Sunoco the worst
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Anonymous, at May 20, 2007 8:31:00 AM PDT
Whoever dreamed this up has obviously never heard of product exchanges.
It is very common for the majors to trade fuel in different locations, ie, if Shell has a large distribution point in East Gary (Pipeline terminal or refinery) they will exchange fuel with Phillips in return for fuel from a Phillips supply elsewhere in the country. When you get to Flying J and Maverick they will use several suppliers doing the same thing.
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Jeff & Sue Cousins, at May 21, 2007 12:00:00 PM PDT
The gas info is nice, but I need diesel info, too. Seems like every time I buy diesel in Indiana (no matter what station) my mileage drops about 1.5-2.0 MPG. Could it be a difference in cetane rating?
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ToBNamedL8r, at May 21, 2007 12:15:00 PM PDT
I have been told that Flying J has Conoco gasoline and we have never had a problem using Flying J for gasoline or diesel.
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Anonymous, at May 21, 2007 5:11:00 PM PDT
In Canada, Flying J generally uses Shell fuel. In most places as well, if you go to any Shell fuel station you can swipe your flying J card and air miles card just like at Flying J travel center. Flying J seems to be afilliated with Shell in Canad in some way.
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Anonymous, at May 27, 2007 8:46:00 PM PDT
I got this from an article on the internet. "Flying J is one of the country's largest independent, vertically integrated petroleum fuel corporations, with its own oil and gas exploration company, petroleum refinery, and truck, barge, and pipeline distribution system. Day-to-day operations are led by President Phil Adams. Founder Jay Call remains as company chairman, and the Call family continues to own more than 75 percent of the company.
Jay Call, a native of Idaho, came to Willard, Utah in the mid-1960s to run a gas station he had bought from his family. Call's father had owned a gas station in Idaho; his relatives also owned the successful Maverik chain of convenience stores and service stations, founded in 1930.
this is not in the article, but Maverick headquarters are in Star Valley,Wy and it too is its own oil and gas exploration company,
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Anonymous, at July 17, 2007 7:56:00 PM PDT
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