Gas station gas and lake gas

[KPW]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

I don't believe that marina fuel is "treated" or anything different than the gas you can get at a gas station.

Although some marinas tell you that they are selling the mid-grade gas instead of just regular gas, in many cases I doubt that too. I just think it is an excuse to charge more for regular gas. Pardon me for being a skeptic.

As with cars, buying any more octane than is required by the engine manufacturer is a waste of money.

People who always buy high octane gas for their car that calls for regular gas are only accomplishing two things:Wasting money and fooling themselves. It accomplishes nothing.

I have had boats that hold anywhere from 40 to 240 gallons of gas. Any time that they have been moved on a trailer, and pass a gas station, I fill them with gas and it is always just regular. There is no need to spend another nickel and they run fine.

The only time I ever treat gas is to put Sta-Bil in the last tank full prior to winter. I could be wrong, but this has worked for me for the last 50 years so I think I will stick with it!

Are you saying that all the marinas that say they are, are not using valve-tech?

[TiltonBB]

I am saying that in many cases I don't believe that you are getting what you are paying for. I think that is true in all sorts of consumer transactions.

How many people buy a pound of hamburg and take it home an weigh it to see if they really got a pound? How much more profit would a milk distributor make if they left 3% out of each gallon of milk? Do you think Volkswagen was the only company in history to try to cheat?

It would be pretty easy for a marina to tell you their gas is one type, such as mid grade octane, when it is not. I don't know of any consumers taking samples to a lab to test them to see if they are getting what they are paying for.

Again, pardon me for being a skeptic but I am not going through life with my eyes closed. No insult intended to anyone who chooses to think differently.

[ApS]

At what point would these products be added?

Originally Posted by tis

Whose stupid idea was ethanol anyway? It's been nothing but a pain in the neck! Now it's an industry monster that was created and can't be stopped.

I tried to make sense of it at Wikipedia, but it's very complicated.

The answer will be found among the Interests of electric batteries, coal, emissions, greenhouse gases, UN, fracking, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone", EPA, Iowa, fertilizer, AMTRAK, carbon credits, CARB, imported farm shrimp, Tony Bobulinski, starvation in Africa, and achieving US energy independence.

Brazil has made ALL their transportation interests run on ethanol 100%. But flattening the Amazon Forest to grow the crops necessary was required.

Fewer lawyers and more STEM-educated members of Congress would help.

[tis]

Originally Posted by ApS

At what point would these products be added?


I tried to make sense of it at Wikipedia, but it's very complicated.

The answer will be found among the Interests of electric batteries, coal, emissions, greenhouse gases, UN, fracking, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone", EPA, Iowa, fertilizer, AMTRAK, carbon credits, CARB, imported farm shrimp, Tony Bobulinski, starvation in Africa, and achieving US energy independence.

Brazil has made ALL their transportation interests run on ethanol 100%. But flattening the Amazon Forest to grow the crops necessary was required.

Fewer lawyers and more STEM-educated members of Congress would help.

You mean you can't see the forest for the trees?

[ApS]

Originally Posted by tis

You mean you can't see the forest for the trees?

It gets worse.

Ethanol reduces particulates in the atmosphere.

Now that Science has nearly conquered particulates in the atmosphere, as of yesterday, Bill Gates has charted a "solar geo-engineering" course to ADD particulates to the atmosphere to combat Climate Change.

It would seem we need more coal-burning, more volcanoes, more jet-liners, more wildfires, and LESS ethanol...

[tis]

Originally Posted by ApS

It gets worse.

Ethanol reduces particulates in the atmosphere.

Now that Science has nearly conquered particulates in the atmosphere, as of yesterday, Bill Gates has charted a "solar geo-engineering" course to ADD particulates to the atmosphere to combat Climate Change.

It would seem we need more coal-burning, more volcanoes, more jet-liners, more wildfires, and LESS ethanol...

We just can't leave things alone can we. Things have a way of adapting and taking care of themselves but those interfering big shots have to interfere. Bill Gates has done as much damage to this world as the government. Leave us alone!!