Ethanol vs. Your Engine

[ChipBeck_imp]

Our local grocery store fuel island has the lowest price in town but has no detergent additives. You can select a detergent additive when you turn on the pump but the price per gallon goes up to the price of the name brand gas.

Using and selling raw gasoline without additives is perfectly legal of course but it's false economy. All major car makers recommend using Top Tier fuels. Without effective detergents hard carbon deposits start building up on intake and exhaust valves which impede air flow, decrease mileage, and increase emissions. Fuel injectors often stop flowing properly as well. For the last 35 years all automakers building cars in the U.S. have used Chevron fuels exclusively for their 50,000 mile emissions and fuel mileage testing. There are no Chevron stations in Michigan so makers there truck Chevron gas nearly 1000 miles to us it. That should tell drivers a lot.

Chip