Gas from the past
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Gulf Crest? We had just plan Gulf stations. I miss the noknox 119 octane.
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119 octane just got some turbo blue here didn't say octane on pump but gas was blue and smells like lacquer thinner and gasoline.
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How did those Sunoco pumps deliver so many octane grades? I assume they had only two grades underground (regular and premium) and just delivered them "as is" for the lowest and highest octane and then mixed the two together at various concentrations for the other grades? I started driving in 1971 and don't remember seeing any Sunoco stations in Northern California.
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Just read about an ambulance that carries stolen gasoline for "resale".
There are sections of the underground gasoline distribution system in Mexico that are continually being tapped and "milked' by thieves. It gets transported using various tricks of the trade.
There are sections of the underground gasoline distribution system in Mexico that are continually being tapped and "milked' by thieves. It gets transported using various tricks of the trade.
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What is driving that market?
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Mexican gasoline at the pump is currently about $4.00 per gallon, more expensive than USA prices.
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How about 1933? Ethanol gas been around for awhile.
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Where is Mexico's crude going?
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Thats how they did it. There was a high test tank and a regular tank underground. The pump had five blends, regular on one end, high test on the other. In the middle was regular with just a little high test added, then 50/50 then more high test with a little regular. If the price of the high test and the price of regular was within a couple of cents, the mid grade wasn't making the owner any money. Back in the '70s you weren't allowed to make more than six cents profit on a gallon of gas. Anything more was considered price gouging. What ever happened to that law?
Some stations that had more than two tanks underground could offer the racing gas at the pump. This pump really had the options on different blends.
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Remember those were the days of full service stations. Think of the confusion an old pump like that would cause in today's self-servie world.
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Yeah stuff was cool, now i went to speedway and they have monitor on gas pump and everyone of the many pumps is on different display and what used to be quiet on early morning fill up, is now filled with weather, sports, news, advertising hotdogs on sale. It's too much.
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OR, switching the octane grade only switched the gears on the pump price and pumped regular old "ethyl", but that's just my suspicious nature.
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Quote from post #18: "OR, switching the octane grade only switched the gears on the pump price and pumped regular old "ethyl", but that's just my suspicious nature."
Like the guts of the slot machine I saw one time (one of the old models) where one of the jackpot pegs/slots on one of the three spinners was blocked off to insure it would never pay a jackpot?
Like the guts of the slot machine I saw one time (one of the old models) where one of the jackpot pegs/slots on one of the three spinners was blocked off to insure it would never pay a jackpot?
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