Please be aware that the octane for premium gasoline shipped through California’s common-carrier pipeline system is changing from 92 to 91 octane. As a result, virtually all California premium gasoline, including 76 premium grade gasoline will be 91 octane starting August 1, 2001.


Please contact your district manager if you have any questions during the conversion process. In addition to the information below specifically about the change, attached is basic information about octane from the American Petroleum Institute.

more info:
http://www.binaryvista.com/temp/ToscoMemo1.html

 

Bummer. I bet we are not far behind. They are allready talking about having winter fuel all year. That will suck.

 

Looks like it's time to start hoarding the NOS 'black box' fuel additive...

If we do only get 91 octane up here, I am going to be very, very dejected.

~rick

 

Here's two quotes from the site listed. Hopefully Texaco, Shell, and Chevron will stay at 92 Octane. The 2nd quote is a no-brainer.

 

Found a possible alternate fuel, custom blended for our trucks... cost per tank is going to be really, really expensive though.

So who's going to be the test mule?



~rick

 

Sorry to hear that fella's. Colorado has had 91 octane for years. You get used to it. On the up side though when I fueled up on Saturday I had to rub my eyes and look at the pump like 53 times when I saw the price had dropped to $1.49 a gallon for Premium That's in Denver though, where I live in Ft. Collins (College town) it's still $1.89

 

Is that missing 1 octane actually going to affect our engine's performance? Seems like it should be ok.

 

I've heard that the change from 92 to 91 octane is virtually unnoticeable. Besides, isn't the recommended gas for these trucks 91 octane in the manual???