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Originally Posted by SiberianDVM

Up until last year, 93 no-ethanol was readily available (although 40 cents more) here at locally owned Smiley stations, but the owners sold all the stations to Sprint, and now it is no more. I have found 1 other independent that carries 91 no-ethanol, but it it very high priced and to be honest, the place looks like a dump. I hate to imagine what the bottom of the storage tank looks like.

For many years in our old home, I went to a nice looking Chevron for gas. I eventually noticed all of the cars running less than optimally. It never clicked or occurred to me that it could be the gas. One day I was running low and wouldn't be able to get to that station and stopped at one of the super cheap chains, like racetrack or something like that. I almost immediately noticed that whatever vehicle I was driving at the time ran better. I haven't been back to that gas station since. I'll go anywhere else. I don't know if it's because the tanks leak or if they are one of the stations that you hear about where the owners "top up" with water or what. I'll go with Hanlon's razor and assume it's stupidity/negligence vs greed/maliciousness.