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Originally Posted by BeyGon
I don't know Sammy, I have filled up my 455 Buick at Arco and it pinged, 91 octane, I filled up my 383 Chevy at Arco and it pinged, 91 octane, I use Chevron and they don't ping, maybe my cars just don't know any better. Plus like I said in the earlier post, they charge to use a debt card. I never used Arco in my Porsche and don't use it in the Z3.
I drove by the Arco in Dana Point this afternoon and it was $4.25 for 91, no reason to go there.
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I paid $3.63 at an Arco last week. They charged me 30 cents to use a debit card.
if there was an octane difference between arco premium and chevron premium the state of kalifornia would be throwin sumbudy in jail, and they monitor it pretty darn closely.
I carpool with a guy who buys 76 gas to full up his huge motorhome (at a much higher price). I asked him why he likes paying so much more, he said because of the 30 cents.
I 'splained to him that it's still way cheaper, the truth eventually came out that he simply doesn't like buying lower cost brands even if the product is zackly the same. But that only came out after his throwing out excuse after excuse after excuse.
He had been brainwashed and that was that.
It's the power of marketing.
Long time ago someone saw a shell or chevron commercial that said their gas was better and they believed it.
Then they saw arco's low pricing and said it couldn't be as good.
Someone else heard it and said yeah, you get what you pay for.
Someone else said they bought arco gas once and it all water.
Someone else said my car pings on it.
The urban legend spread like wildfire.
If arco gas cost 50 cents per gallon more than everyone elses, people would be saying that chevron gas was crap compared to arco.
The power of suggestion is strong, these are not the pings you're looking for. Move along......
If you don't like arco, cool. If you don't want to buy arco, it's your money.
But the gas is still the same.
The refining processes are still the same.
The technology is still the same.
the specifications are still the same.
There isn't anything that the BP (arco) refinery did that was any different than what anyone else did.
The only difference I can think of is the majority of the local arco gas is made from alaskan north slope oil, which is light and sweet (premium).
Most other local gas is made from heavier, more sour oil.
But it ends up being the same stuff.
BTW this has nothing to do with any connection to the arcvo brand, I've been saying this for decades when arco was a competitor.
2nd BTW: when the chevron richmond refinery burned up last year and was down for 8 months, where do you 'spose they got gas to sell at their local chevron gas stations?
it sure as hell wasn't from a chevron refinery.
They bought it from anyone else who was willing to sell it to them.