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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Thank you for proving my point about the power of suggestion, the force has a strong influence on the weak mind.
Shell doesn't even make most of the gasoline sold at shell stations.
Shell only owns TWO refineries in the entire US of A, although they have joint ventures in 4 others.
They do not make enough gasoline to supply the shell stations.
A large portion of shell gas stations in the US are owned by OTHER OIL COMPANIES and get their gas from OTHER OIL COMPANIES!!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NITROGEN ENRICHED GASOLINE.
it's a marketing gimic. And it is working.
I was working at a Shell refinery in 2008 when they came out with their super-duper new and improved V-power premium gasoline.
I asked my buddies in the lab, what changed? They shook their heads and said nuthin, the gas is the same as it's always been. The marketing people just keep dreaming up new names for it.
There is absolutely NO WAY that you could tell the difference immediately qwhen switching ot shell gas, unless you were using too low of an octane before and your car tuned itself up to use the higher octane you put in the car. That is the only way.
Any other claims are simply hogwash and fantasy.
Even shell will admit the gas is the same, but they claim their 2 ounces per gallon of additive are BETTER because they use one ounce of two different detergents (solvents) instead of using 2 oz of one. Again, hogwash.
It's just a brand name and a marketing campaign.
bull ****.
BTW, the same marketing people who came up with V-power also came up with the idea that you need to change your oil every 3000 miles, at a jiffy-lube (shell owned).
Lots of mush-heads bought into that gimic too.
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Just so you know, there have been problems with the new direct injection engines. It apparently isn't as easy to keep an injector tip clean in a combustion chamber as it is in an intake port. Of course, there are other issues with direct injection engines, and other problems associated with leaner burns and higher temperatures. Some manufacturers and their chemists are working on problems associated with that.
But you are well read, and an expert, so you must already know that.
Calling people mush heads, and calling BS is just another way of stating an opinion in lieu of actual facts. Be polite, and don't substitute opinions for facts, if in fact you can. No one else here is being rude or insulting. All you are doing is losing the respect of the people you would like to convince of your authority.
You cost yourself, when you try to discredit others in such a manner. Gasoline research is quite different in Europe. As is some of the gas. Maybe someday America will catch up, if the boys in the lab can manage to achieve a better attitude.