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What gas Company offers the better gas Shell or Bp?

2007-06-06 16:13:44 · 3 answers · asked by eddie.89_1@sbcglobal.net 1 in Cars & Transportation Other - Cars & Transportation

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"CactiJoe" is 100% correct. All gasoline is the same.

For a time I drove a gasoline tank truck. I would be in line with trucks from every name brand of gasoline, and we all got gas from the same storage tanks. The ONLY difference in brands of gas is the color of dye added to it, and how effective their advertising campaigns are at brainwashing their customers to believe that their car runs better on that brand.

The saddest thing is that there actually are people that think their car does run better on "X" brand gasoline.

2007-06-06 22:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by Peedlepup 7 · 0 0

BP is or was Amoco. Shell and BP all get their fuel from the same fuel farms as anyone else. THey don't manufacture "special" Shell gasoline or BP gasoline. It is refined and pumped through hundreds of miles of pipes to a fuel farm (giant cylindrical steel containers) and then a tanker truck pulls up and fills up with gasoline and then drives to a fuel station and dumps the fuel into the underground tank(s).

If anything is done to the fuel to "make it special" the company will throw in the equivalent of one five gallon can of an additive into 10,000 gallons of gasoline.

I used to add the anti-gelling additive myself to the diesel fuel in the Winter months becasue it was cheaper to buy the additive and dump it in myself just before they dropped 7,500 gallons of diesel into the underground tank.

Whether or not you can tell any difference with a name brand fuel is negligible. If you want slightly better gas mileage the highest octane gasoline will squeeze out maybe an extra mile to the gallon if you don't have a lead foot.

I would caution you against the fuel stations that still have the old fuel pumps and they look as busy as Goober or Gomer on the Andy Griffith show. Many of these places will sell gasoline with no additives and too much methanol.

The low grade of gasoline was called "Mogas" in the military and I got a tank of it one time on base in a new VW GTI and the car immediately showed signs of sluggish performance and I ended up getting the fuel pump replaced under warranty at around 3,500 miles.

Good Luck!

2007-06-06 16:42:18 · answer #2 · answered by CactiJoe 7 · 0 0

i would go with bp but shell is the 2nd best

2007-06-06 16:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by Petree33 2 · 0 0

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