Re: unleaded or premium?

[Jim500mopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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The following is partly magazine articles lore, and my experience with my 
wife's 2001 V-6 Eclipse, which is a "91 octane" car.

The newer computer-controlled cars will normally run fine on 87, as long as 
you are not towing, climbing mountains in hot weather, "on it" a lot, etc.  
Wife is a slow driver, she runs 87 a lot right now in SoCal, no problems.  What 
will happen is you will lose horsepower, according to the rice-rocket mags I 
read (because I have an SRT-4 for a daily driver).  I'm not going to put less 
than 91 in the SRT-4, it's too much fun to drive, & not that much more money to 
run the 91. 

Those who complain to me at work about gas prices, because I am "the car guy" 
are usually holding a cup of Starbuck's or Red Bull, and I just ask them how 
much a gallon is that swill...

The "cleaner" running is a canard that has been promoted by the oil 
corporations to sucker owners who have cars DESIGNED for 87 to pay 20 cents more a 
gallon for 91.  Running 91 in a car whose computer system can't take advantage of 
the 4 additional octane points can actually make it slower.   Octane's 
function is to slow down the rate of the mixture's burn, it will not burn "cleaner".

If I'm wrong, I'll be glad to learn, but many mag articlers have said all 
these things.

Another thing of gasoline interest was Peter Egan's recent motorcycle 
magazine column wherein he sat at a small town cafe and saw one gas tanker truck go 
in sequence to multiple, different brand gas stations, filling their tanks!

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