Post some pictures. We're all bored waiting for the next pin release.

Can I get a closer look in your hole?

Are you saying that for your last tank you doubled your fuel efficiency (from the comment you ran out with 1 strip left) with the ethanol free gas?

Wonder if you could use MAF cleaner? I think those are safe for plastic (check first tho).

https://www.crcindustries.com/products/mass-air-flow-sensor-cleaner-11-wt-oz.html

Oh so I eeked out over 27 MPH on my recent tank, however it was 93 octane and an added octane booster bottle.
The Ethanol free just didn't feel like it was running as good as I wanted.
Also no driving past the century mark, traffic has been to heavy.
The last two measures were only at 24MPG thus happy again to push past 27.
My experiment of E free has come to a close aside from running it in the mower.
I will continue to calculate fuel consumption to watch for engine issues but likely won't update here unless of calamity.

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I've been staying in any area with a lot of traffic lights. My fuel consumption went from averaging ~22 MPG city where I usually live to ~18 MPG there.

Exxon profits DOUBLED in last Quarter.Greedy Bastards

Got to make up for 2020 and 2021!

Thats just the example I read I bet the rest of the companys are about the same.

Oil prices started to creep up in late 2021 due to supply constraints, but then turbocharged after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. For Chevron, the upshot was $6.3 billion in profits last quarter, up from $1.4 billion a year ago. For Exxon Mobil, profits more than doubled in the same period, to $5.5 billion.

I'm at 13.5 MPG and it hasn't budged since I bought it over a year ago.

I forgot to add GREEDY BASTARDS again

I have a brother working in the oil fields in Oklahoma and Texas,he hasnt got a penny more on his paychecks.

Sure we can. Russia

Do they pay him less when gas prices tank?

I would say if you follow the facts its easy to see. All these countries decided to go green, ours included ....however there was no plan for the transition .....gas is now the evil villian, so they tried to force people to buy electric cars ....problem is most of the general population can't really afford them, 50K is what they paid for the house or trailer or whatever they live in .....50k for a car that needs a 16k battery in 7 years is way to much of an ask. Add supply bottlenecks, intricate chemistry of batteries , chip shortages and the war and you have the current mess that we are in. The fact that all of the oil companys see the writing on the wall where we will no longer use gas and oil and its the last extravaganza to produce less and make as much as possible.. That is true capitalism at work....Right now making your own ethonal makes economic sense especially if you use solar still's to get to 5% and then wood to go the rest of the way....which is where we are headed if we keep going down this path....We don't need another Elon Musk right now we need that back woods shade tree inventor that can convert an ICE car to an electric one that also has a generator to charge the batteries while driving to get 85mpg.and a minimum 400 mile range..... necessatiy will create the future reguardless of the oligarch's that made the decisions that put us here in the first place....the real culprits .......The World Economic Forum

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Yes,They dont pay when they decrease production and send people home.

For your conspiracy theory to be solid, you'd have to be able to point to some legislation or action taken against the oil companies that has resulted in our current high demand, low supply state. And where is the declaration that America is going all green? Nobody in power has acted on that or declared some immediate transition. As a goal, yes. But that's a long term thing, and this is right now, short term. The politicians - those not just for big oil, all say the same thing - we need both right now. And why don't you mention Russia at all, when they are the biggest reason why gas is high - that, and normal summer demand + greater demand since we've gotten through Covid, which also depressed gas prices artificially?

I seem to recall they laid off a bunch of oil workers during Covid. Didn't they?

I did maybe I didn't spell it out but when you cut 25% of the world supply naturally there are shortages

plus OPEC has decided to keep production low

they didn't have too Ford, Chevy and Gm all jumped on board and shut down assembly lines for ICE cars and converted gave priority to EV lines

Covid tanked global demand (remember $0 oil for a few hours?) Suppliers cut production as a result.

End of covid spiked global demand while simultaneously Russian sanctions tanked global supply

Of course prices are high. We'll get more frackers coming online which will help supply, but if you want cheaper oil sooner, hope the Russian bullshit ends soon.

Agreed.

No, Ford, Chevy and GM all looked at where technology was going, where they could make the most money, and after looking at the tech, decided for purely corporate profits where their best bet was. Nothing beyond their shareholders and the data was needed. I should point out that retooling is not cheap nor a short range plan, so they all agree this is where the future lays.

Makes sense, a drawback of working for a monopolistic corporation. They treat the employees and consumers equally bad.

Only when they are bringing product into America, not across our aquifers using Canadian workers, and then sent to foreign markets.

at one point it was negative oil !

... and greed.

I hope you don't really believe that. Started when someone took office.

I believe this article would back his position

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/03/13/how-much-of-the-gasoline-price-surge-is-president-bidens-fault/?sh=627a313a7c8b

That's not true. What you are repeating is a lie. Taught to you by those who want you ignorant for their political gain. It started when we finally got a handle on Covid, took it seriously, and then when we came out of lockdown, the demand for gas, which had been depressed, rebounded, driving up the price. Supply and demand. Then, when Russia invaded Ukraine, that supply got smaller. I've heard this lie repeated often here, and who ever told you different, is lying to you. To be clear, and non-partisan, NO administration has any control over the private sector. And this is a world wide problem, not an American one. To think any administration of any stripe could drive up the price of gas all around the world, all at once, is pure political blinders.

Ok, and this one is a dozy of a lie. The Keystone pipeline was meant to take Canadian sludge over one of our largest aquifers, to be refined on our Southern coast and then ALL of it sent to foreign markets. This was in their official filings, by the way. And using Canadian workers, on top of it. Whoever is lying to you, you need to read and educate yourself. I don't mean to sound harsh, but just start reading, turn off the TV. I suggest Forbes, the NYTimes, and BBC America. But find your own national and international sources, and find as many sources not attached to the same parent company.

Thank you for pointing out the truth.

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Is their a Pinside obssessed with a thread award? MtnFrost wins the award for this one.

My MPG has remained the same, but this high gas crap is getting old. It wouldn't be so bad if the car market wasn't just a messed up.

I only tell the truth. It's not my fault there is so much disinformation repeated here. I don't like the high prices either, but I'm going to place the blame on the real faults, not use it for other purposes.

Hey man, you got this covered, Chuck has the 1099 stuff covered, Levi price bubbles, Boob memes, Blueberry Deeproote, Johnny confessional, Punkin Haggis, your usuall JJP and Stern supporters, Bob EVs, FF scams, d0n flipping preorders, and Flynn every thread.

LOL. I am bowing out of this discussion, it's clear I can't contribute anything more than I have. Until Russia gets beat out of Ukraine, I don't see much hope of us getting any gas relief. But I really hope I'm wrong.

It will, it's just how long will it take. However, $3 might be the new norm when it does come down.

unfortunately you are right , Russia started this war to try and take away all of Ukraines oil and gas and shipping port assets . It is the reason that NATO is actually a good thing , due to all the countries in it have agreed to band together and not attack each other ...to work together in time of war in the case of dictatorships that just want to take other peoples land and assets....which is what we are witnessing right now. We are in NATO therefore it would be a highly unpopular position not to side with it so therefore we are stuck with this. Question is, should we re-open drilling and exploration so we can support our own asses