From listening to you on the radio for today explanations.
The higher the octane the least likely the gasoline is prone to ignite from piston pressure. If you have a high compression ration engine 12:1 or so and you put 87 octane gasoline in it, it will ping or knock. The pinging and knocking is caused by the gasoline igniting before the spark from the spark plugs spark. In other words the piston chamber pressure ignites the gasoline way before the piston reaches top dead center and the spark plug sparks. This is bad and hard on the engine. The 105 Octane gasoline with not ignite under the pressure as easily as 87 octane and will wait for the spark plug to spark before igniting even under the high pressure of a new high compression engine. Just the opposite of what common sense would sorta tell you. High octane is slow to burn, low octane is fast and quick to burn. Diesel engine do not even have spark plugs, the fuel is ignited by compression. They run around 18:1 compression.
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I used to own several oil wells with my family. We had a small field. The government would make us sell our oil from the older wells a whole lot cheaper prices than the oil prices we got from our new oil wells. (So you can see that some people, but of course not us, would pump the oil from the old tanks to the new tanks). Now for an oil man that really sucks, however I am now thinking that is why our gasoline in this country was so much cheaper than the rest of the world, of course among other reasons. Now another reason that the oil prices are so high is that oil is traded on the price of the American dollar that is currently some where around 30% devalued. So the $100 a barrel oil is really selling to other countries for $70.00. I used the $100 for ease of math. Remember when the gasoline prices went through the roof in the 70's, and had so called gasoline shortages and OPEC was supposedly holding up the price of oil. They really did but that is by no means the whole story as Paul Harvey would say.
Now for the $X.59.9 price of gasoline, that is a hold over from the 50's and 60's when $1.00 would buy several gallons of gasoline. Just a marketing thingie that is now because of the prices outdated. However the manufactures of the pumps still use the same technology. Don't be so surprised at that, because the road and rail road gauges (distance from one track or lane to the other track or lane) is a hold over from the Roman chariots.
Well, got anymore questions?
Chuck Ellis Belton, Texas
