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  1. padroo

    padroo Senior Member

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    I normally don't shop at Walmart but was in the next county and was told that Walmart Murphy's brand gas was pure gas without ethanol. I was disappointed to find a 10% ethanol sticker on the pump.

    When I was ready to push the button to select the grade I noticed there were two 87 octane selections. Does anyone know what this is? Could one be 87 octane with and without ethanol?
     
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    What are the prices on those two buttons, one markedly higher?
     
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    I think the one I chose was $2.47 a gallon and the other was $3.05.

    I just went on Murphy's website and sent them an email to asked them.
     
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    But no explanation on the pump? Somebody's out-to-lunch on that.
     
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    Puregas.org says Michigan City Walmart sells corn oil free 87 octane
     
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    I think that is where I heard it from. If they email me back I will know. I would like to find premium non ethanol fuel for my wife's 1960 Buick, it calls for premium and I would have to add lead substitute to it.
     
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    This would be about right for non-ethanol 87. Most say it's .45-.50 cents more per gallon. The only place to get it around here is out by the lake and that mom/pop bait store sells it for almost a $1.25 more a gallon.
     
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    Never seen a gas pump at Walmart we have been, but there are pumps at Sam's Club, but I don't know about ethanol free gas there. Ever since I first spotted a sign saying "Now Available Ethanol Free" up on our local Citgo station last year, I am seeing more and more stations having this choice around us.
     
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    Could be. Price should be different. No ethanol = higher price.
     
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    You probably can find an "octane boost" additive with upper cylinder lube too for less cost than putting in E0 premium.......which can be close to a dollar more per gallon in some places.
     
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    I didn't want to put ethanol in the old car because it wasn't designed for it.
     
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    Corn cob gasoline = death to small engines. At least any of the older ones. The formulas eat away internal lines and seals. The octane boosters do not prevent that.

    Primo ethanol-free is widely available here because so many people have chainsaws, generators and other small engines. About a buck to $1.25 more per gallon.
     
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    And what is regular, 10% ethanol gas, about $2.50 per gallon? Seems just a leetle absurd, that 10% more gas costs close to 50% more. :cautious:
     
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    Oh yea. Forgot about that.
     
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    Distribution is going to cost more for ethanol, since it can't go into the existing petroleum pipelines.
     
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    90% of it can.
    That's why it is mixed at the distribution terminals so that the alcohol part isn't in the pipeline.
     
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    E85 is amazing for boosted engines though. You have to flow a ton of it, but it's nice how easy it is to end up with 500hp 4cyl motors using it.
     
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    A couple Sonic owners switched to E85 for the performance at the forum I once visited.
     
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    Walmart answered my email stating that the higher priced 87 octane is 1000% pure gas.
    It isn't marked very well on the pump. There is a sticker on the pump that says "contains up to 10% ethanol".
     
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