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vmurphyslaw420
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I remember Kroger when I grew up in Louisiana. Remember when gas was at $4
I remember when gas was $0.69/gal
kronin323
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With prices like this I wish I had my diesel already.
Are your ratings different to ours? Standard lead-free is 95 RON here, premium ~98 with some places selling extra-premium fuels with over 100 RON.
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Ddigi7alph0enix
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Yeah like @Rustpot said standard here is 85-87, but that isn't entirely accurate.
*pulls up the official @kronin323 FOUK podium*
The way the fuel is rated in the US and Canada isn't the same as it is in other parts of the world. In most parts of the world the Research Octane Number (your RON 95) is all that's posted by the pumps. There is another way of rating the fuel known as the Motor Octane Number, or MON, which is a similar test but under conditions closer to what you might actually see when driving. For whatever reason here in the US they use the (R+M)/2 method (you can see that notation if you look closely at the pic I posted), which is the average of the two standards. Because the RON tends to return a higher value than the MON, when you average them together you end up with a lower overall rating. So in reality while our standards are different the fuel is probably exactly the same if matching standards were used, kind of like the imperial/metric units.
The difference tends to be 4 to 6 according to Wikipedia, so your fuels are marginally lower octane still. But much cheaper, lucky sods!Similar threads
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