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sworrall
Posted 4/2/2019 2:48 PM (#934414 - in reply to #934357)
Subject: Re: Gas





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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
undersized - 4/1/2019 7:42 PM


Where would you rather money go...to the hard working farmers of this country or the multi-billion dollar oil companies who already have us "over a barrel" so to speak...

This comment implies (wrongly) that oil industry jobs aren't also filled by hard-working Americans. Roughnecks are well paid in the six-figure class, but work #*^@ hard to earn it. And the majority of farm production is from farms with more than $1M in sales annually, with the move to large and very large farms accelerating quickly. The better businesses out-compete the less adept; that's the way of things, it's only nostalgia that holds up 30-cow-80-acre farms as some sort of ideal.

Let's say I put about 300 gallons through my boat each year. 91 octane "pure" gas costs less than $0.50/gallon more than e10 gas. This circular discussion (with some full-on SHOUTED posts) is simply not worth $150 per year.



I don't see a single 'shouted' post in this thread. A couple places where emphasis was used...

The discussion is not circular at all, the debate has at the very least informed a bunch of folks who have said nothing here.

My intent is not to 'save anyone money' by purchasing any specific grade of fuel, although that could be a benefit. It's to correct a serious misconception that has spawned an industry based solely on misinformation, improper politicking, and worse, and to discuss why that's happening and where the misconception comes from, while getting the facts out there for debate. So far so good. This thread won't stop any of the misinformation mill, and I'm quite aware of that. I hope it DOES save a few folks serious issues with their ride and clarifies how those issues really came to be.

The end goal is to educate folks about how really unstable their fuel is no matter what they buy, what to do about it, and the why of it.

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