rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about the worst gas stations in the United States and how you can avoid them,
cars burn gasoline you're always going to the gas station to fill them back up,
you want to have a good experience, you don't want to get crappy gas, you want
your car to run right so what should you do, well I know a little bit
about gas stations that's where I started my father ran a corner Texaco station
and I started working there when I was 14, to begin with realized that most gas
stations they have a very similar gasoline that they're selling, the raw
gasoline is created at a petroleum refinery factory ,then they go to like
these three million gallon places, each individual manufacturer then takes out
what they want and puts in their own additive package, so it realize the base
gasoline in most stations is exactly the same as all the other ones around you
the only difference is the additive package that they stick in, and
unfortunately for the consumer none of them ever tell you exactly what
these additive packages are, my father hey he ran a gas station but he was
more of an intellectual he liked playing contract bridge, but I asked him once I
said, hey you know what's in this gasoline you're selling, he says hey I
have no idea what's in it I'm just in the middle of man, he wasn't even
interested what was it in, I've tried to find out exactly what these additives
are nobody will tell you, now years ago that decent fuel injection cleaner
Chevron techron used to tell you how much additives PEA, that's the main
cleaner was in the can, years ago they even stopped telling you that, and I
asked a guy once how come you guys don't show that anymore what the percentage of
cleaner is, an executive at Chevron just said, Oh Scotty you know we don't want to
get in an additive war where all the companies say well we contain 3%, I know
we contain 4% so they don't even tell you how much is in it so you really have
no idea, the only thing you can really be sure of is that almost all the gasoline
is the United States contains 10% ethanol as an octane booster, now there
are some out there that don't contain any ethanol that costs a lot more and
some guys with old cars swear by it, but for the average drivers out there you're
gonna get 10% ethanol inside your gas, now when I was young mechanic they added
lead to the gasoline to raise the octane, but of course that kills
people over time your breathing that stuff in as it burns out, so then they
came out with another additive but turns out that causes cancer and a lot of it
was leaching out of tanks they had a big suit in California, so then they switched
to ethanol to use ethanol as a booster and to make all those farmers in the
Midwest happy that now they could do something with all that corn that they
grow besides sticking it in storage silos Plus then it didn't matter to the farmers
how crappy the corn tasted because no one was eating, it they were just turning
into ethanol to blend with the gasoline now the problem with ethanol is if
you have too much it can make a normal car start to run poor and corrode stuff,
now there are inspections for this but each state in the United States has
individual rules for them, this is an ethanol testing kit you can get one of
these things for like six seven bucks on Amazon you can actually test how much
ethanol is in the gas that you buy, the states are supposed to do that but some
are real stringent some aren't, so if you're curious the next time you fill
your car up, you might take a little sample do this test see how much ethanol
is in it and if it's more than 10% and you're being cheated, not only can too
much ethanol damage your car you get worst gas mileage, ethanol contains about
20 percent less energy than gasoline so let's say you ran on a hundred percent
ethanol there are some cars that are set up that way, you would get 20% worst gas
mileage and that same vehicle then if you used 100 percent gasoline, how do you
choose which gas station to go, now that I tell you that really the base gasoline
is pretty much the same in all of them, now I mean
they do have that thing that's listed top-tier stations that's kind of a game
that they're playing between the manufacturers and the manufacturers of gasoline,
they've always been fighting back and forth where the car makers say you can
make gasoline really well so our cars will run great, and then the gasoline
manufacturers say hey you can make cars that can run on any kind of gasoline
that we make, their always battling back and forth so they came up with this top tier
idea that, oh here's the ones that have better additives and lalala but they never
tell you how much additives are in and what type are in at all, they say oh well
that's our copyright we don't want to tell anybody, so here again you get
stonewalled on you know who has the in quote best gas, take places that are
off-brand generally they buy there's what's called the spot market of
gasoline so a place like Kroger, that day whoever's got the best price that's who
they're gonna buy it from, so from day to day, month to month, week to week you
might be getting different gas at the same pump, it's all the same base
gasoline in these three million gallon setups, each person each company puts
their own additive package in, so it's not like you're gonna get garbage at
least here in the United States, one of your main reasons to pick a gas station
to go to is honestly, CBS did a report here in Texas and found out that there
were certain stations that we're doing what's called pump jumping, this is why
are the station's keep a little bit of money on the pump before you start
pumping, so you're paying for gas that you're not getting pumped into your tank,
1 Texaco station Austin got caught doing this 17 times, and here Houston their have
been stations that have been shown to have
people putting those credit card readers in the machines out at the island, so
when they quick put your card in and out, they're reading your card and stealing
your credit card information, if you found that your corner station has been
reported for having these credit card thefts or pump jumping, or any other type
of scam, stay away from that station, now when I was a young mechanic we had full
service, even if I was working on a car I had to get out, wash the customers
windshield check his oil while I'm pumping the gas, most of that full
service is long gone unless you live in a state like New Jersey or something
where they don't let people pump their own they, say it's for safety reasons
it's something I find amazing, because the rest of the country nobody seems
to have problems pumping their own gas and not blowing things up, but I guess
in Jersey hey maybe they burnt down places by starting fires, who knows but
in Jersey they say you're not allowed to pump your own gas, knowing the history of
New Jersey I would put that you can't pump your own gas in New Jersey more
down to the overall corruption of the state, the gas stations probably got some
kind of a lobby where they want to continue the pump it so they could
charge higher prices who knows, round here they're all self-serve, so if you go in
it's called a convenience station for a reason, you put your car in or you got
your phone and you just beep, then you pump your gas and when you're done, it;s
supposed to give you a receipt, well if that receipt doesn't work and it says oh
come inside to see cashier, that kind of negated the idea of the convenience
station in the first place, so if you go to one of those stations and all the
time the printer doesn't work and you got to go inside, go somewhere else my father
would be rolling over in his grave, you take care of the customers not just sit there
and not even have a machine that works right, the next thing to check on a
station you don't want to go to is, check the prices all the time just out of
curiosity, because when I was a young mechanic they were mechanical machines
and when the price of gas changed, we had to take the Machine apart, we had to get
on our Allen wrenches, and we had to reset the price per gallon manually on
each pump, but today of course it's all done electronically, and there have been
cases depending on the hour whether it's raining or not, they would change the
price that they were selling gasoline, and check the prices maybe get your
phone out take pictures during the day at a station near you, and see if the
price has changed just like that uber stuff where they have, oh well now
the rates are higher cuz it's raining outside, check that out if you see
there's a station that does that stay away from them, and here's something that
I have seen in the past you might be paying for a gallon of gasoline but
let's say you're only getting ninety percent of a gallon when it's being
pumped out, cuz it's not metering it right where the cylinders were supposed
to be filled of 10 gallons of gasoline, but they were only like nine and a
quarter, so people cheat on that, they always did in the past I knew that, once
when I was a kid I went to one of these discount stations this was a long time
ago gas was selling at 29 cents a gallon, so I brought out a measuring thing and I
put exactly one gallon in and it was only about 85% full they were really
cheating that's probably why it was the cheapest place in tow,n it's 29 cents a
gallon but they were cheating you on it, so if you ever find a station that
was flagged for cheating like that stay away from that, and if you're curious
yourself, hey get yourself a gallon jug
maybe for a lawnmower you use it later, put exactly 1.000 gallons in it
and see if it's full or not, and if it isn't you can contact your own state
there's very few times they're tested, even in the States the test, lucky if they
show up once a year to test the stuff, guys that run the place they pretty
much know that, so now you know a little bit more about gas stations and which gas
station you should avoid at all costs, so if you never want to miss another one of
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