any idea's why BP is the prefered gas,in the owner's manual ford "recomend's" that brand over the other's,getting a kickback or what's up ????.

 

Because BP was the high bidder I guess.

Sad thing is that many people see the BP flower logo on Ford's fuel caps and think that they are a E85 flex fuel vehicles.

There isn't a British Petroleum station with 150 miles of where I live.

Chevron does me fine.

 

Rarely ever use BP unless I go up to the mountains. The a BP station that says "Amoco Fuels" on the pumps. Ford must own stock in BP or something.

I always run Sunoco gas because the station is 1/4 mile from the house. I only use one local station.

 

I run BP fuel about 90% of the time but thats because I have a BP credit card that give me rebates, I had no idea it was the recomended fuel!

 

Thank's for the feed back,I use what ever is cheeper as long as it's a major brand name with the injector cleaner already in it like chevron.

 

Chevron has the advertisement on the pumps that states

"Chevron Corporation was the first U.S. gasoline marketer to have its gasoline approved as meeting the performance criteria set by BMW, General Motors, Honda and Toyota for "TOP TIER Gasoline."

Looks like all the auto makers are in bed with at least one of the gas co's.

 

Top-tier gas isn't limited to any particular company. It's a standard for gas that some companies meet: http://www.toptiergas.com/retailers.html

Even top-tier gas varies it seems. My F250 doesn't like gas from QuikTrip (causes spark knock) while it has no problem with Conoco/Phillips.

My wife's Suburban doesn't seem to mind fuel from either place.

 

.................Guess that leave's Murphy at china mart out,what's up with exon not being on that list along with flying J and pilot truck stop's,thank's for the head's up,Oh I forgot, murphy might add it at the pump for an extra charge somehow,they had a recording playinga massage to that effict sometime ago,today gas at our murphy was $2.89/diesel was $2.99 as I drove by.

 

BP profits. In bed with each other make "engineering leaps" in engine fuel economy that leave continued profits for the oil tycoons. Someone needs to pay ayyention to those "engineering leaps" overseas where gas is $7.00/gal.

I live downwind of BP's "newest" plant in the US. We also paid the highest gasoline prices in Washington State (at one time almost $3.60/gal). The BP Spokesman indicated the reason why the fuel was so expensive as the fuel (once refined) had to be trucked to Seattle for the proper "additives". For awhile, BP thought they actually pull that one off. Guess they finally came off their high and realized it wasn't working.

We have many Canadians come down for cheaper gasoline. That does drive the prices up, but when 35 miles down the interstate is to $2.19 earlier this summer, one has to ask WTF?

Once the elected officials received enough chaff, they started to contact the Washington State Attorney's Office to investigate.

Guess what???

Yeap... prices came down without much fanfare.

Roller Coaster....

p.s. - It's back up to $2.90/gal.