Just filled up with new Mobil "Synergy" gasoline

You'll need to report back on mileage, does it help at all?

 

Well that certainly is....marketing.
Although I routinely fill up at "Top Tier" fuel stations, most often Chevron with "Techron", I admit that I often feel like the farmer or cowboy in the audience of the Medicine Barker, when I read the claims all stations make about the wonders their additives create. Keeps fuel systems clean and Cures The Aches and Pains...is what I'm waiting to hear.

Because separate from whatever additives of ingredients that may or may not be added to a gasoline, what we are dealing with here is "fuel".

So the logical and cynical part of me thinks that all fuels primary function is to explode in your piston chamber and create energy. The idea that it is also hopping out of your car and cleaning your windows? Walking your dog and or recording your favorite summer series, well, I take all claims with a huge grain of salt.

For me the difference in cost, between....additives and supposedly better, and simply..the cheapest you can get...is so minimal that I default to Top Tier stations like a bad religion.......I guess I'll believe "just in case".
Despite all the marketing, over all the years, no gasoline provider has ever IMO really redefined "gasoline".
I somehow doubt everyone will suddenly be trying to catch up with Mobil's "Synergy" gasoline.

 

Do you think a new vehicle would have a build up on intake valves but am open to hear of positive result on mpg. Let us know if it helps?

 

Well they do not seem be claiming higher energy content fuel which gives better MPG (they really cannot do that because EPA requires getting rid of the good energy content higher MPG stuff at least in most USA Prii sales regions). I guess it's true that gum deposits can hinder MPG. But I am not aware of an additive that gives better MPG other than by removing crud and deposits. Hey good TopTierGas.com stuff as far as I know, especially those of us in Reformulated Gaso areas get pretty clean fuels albiet not the best energy content/MPG.

 

...big ears too ...wow who knew? (CC changed his avatar after this post)

 

I gave up believing in the additives back when "Mr Dirt" put Mobil on the map. Seems like every gasoline has something nowadays.

 

Well apparently the detergent additives are needed and required by EPA, and it's good to have more than EPA minimum. Past that it's a judgement call unless we see some data.

Well don't know how old Mr Dirt is, but I am guessing this goes before EPA started mandating fuel recipes. Different era. Isn't that Bisco's car before the Prius? Look at the air dams in front.

 

Marketing. Just marketing. Unless we have data.

 

I do use TopTierGas.com which happens to be Exxon and Shell in my area. We have some grocery credit programs so I am usually switching depending on how many groceries we are buying. I use GasBuddy to find the cheaper stations in my area. Since we live in a EPA reformulated gasoline area, I do not think there is too much difference, but I avoid the non-TopTier cheapo. Costco is TopTier cheapest but I do not go there just too far.

Regular grade for me totally, although if I lived in a different region without EPA RFG mandates I would fiddle with E0 and Premium and smaller stations to see if I could find MPG sweet spot. RFG areas pretty much same energy content E10 at all stations in all grades so no fun.

 

Agreed. Think up a new name, add some drops of some fancy chemicals into 100,000 gallons of gas, and bing, bang, boom shakalaka! New gasoline. ITM.

 

i generally buy from the local mobil, he's about 30-40 cents higher than the no names, but at 8 gallons a month or so, it's not worth driving around. and he does all my mechanical work. i'll report back after i run through my next tank.