I just reset my gauge but it read 30.7 MPG after 1047 mi. Of course the gauge is suspect, but not by a lot. When the truck was new I checked it and it was only off 2%. My mileage has gone down since then. I have 43K on the truck now. Still, couldn't be happier with my MPG. I use ethanol 93 octane, but Top Tier.
The only answer I can give you for the extra dollar A gallon is ,it's ohio and everything sucks in ohio.At Maverik Adventure Stops (similar to Buc-ees here in Utah), the Maverik stations price for mid-grade (87 octane) ethanol-containing gasoline is $4.47 per gallon, and their ethanol-free (88 octane) ClearGas is $4.57 per gallon. Why would your's be $1.00 more per gallon? Do you live in a corn belt state? A full fill-up here with ClearGas only cost a total of about $1.30 more. And yes, it does make a huge difference running ethanol free gasoline.
Where I live in Florida, non ethanol gas at Murphys station is 93 octane, cost about 90 cents a gallon more then high test gas, I use it in my 1956 Thunderbird.
You may be an out lier. The exception.
What kind of driving are you doing? I am not getting more than 550 miles on a tank?
I don't appreciate essentially being accused of being somehow fooled, or don't know what I'm talking about, yada, yada in your post., but I'll leave it at that. It sounds like other areas of the country are simply bilking their customers. I just went to the Maverik Country Stores website and chose the nearest station to our home. The top prices on this screenshot are the cash & credit prices today. Most people that frequent there get a Nitro card for additional savings. Mid-grade with ethanol is 87 octane here in this area. The ethanol-free ClearGas (their brand name for it) is 88 octane. The pricing speaks for itself. I am not lucky. Everyone pays these prices, even people on the Maverick forum that don't believe that one can fill a Maverick with Maverik ClearGas for just 10 cents more per gallon.
50% freeway at 65 mph or lower.
Thanks for posting.It sounds like other areas of the country are simply bilking their customers. I just went to the Maverik Country Stores website and chose the nearest station to our home. The top prices on this screenshot are the cash & credit prices today. Most people that frequent there get a Nitro card for additional savings. Mid-grade with ethanol is 87 octane here in this area. The ethanol-free ClearGas (their brand name for it) is 88 octane. The pricing speaks for itself. I am not lucky. Everyone pays these prices, even people on the Maverick forum that don't believe that one can fill a Maverick with Maverik ClearGas for just 10 cents more per gallon.
I live in Utah, Maverick's 88 octane is actually E15. They do have pure gas sometimes but its always at least as much as the 91 octane. Maybe hes using nitro card points or something
Well that got out of hand quickI don't appreciate essentially being accused of being somehow fooled, or don't know what I'm talking about, yada, yada in your post., but I'll leave it at that. It sounds like other areas of the country are simply bilking their customers. I just went to the Maverik Country Stores website and chose the nearest station to our home. The top prices on this screenshot are the cash & credit prices today. Most people that frequent there get a Nitro card for additional savings. Mid-grade with ethanol is 87 octane here in this area. The ethanol-free ClearGas (their brand name for it) is 88 octane. The pricing speaks for itself. I am not lucky. Everyone pays these prices, even people on the Maverick forum that don't believe that one can fill a Maverick with Maverik ClearGas for just 10 cents more per gallon.
No, I'm not using Nitro points. That screen shot is directly from Maverik's website today. They update the pricing daily on their site. The cash difference between the mid-grade regular (87/88 octane depending on the elevation of the station) is only ten cents. Don't know what Maverik Adventure stop you go to, but there is only the ten cent difference per gallon here in far southwestern Utah. I also checked Cedar City and its the same difference. By the way, ALL new full-sized Maverik Adventure stops with bakeries and food services in central and southern Utah have the 88 octane ethanol-free ClearGas ALL the time. It's a regular item on the pump and has a seperate blue handle and filler.I live in Utah, Maverick's 88 octane is actually E15. They do have pure gas sometimes but its always at least as much as the 91 octane. Maybe hes using nitro card points or something
I needed to fill up our Maverick tonight so I pulled into a Maverik Adventure Stop and gassed up. These are the cash prices shown on the pump. So anyone who said I was mistaken, hallucinating, or simply telling a mistruth, this is reality. 88 octane Clear Gas is 10 cents more than the 87 octane regular. I did use my Maverik Adventure card for a whopping 2 cents per gallon discount (why not?!) so it came out to to $4.68.9/gallon. I put in 8.963 gallons which when multiplied by 4.689 come out to $40.76 total. Had I used 87 octane regular it would have cost $41.13 (8.963 x $4.58.9) for the fill up. If I get the estimated 4% greater fuel economy because ethanol contains less energy than pure gasoline, a normal 41 MPG in local driving would be 43 MPG. For the minimal additional 37 cents for the fill-up I am getting an additional 18 miles (8.963 gallons x 2 MPG = 17.926 additional miles). Well worth it in my book!
