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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Edit: As for what the auto manufacturers get my guess would be a healthy paycheck from whatever oil companies funded the effort. It exists to differentiate 'higher quality' gas stations right?
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I seriously doubt there's enough money involved to make any difference. We're talking about multi-billion dollar auto companies.
My understanding is that the standard came about because the EPA standards that were to go into effect were set below the fuels that were on the market at the time, and the auto manufacturers were afraid that the oil companies would change their additives to match the EPA requirements to save money. They set their own standard to give the fuel companies a higher bar. That also gave the auto manufacturers a fuel standard to design cars for, rather than having to design for a lower standard or a wild west of fuels.
The result is that top tier fuels are mostly the same, regardless of which station you use. For us, that also unfortunately means that top tier fuels are usually going to give us crickets.