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From: cuhulin on 7 Mar 2010 17:27 Years and years ago, mostly I used Chevron gas in my 1978 Dodge van because there is a gas station very near me which was Chevron, it is now an Exxon gas station.I noticed/saw that Chevron gas caused a greenish looking slimey/mossy looking stuff in the carburetor of my van, 2 barrel Carter carburetor.I stopped using Chevron gas. Since then, didn't Chevron merge, or whatever, with Exxon? Whatever, I don't buy Exxon gas either.I won't even use it in my lawn mower. cuhulin
From: cuhulin on 7 Mar 2010 19:30 Chevron and Exxon, both names have ons in them.Maybe that is what threw me. cuhulin
From: cuhulin on 7 Mar 2010 23:17 I wonder what was in that Chevron gas that caused that mossy looking stuff in the carburetor? I have never had that problem before with other brand names of gas. If Chevron bought Texaco, I am staying away from Texaco gas.There are no Texaco gas stations around here anyway, Mobile either. cuhulin
From: Steve on 8 Mar 2010 10:07 Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: > Around here, Gulf seems to do the best. We do not have Chevron ( :(...I > like Techron, too...) or Amoco. Got Texaco? Its the same gasoline s (ChevronTexaco is one company now, just like BP/Amoco, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, etc.- merger madness a few years back.) The odd thing is that most of those companies kept their lubricating oil operations separate after mergers. Mobil engine oil is different than Exxon, Havoline is different than Chevron Delo, etc. Of course Shell is the nuttiest- they own and market Shell (non heavy duty), Quaker State, and Pennzoil under the SOPUS (Shell Oil Products US) corp, but their heavy duty oils (Rotella in the US, Helix elsewhere) are yet another division, and all the oil formulations are measurably different if you look at an oil analysis of each. Kinda like GM of the 1960s- not that many parts would interchange between a Buick and a Chevy.
From: Bill Putney on 8 Mar 2010 17:30
Steve wrote: > Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: > >> Around here, Gulf seems to do the best. We do not have Chevron ( :(...I >> like Techron, too...) or Amoco. > > Got Texaco? Its the same gasoline s (ChevronTexaco is one company now, > just like BP/Amoco, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, etc.- merger madness > a few years back.) The odd thing is that most of those companies kept > their lubricating oil operations separate after mergers. Mobil engine > oil is different than Exxon, Havoline is different than Chevron Delo, > etc. Of course Shell is the nuttiest- they own and market Shell (non > heavy duty), Quaker State, and Pennzoil under the SOPUS (Shell Oil > Products US) corp, but their heavy duty oils (Rotella in the US, Helix > elsewhere) are yet another division, and all the oil formulations are > measurably different if you look at an oil analysis of each. Kinda like > GM of the 1960s- not that many parts would interchange between a Buick > and a Chevy. I thought Shell and BP were the same company. -- Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x') |