Gothamist: Bad Gas Causes NJ Drivers to Break Down

slburnham

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:37:22 -0500

I own an Exxon Station. My tanks have sensors that shut me down if they detect ANY water. Just shows how Lukoil is trying to rip us off!!! My son's car had $1600 worth of damage after buying gas at a Lukoil in South Jersey. Let's see how easy it is to get reimbursed!

edEx

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:01:46 -0500

tip of the ice berg... wait until gas reaches the $4 mark... water and dirt = cheap faux gas.

zodak

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:02:38 -0500

i want to apologize to all the motorists. i had some bad burritos for dinner that night.

Rocknrope

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:25:00 -0500

^^^ Yeah, because every place is accessible by train.

JMH

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:31:31 -0500

Here's an idea: Take a train and stop giving OPEC all your money.

avatar77

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:11:46 -0500

"One Bronx residents" Oops! Guess it wouldn't be a Jen Chung story without a typo, would it?

KhuntienNang

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:59:22 -0500

#6: ROFL. i didn't notice that until you mentioned it. LOL.

wowthatsucks

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:46:32 -0500

Gas only comes from a handful of refineries. It's the additive packages/detergents added to the gas which makes the brands different. Basically, as the ABC story & #5 points out, gas is gas.

GM

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:45:03 -0500

Regardless of what the abc article might make you believe, even though the EPA has minimum requirements for detergents (detergents keep your injectors clean and so help exhaust emissions) all gas is not exactly the same. Yes, it all comes out of the same refineries, but then the different brands add their own additive packs. For example, it was found that cheap walmart gas was causing earlier engine breakdown in cars because it didn't have these additives at all. Shell had to settle with some car owners (I think it was limited to mercedez benz) over their additives causing gum to form in their fuel pumps. Anyway, people going to Lukoil had it coming to them. Bad karma and all.

KinoSport

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:16:10 -0500

Ah, that's a terrific headline.

Politburo

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:06:39 -0500

The ABC story is correct. It's an open secret in the oil industry that all regular gas is the same. Discount stations tend to have older storage tanks that can allow water to get into the gas, which is why I tend to avoid them (or any brand-name station that looks older). However it seems like in this case that the contamination occurred between the distribution terminal and the service station.

Armchair_warrior

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:54:08 -0500

where are those white Tibetan protesters. russia holds more stolen land than anyone else in the world!!! that oil is stolen too. anyway they have crappy oil.

matty

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:37:24 -0500

Lukoil is a Russian company so I am not surprised it is an inferior product.

robingee

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:36:43 -0500

I didn't think Lukoil was a no-name gas company. Didn't they buy out Gulf or something?

Rocknrope

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:04:47 -0500

I knew it! I get made fun of every time I pass by some generic fuel jockey in favor of a Hess or Exxon. So much for this story: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/story?id=1261790