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Q: What can you get at the pump ?
In the last week or so, the gas stations we frequent, have changed from a selection of 93, 97 & Diesel, to, 92, 95, 98 & Diesel.
Is this a change happening all over the country. I know that Beijing has had "better" fuel quality for a while as part of the efforts to lower exhaust, but would this change in octane rating have anything to do with it?
The prices seems higher too. A liter og 93 would usually be 7-7,5. Today a liter of 92 is 8 and 95 is 8,5. Of course, maybe mileage will be better if the fuel is indeed better.
9 years 40 weeks ago in Money & Banking - China
I have no insight as to why, but its the same here. 92 all around. Im not sure what this would have to do with better feul quality, i was under the impression that a higher octane burns cleaner so 92 would in fact be worse all around than 93. But no clue for sure.
As for the price again, no idea. Been driving for 5 years here now and never even looked at the price, im not gonna do their math! I just know 300 usually fills me up!
Scandinavian:
I can tell you, my car has always been filled at the same Sinopec station. Now after a tankful of 95 instead of the usual 93, and some kilometers driven, the onboard fuel thingy is telling me that I am driving quite a lot more per liter. Upwards 20%. I could be they have stopped watering down the fuel.
Oh, I thought this post was about the automatic sperm collectors now in Chinese hospitals.
http://medicalbuy.net/2012/09/automatic-sperm-extractor-automatic-sperm-extraction-video/
TedDBayer:
The street fluid extraction technicians are worried about job security.
It's always been 93, 97, and two grades of diesel where I live (0 and -10 degree ratings). A station we filled up at in Wuxi only had 92.....didn't seem to have any effect on performance or fuel economy that I could tell versus the usual 93 swill. It did seem to be a tad more expensive than the 93.
I'm actually at home now (home home). We've got 87, 89, and 93 to choose from here. Guessing the numbers don't mean the same thing....Research versus Motor versus (R+M)/2 octane measurement methods 
I guess it's simply a way to make more people buying the more expensive 95 over the previous 93, thus having a SOE making more money.
I tried the 92 instead and I didn't notice any difference in my car. Actually in the past I had sometime a bit of pinging under load using the 93. 2 tanks of 92 so far have been just fine.
