Watered Down Gas
This guy says there really is watered down gas. It’s the additives and ‘aromatics’ they gas companies put in.
Question from chat room: Is watered down gas harmful to the car engines?
Joe Stronsick: Yes! Cars these days are not able to burn the aromatic properties as efficiently as they should. All cars require a fuel-injection clean out at 30,000 miles. That is because those aromatic properties added by the oil companies give you less fuel economy, clog up fuel injectors, and build up carbon and varnish in the engine. So, if you do look at your gauge in terms of what you’re getting in terms of miles per gallon, once you see it drop by any amount, there’s a good chance that it’s due to the aromatics, or the watered down gas.
I still find the assertion ‘watered down gas’ to be crazy since oil and water don’t mix, but I will buy that gas can be diluted to a less efficient mix. FWIW, I am trying to find out more about this guy, but his website doesn’t seem to be anything more than a place holder 6 years later and I can only find his free gas book at Amazon
My assertion that gas that’s actually watered down will result in stuff like this happening, where a gas station got a bad shipment of gas with way too much water in it and the cars conked out, just like I thought they would.
However, they probably didn’t bother taking their dipstick to the tank. I remember my pop had a this ginormous metal pole he’d actually stick into the tank till it hit the bottom and then he would record the water level in the tank in his record books to show the state EPA if they ever came around. The little worksheets that come from the gas company HQ actually has a line for recording it next to your daily inventory level.
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