Gas Octane In Cali?

[FasstChevys]

Oregon, Washington, Idaho are all 92.

Cali uses 91 octane because it pollutes less. the higher the octane, the more resistant a fuel is to igniting. When driving under a normal load, it is not uncommon for raw fuel to pass through the combustion chamber and out the tail pipe (in vapor form) when using high octane fuel. Especially if you are pumping super into a low compression vehicle wrongfully thinking that you are getting more power.

Why is fuel more resistant to igniting when the octane is higher?

[illcul8troffcr]

FYI not whole NV has smog inspection, actually only 2 counties: Washoe (Reno) and Clark (Las Vegas)
Setting up a P.O. Box in some other county and registering your car there might be a good idea

Yea and pay double what insurance is out here? no thanks haha my car stays registered in Va where insurance is half literally for the same coverage and same company.. no smog inspections...and just a simple yearly inspection which doesnt consist of much.

[pecha]

I thought you had your car registered in LV
good thinking about keeping it in VA!

[Max Power]

http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/ed..._technobabble/

By the time you read this, residents of Nevada and Arizona will have been screwed too. What, you don't live there? Just wait, you're next.
It's not like West Coasters haven't been screwed before. From roadside smog dynos to tickets for shiny mufflers, we're used to the man getting us down, but this time they're hitting us where we eat. This time they're taking our gas. We already have pretty crappy premium fuel in California. Just like most of the West Coast, we're stuck with 92 octane, while much of the Midwest and the East Coast got to play with 93 or better. Now, as of August 1, 2001, the best we can get is 91. Time to turn down the boost.
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Whose fault is it this time, CARB? The EPA? The CHP? None of the above. This time we're being victimized partly by the oil companies, and partly--this is the one that hurts--by ourselves.

You see, when crude oil is refined into gasoline, the refinery doesn't have all that much control over what comes out. Crude oil is full of all kinds of stuff, and a refinery simply separates it, sorting all the iso-this and hepta-that in order of density. The really heavy stuff, like tar, is near the bottom, while the really light stuff, like butane, is near the top.

Somewhere in the upper ranges of the stack are the components of gasoline. There are between 10 and 15 different blend stocks, each with a different octane rating, which are mixed together to make gasoline.

The crude oil being used and little else determine the amount of each blend stock available for mixing. Generally, if you just dump all the blend stocks into a bucket, you end up with something around 88 or 89 octane. If you're selective and only mix the good stuff, you can make 92, 93 or even 95 octane. But once you take out the good stuff, you're left with crap--something like 85 octane. Then you have to leave enough good stuff in the bucket to bring this pee-water up to at least 87 octane. This limits the amount of 95-octane gas you can make. If you make 93-octane premium instead, you use up less of the high-octane stocks, allowing you to make a higher proportion of premium fuel.

In the Midwest, where an extensive customer base of good old boys in pickup trucks consume vast quantities of 87 octane, demand for premium fuel is low enough to make genuine high-octane premium.

In California, however, Lexus-driving executives suck down premium fuel like it's Evian, so 92 was the rule.