Gassy Annoyance

April 11th, 2008 by Tom Sepper

You may or may not know, but I’m moving back to Dallas this summer. I’ve lived in Lubbock for almost eleven years now, and a few things have come to annoy me about Lubbock. This is the first of what will probably be a series of my “Lubbock annoyances”..

For some idiotic reason, Lubbock gas stations carry 86 octane as their low grade even though most (all?) modern vehicles require a minimum of 87 octane. The lone holdout to that has been 7-11/Fina stations; they carried 87 octane and charged a few cents more per gallon than other stations.

This past weekend I discovered 7-11/Fina changed to 86 octane - but it still charging a few cents more. While I’m sure that one octane difference wouldn’t cause too big of a problem, the fact that the stations carry 86 octane is annoying.

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tag Category : DFW, Lubbock, Rants

2 Responses to “Gassy Annoyance”

  1. Nader, on April 15th, 2008 at 1:40 PM Said:

    rant away my friend I live in Lubbock now and I need 93 octane gas and i can’t find it anywhere. At one point before march 15 or so they had 92 but now everything is 90 :(

  2. David Fink, on June 11th, 2008 at 6:06 PM Said:

    We have boxes.

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