joprenbo

So last night I went out to Chili's with some friends to watch the football game and to hang out. Well as we are beginning to leave I start up the car and realize that my gas light is on. I drive down to the nearest gas station and I find that there is no premium gas So I drive on down to the next gas station and guess what no premium gas again. I don't know about you guys but I just can't think of putting 87oct in my car. So I look over at the pump beside me and find 100oct gas Needless to say it was $6.99 but I thought the "S" would enjoy a little race gas Its just weird that there was no gas at all except the race gas.

AndyThomason

well, did it enjoy it?

joprenbo

Yeah, but not a really huge difference that I can tell.

ClemsonWill

I went by a few gas stations that didn't have any either.

Anyone know why they were out? I hope we are not seeing a trend.

Greyman09

It was out in Cola this past weekend. My friend had to use 87 in his BMW to get us home.

AndyThomason

couple guys i know were comin back from atlanta and they could only find 87 so they put that in and went and bought a ton of octane booster from walmart lol

Saki GT

Everyone went on a gas run two weeks ago, so there's a lot of gas sitting in full tanks in cars that don't get used regularly, plus the Texas refineries that supply the SE shut down for a week, so there's a gap in available gas.


Fwiw, I still buy premium at a BP near me for $3.84 while other places are out at $3.99 (reg prices) - I think it depends on how busy the area is.

GrandMasterKhan

I went to asheville for the weekend and Every gas station in a 30 mile radius was out of 93. I spent Hours and hours looking for premium. I ended up having to put in a small amount of 87 with octane booster until i finally found a small station with 92.


Luckily i discovered that Robbinsville NC still had 93 so i was still able to enjoy my trip to the dragon and surrounding areas.

Greensboro was out of 93 also.


So many gas stations were closed it wasnt even funny. It looks like the only places which had 93 were the stations which closed on sunday and were out in the sticks. :/ Scary

CU Nick

I ran into the same situation on Saturday, here in Clemson. Couldn't find an ounce of 93, and when I finally did it was $4.29/gal. I'd rather pay the extra cost to run then Premium over the regular in my S though.

AndyThomason

i've gone to the same spinx on woodruff, never any shortage that i saw, then again i had a full tank when all that crap went down