I took this just this week in Chicago at Belmont and Cragin. Although the spreads have been going up lately this is the biggest spread between regular and premium I’ve ever seen.
Higher demand for premium because more cars require it.
A shortage of the additives from the refiners to make it premium.
More demand, less supply, higher price.
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The only premium I buy is the non oxy for my lawn mower and haven’t bought any for a while. Regular hovers around $3.05. The mid grade is a little more but not much. Premium is only offered for off road use pretty much. I did pay $7 for kerosene recently though, up from around $5 last I noticed. I only use 10 to 15 gallons a year though. I was surprised in California a few weeks ago, regular was under $5.
RUG is $2.45, PUG is $3.05 at Quik Trip, $0.60 - $0.70 difference has been stable here for several years.
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If I did not know this was about fuel I would have no idea what RUG and PUG stood for.
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Where is it by you? Have you seen anything higher?
I was just in LA the week before and it’s a 40 cent spread there.
Doubt it’s supply and demand. Much more premium cars in Laguna Beach than the bungalow belt in Chicago.
It seems to be around 40 cents here in Florida.
There are more premium only cars out there than you think. And not just expensive cars so economic zones don’t matter too much.
Not sure about now, but I recall seeing that all turbocharged cars needed premium and just about every brand has turbocharged cars.
I certainly would put premium in any turbocharged car I owned.
But when I asked DuckDuckGo’s AI, it said there were some turbo’d cars that did not require premium. Recommended, maybe, but not required.
This link shows some…
At my preferred fueling place (Costco), the current price is $2.69 for regular, and $3.21 for premium, so that is a difference of 52 cents. A nearby BP station charges $2.95/regular, $3.75/premium, for a price differential of 80 cents per gallon.
In central VA, the delta between 87 octane and 93 varies depending on the brand of the gasoline.
For gas stations located at grocery stores (Kroger for example), It tends to over around a 60 cent difference. For places like WaWa or Sheetz it’s usually 60-80 cents difference but for your Shells, BP’s an Exxons it’s at least 80 cents gallon to $1 more per gallon for premium.
Seriously.
Fully spelling out of stuff should be mandatory on a forum like this.
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RUG and PUG are common abbreviations in gas price discussions. Now you know.
No we don’t know.
Anyone born before 1990 might assume you’re talking about carpets and dogs.
Really? Even I figured it out, and was born in the early 60’s. RUG= regular unleaded gas, PUG=premium unleaded gas. Not really that hard.
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Well, you do Gen-Z.
I do English.
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Except many confuse premium with non-ethanol.
At my station it is all non ethanol as far as I know, but the premium is non oxygenated for boats an so on.
Yeah a little confusing. Not all of us are fixated on petroleum terms etc. I’m just happy they don’t pull out the no gas signs again. I’ll pay what they ask.