That sulfurous water sure made weird coffee. Plus, after a long day in the car, hitting wineries, etc., I was really thirsty. Could not bring myself to drink it.

BITD Riverdale in the San Joaquin Valley had sulphur water, so we drank orange juice the whole time we were there. You could still taste and smell the sulphur, but the orange made it more palatable.

In addition to the horrible ride experience, did you look at the underside of this bike?

Believe it or not, there is an extremely developed Jersey shore town with sulfurous water. It's caused by hydrogen sulfide. My ex's parents live in the town across an inlet just to the south. It's not nearly as bad.

When I rode across the country we camped in New Town, ND. We had a collapsible, 5 gallon bladder. When we filled it up from the campground's well it looked like tea. Bought gallon jugs from the grocery store when we went shopping that afternoon.

You should have seen my jersey, arms and legs

OMG, this gas station has the grades in reverse order. Almost got premium.


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We use premium in all of our cars. It’s an ass pain.

My brother is in Monte Rio, will ask if he has sulfur water- though he lives in a mountain and I’m not sure it’s public water.

Maybe. Only way to be sure is to test the gas.

At least you didn't fill 'er up with diesel.

wut? your "premium" is only 91 Octane. dear oh dear. Here, regular is 91 Octane and premium is 98 Octane. but the price is not cheap: $2.569/Litre for premium last time I brought some.

It’s generally 93 here. Couple of places are 91.

We used to have 93 premium in the 1990s, I dunno when they started calling 91 premium.

It's probably 91 at that gas station because it's the gas station for cheepskates like me. Regular is typically 3.08-3.10 these days at the fancy gas stations.

CA is all 91 for premium. In my area, it will currently cost you north of $4.50/gal.

I'm really enjoying plugging my car in at home every week or two.

I put a half gallon of premium in minivan #1 after it sat for 6 months, hoping that mixing that with the stale gas would be nicer than running pure stale gas through.

Nobody likes a sore winner.

I was reliably informed years ago that electric cars were totally impractical and the REAL future was Hydrogen power, because we have all the gas station infrastructure and all.

In some respects they are not very practical. For example, I was looking the other day to see if I could drive the electric car to my son's school which is about a 165 mile drive. I can get there just fine, but once there, I'm not finding a spot to conveniently recharge the car with a fast charger, and don't want to sit around for 2 or three hours charging it. So, that effectively means that I will not be taking it there.

I bought it with the anticipation that it would only be used around the DFW Metroplex, and for that it is great. I would not have bought an electric car without having at least one other gas car to handle the road trips.

Chevron had 106 octane "Custom Supreme" when I was a ute. 4 to 5 grams of tetra ethyl lead per gallon. You may recall they found lead in the tundra of Greenland, lead in mother's milk. Or maybe you were too young.

Near the homestead it's $4.55 for regular. I don't buy it as often as when I was working but it still sucks to pay north of $70 to fill the thing. I shop around to find it for $4.10 ish.

Your head would explode here. Our octane is 85-87-91. I am surprised to see 91 as opposed to 93 where LOP is though.

What I wonder is, just how many people drive more than 200 miles at any given time more than once a year? I don't think I've EVER driven the Dodge 200 miles in a day, in 7 years of owning it. Probably a handful of trips >200 miles in the last 20 years. I suspect that's more the rule than the exception, even here in California.

My friend leased one of the H powered Toyotas. A certain amount of free fuel was included in the lease but you have to get the fuel from a participating Toyota dealer. There was such a dealer on his wife's commute bu the car had too many problems and I think he got rid of it.

He had a electric Fit for his own 100 mile round trip commute and had a charge station at work. He had good luck with that car and even extended the lease until forced to return the car. Now he has an electric Kona and since there is a problem with the battery he has been offered a buy-back or some other concession.