Shell "fuel economy formula"

[Inane]

mean for shell obviously.?

any ideas when it will be here?

optimax had sulphur in it.

Bp Ultimate and Mobil Synergy 8000 is better

[Norty]

Hey,

The G/F's old man has been using that fuel and he reckons it's working he has an SS V8 and we where talking about it last night and he said he now can get an extra 60kms out of the tank using the fuel, i am going to put some in my car tonight and see how meny kms i get out of a tank.

So i dunno but he seems to be converted.

I remember that a VW hit the country a couple of months ago doing the shell test drive on the fuel and they said they could drive from the top of the north island to the bottom of the south on 1 tank of gas, i dont know if they did it or not anyone remember this.

Either way going to do some tests myself.

[barryogen]

I remember that a VW hit the country a couple of months ago doing the shell test drive on the fuel and they said they could drive from the top of the north island to the bottom of the south on 1 tank of gas, i dont know if they did it or not anyone remember this.

wow... unless they had one fscking huge tank I would question that... actually...

the one that Shell mentioned, reckoned it could get ~40km/L, so I guess it would be possible, but only just, and only if you had ideal conditions blah blah blah.

60L tank would give 2400kms, but... I still don't buy it, I mean I'm a firm believer of the "it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" ideology

[Leon]

placebo.

[Mr.Phreak]

If you want to have better economy, change your driving style

[barryogen]

If you want to have better economy, change your driving style

heh, when driving my car like a nana for 1200kms, I did it on two tanks, normally I can only get ~500kms on normal driving.

[Dell'Orto]

I just put $20 in the wagon (all of 11.7 litres ) and did a 150k round trip, and I dont think it used any less than normal.
How the hell would they make it last longer anyway??

[bluemaumau]

apparently its lubed up more like diesel. so everything moves easier.

-quote from shell guy

*dont shoot the messenger*

personally if its more like diesel im keep my car away.

[flat_0ut]

petrol stations should offer us so much off e.g. $3 vouchers instead of so called 'more economic fuel'

[varix]

a friend of mine works at shell. i asked him about it,

he was told shell has been testing it for 15 years and habve the world record for driving around the world (40 tanks)

i dont think itll make ne diff. just letting the masses know

next time you go into shell look at the ads that brag about the world record. At the bottom of the add it says something like "This formula of fuel is not the same that we sell". Woo hoo, they got the world record with some hardcore fuel, but they arent gonna sell it to us

[ollieboy]

In this time of rising fuel prices when fuel companies are making more and more money from their product and people are having to spend more and more then a company would say their fuel makes your car go further on less wouldn't they. Then everyone will go fuel at that fuel station, they spend more, the company makes more and the ignorant contine life believing they are using less fuel.

[2LTR Rona]

All this bollocks about will allow you to drive furhter, save you money etc etc is rubbish. The tests are done in lab environments under conditions that the fuel companies dictate to get the best possible stats in their favour, and these conditions are no where even close to those that we drive in day to day.

The only real way anyone is going to say money is by changing their driving style, but who wants to drive like a nana every where

[gurutasker]

I still don't buy it, I mean I'm a firm believer of the "it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" ideology

Gupta's Law of Creative Anomolyies

It applies to almost anything

[Adamal]

Well, I've filled up with it and will see what the results are.

And I have no plans on pussifying my driving any.

[bluemaumau]

pussifying.

*adds to dictionary*

[NA Drifter]

maybe should change the injector size on the car, so less petrol into the cylinder = save more fuel!
1 tank from top of NZ to south!?.. either a pretty big fuel tank and/or lots of neutral gear driving.... going down hill etc

[no_8wire]

Nah, lots of drafting behind trucks man! esp if they stuck to the main routes!

[Norty]

Well it looks like it is not doing anything for me thus far. Tho i do have to say after the tank of caltex gas i had my car is running better again tho caltex gas always makes my car run like crap.

I think its more of a mind thing then anything. I guess people would fill up and get that shell leaflet read it and think thats what they have to do to make the shell gas work correctly. Either way the real question now is this

WHY IS GAS STILL AT 1.75.9 when Oil has Dropped !

Someone start up a toyspeed mafia, kidnapp the oil companies familys and hold them to ransom like they do us with the fuel prices, see how they like it.

[no_8wire]

They are a business, they exist to make money...get over it!
Its not like its a human right to have access to cheap petrol...

Businesses sole goal is to make money, just be grateful they are not charging you $2.50...becasue if they wanted to they could.

[Norty]

They are a business, they exist to make money...get over it!
Its not like its a human right to have access to cheap petrol...

Businesses sole goal is to make money, just be grateful they are not charging you $2.50...becasue if they wanted to they could.

Cheap petrol, Try Affordable petrol, look at all the people that will go back on the dole because once they fuel their car to get to work it will just work out to be better to go back on the dole and not drive. (low income earners etc..) Then we have to pay out of our taxes.

And dont try to say they will use public transport, dont forget that they use fuel too and they are currenlty overcrowed (about 5 bucks from kura to auckland) and like the auckland transport system is any good. Dont see a train in station in Otara, why get up in the morning to catch a bus when he/she can sit on the dole selling drugs to school kids and make more cash. It happens

Fuel costs for fishermen now amount to up to 50% of operating costs

I agree that companies are there to make money, they also have a responsibily to the public to supply resources are the cheapest possible price (so when barrel of oil drops, gas at pump should drop because when it rises it rised right away at the pump).

While i can afford gas at $2.50 can you?

High Gas prices = high prices on everything. Businesses as you stated whos sole gold to make money will just cut jobs, quality of work in some cases to cut costs to remain competive, dont forget they are compeating with china a communist country that has millions of workers that will work for 10cents a day.

I wont be grateful because its hurting the middle class workers of NZ small business and thus hurting this country. Just google news NZ and read all the places closing or cutting jobs or rising the cost of product.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story ... D=10343848

"Shopkeepers say fierce competition for customers' dollars - already dwindling because of the ever-climbing cost of filling up the family car - has left them struggling to resist price rises for groceries and other necessities of life. "

Rising costs are not reflicted in a Kiwis wage.

Grateful i am anything But.