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Originally Posted by 2000cs

Two questions on the premium gas stations charge for premium gas:
1. What are you seeing?
2. What is reasonable?

I buy Shell V-Power in the Cincinnati region.

1) Cheapest this week: $3.84; closest to me, and the one I buy: $3.94; regular $2.88 & $2.95, respectively. So, a buck difference between low and high.
1a) Last I checked (a month ago), according to AAA my old stomping ground in San Francisco came in high/low at $5.60 and $5.20. How's that for a tiny spread!
1a1) Ironically, it was at a major's station on Upper Market Street in the City that I bought the cheapest gas ever. Not indexed for inflation, of course. It was 22.9¢ per gallon in late 1972, which was a full penny less than I was paying for major gas up on Boston Mountain in Northwest Arkansas a week prior. I should've taken a photo!

2) Gasoline is a commodity, and at retail I don't think "reasonable" is much of a factor in the markets where commodity products are sold. Think eggs.

Originally Posted by SW111

Please tell us how they knew what octane you were running.

Sensors, along with memory in which to store data the manufacturer and its dealers wish to have available.

These are the same ones that tell the DME what to do depending upon the octane being used. In the cars we've been running, this has been the case going back to at least the mid-90s.