| Do NOT buy gasoline in NW Indiana [message #181044] |
Tue, 21 August 2012 05:55  |
Ken Burton
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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Specifically do not buy any regular unleaded gas in Lake, Porter, and Laporte counties of Indiana. BP is shutting down various stations of all brands in these three counties that received fuel shipments between last Monday and last Friday.
People are reporting problems all over the area and the car dealers are making big bucks overcharging people for plugs, wires, etc, plus draining tanks. All of this is over a contaminated fuel problem coming out of the BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana. This affects all fuel brands in the area as BP supplies almost all fuel here no matter what brand it is sold under.
They have not determined exactly which stations are affected. If you are traveling through the area, stop for fuel in St.Joe county (South Bend) and anywhere east of South Bend across the state. Also southern Michigan stations are not affected. All of those northern central Indiana and southern Michigan stations get their fuel from the Niles, Michigan terminals.
BP is not stating what exactly the problem is, but from the mechanics I talked to it looks like they mixed too much craponol in the gasoline. Niles, Michigan gets their fuel from BP via a pipe. Craponol mixed fuel can not be shipped by pipeline and there is no craponol mixing facilities in Niles.
One mechanic I talked to said the symptoms are very similar to what happens when idiots put e-85 in a vehicle that can not handle it. I asked him to save me some fuel if he gets in another one to drain the tanks. I want to test it myself for craponoil content.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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