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Agreed x1000. Now I want coffee.

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I use an Aeropress and get some amazing single cup coffee. It takes a little more work but is super easy.

arrtewwx

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Yeah, that's a few levels above the Aeropress. Might try it one day as I get more time and less car payments!

Wildcat UA

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Natural transition. The differences between coffee snobs and car snobs are superficial.

Nikon1

N8!

The coffee solution for your Audi is obviously this:

https://audishop.online/product/audi...resso-machine/

arrtewwx

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LOL! Ok, if you say so.

As for my comment that this increase in the price difference between gas grades being due to the increase in modern turbo engines requiring higher octane, yes, that is my opinion.
I derive that opinion from the fact that turbo engines have become the prominent engine type in the automotive industry.
Some of those engines work fine on lower octane fuel, generally the lower output versions of those engines that used in higher numbers for cars that are purchased for daily driving without a need or want of higher performance.

I fully recognize that he oil and gas industry have their own constraints on how to refine various stock grades of crude oil.
Thus, I take that into account when I make my educated guess that profit is a prime motive in increasing the price difference between octane grades of fuel.

The massive increase in my area, which is also your area, started within the past two years.
Crude grade has not drastically changed in that time. Production of crude has increased.
Also, I take into consideration that the price differences between octane grade fuel is not consistent throughout the US.
In many areas the per gallon difference remains about .10 cents, which is what has been before.

As for the contention that when gas was under $1 per gallon, and the difference per gallon was less than .10 cents, compared to gas now being much higher, and thus the difference per grade would naturally go up, is inconsistent with the historical reality of gas pricing.
A few years back gas prices skyrocketed as regular unleaded was well above $3 per gallon.
And yet, even when those volatile prices were increasing, the price difference between octane grades remained consistent, not increasing.
The increase occurs in the base price and the per grade difference is thus also increased due to the base price hike, so that every grade becomes higher in cost.

That, does not then tell us why the grade differences has jumped dramatically in the past two years.
Weather can have an impact on prices, though that is temporary. Refineries got damaged during the hurricane that hit Huston, TX a few years ago, and gas prices did do up.
So, during some price increases there are reasonable conditions to account for those increases.

I'm simply pointing out the very high jump in the difference between grades in the past two years in my region.
And, the reasons for it are not fully known. Thus, I speculate as to what it could be.
One thing that is not likely a contributor of that increase is lower yearly profits.
How do I know that? Reports on such things are available all over the interwebs, check it out.
If profits are high, and "record high", then it behooves consumers to know exactly why there should be such a dramatic increase between increasing octane grades.
Hmmm...sounds like it was done because it could be done, and profits continue to rise.
Great job for the people who tried it and won.

As I say, I am not in the least against corporate profit. I do, however, question big price increases when reasons for them are very suspect.
And, as for the conversation going astray, that was not my intent.
My intent was to point out the price difference between grades being a good deal higher in my area compared to other areas of the US.

I thus apologize for opening the door to going astray.
I will not comment further about this digression in this thread.
My bad.