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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tinnocker" data-source="post: 1496772" data-attributes="member: 28454"><a href="https://www.sn95forums.com/goto/post?id=1496722" target="_blank">rickVert said:</a>Back in the 60's/70's,this may have been true, but today fuel is filtered at the refinery as it goes into the truck, again when it flows out of the truck into the storage tank, and *again* as it's pumped out into our cars. With all that filtration, the risk of any foreign matter reaching our fuel tank today is minimal.Back in those days American gas had a inline filter at the pump handle.  They bragged about the "Bright Red Final Filter'' in their tv commercials.  It was about 2.5" in diameter by about 15" long.  My dad had an American station and had to change those filters periodically. It was on both their gasoline pumps,  regular and white gas (ethyl as they called it).  The white gas was clear like water, not the color of our gas today and was higher octane  The regular looked like the gas of today.  I worked there for about 3 years in the early 60's.  Regular gas was 32.9 cents a gallon and white was 36.9  cents a gallon the same price for the three years that I worked.  Now the price changes all the time.  Never heard the term premium back in those days, omly ethyl.</blockquote>