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Originally Posted by helpplease
Stablize the detergents? But that would imply that the gas has been sitting for a long time. Or the detergents are unstable. Couldn't this be countered by simply going to a filling station where lots of business is? Therefore you would get "fresher" gasoline.
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I think it has to do more with how the detergents react in the engine environment than actual time degradation.
However, I'm rapidly reaching the limits of my understanding of this issue. 
Will need to dust off the biochem/organic chemistry textbooks soon and that is already making my left eye twitch... 
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