> Pittsburgh has way, way too many local restaurants (and other businesses) that make themselves needlessly difficult to patronize.

It's like the "only in the mood for Chick-Fil-A on Sunday" problem, but for half the week! I'll try to eat somewhere and find that they won't be open for 3 more days, or they are open, but only for dinner and I need lunch. Or vice versa. Eventually I lose all interest and quit trying.

And then there are the times where all the stars align, I call in an order, and they act like I'm crazy for trying to buy something that doesn't exist. Because their menu on their website is 6 years out of date, and I'm supposed to just magically know that.

No, just a Civic, but it does have a turbo GDI engine. The manual discusses it on page 541.

Incidentally, Toyota recommends it as well. From page 590 of the 2023 Camry manual:

> Toyota strongly recommends the use of Top Tier Detergent Gasoline. For more information on Top Tier Detergent Gasoline and a list of marketers, please go to the official website www.toptiergas.com

The price difference is something like 3 cents a gallon, nowhere near the expense of 93. And it's not like the engine will explode if you fill up with non-TT gas, it's just advisable over the long run.

> I kept an 88 Ford Taurus with well over 200k miles on it alive for years, and never once had a fuel issue. Back in the 90s.

Like I said, today's direct injected engines have issues with carbon buildup that didn't exist with old port injection systems. They are much more sensitive to fuel quality.

Some engines even require dismantling the intake and cleaning it out periodically. Ford and Toyota use direct and port injection together as a workaround. Don't take my word for it, it's an extremely well-known issue that anyone can research.

Are those 1000% perfect sources with no possible conflicts of interest? Of course not, but it's certainly a better data point than someone posting their opinion on Reddit. I'll stick with the recommendation in my owner's manual, especially when we're talking about less than 50 cents a tank.

I thought so too, but when I saw that my car recommends using it in the owner's manual, I looked into it a little more. Turns out it does make a significant difference.

Modern direct-injected engines are also more susceptible to having gunk build up in the intake, so fuel/detergent quality is more important than it used to be.

I don't freak out if I fill up with non-Top Tier from time to time, but since I plan on keeping my car for a while, I do try to use it normally.

> The Republican Mike Doyle doesn’t always identify himself as such. While he bills himself as “the right Mike,” his lawn signs don’t identify him by party, and mentions of his affiliation are hard to come by on his website or even in his campaign announcement.

Politicians really should be required to display their party affiliation in all of their advertising.

I got a mailer from Jeremy Shaffer, same shit. Eight paragraphs of boilerplate about bipartisanship, "common sense" solutions, supporting small businesses, etc.

On the other side was his resume, minus the part where he was a leader at an anti-gay Baptist church.

I emailed him to ask why he was too much of a coward to admit that he's a Republican. Unsurprisingly, he was too much of a coward to explain himself.