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Octane is a measure of how prone to knocking the fuel is, not energy.
Knocking is premature combustion, I.e. why lead used to be added.
holy fuck you're right. I always knew that higher quality fuels reduced knocking, but I thought it was a side effect of the fuel being more pure or something. I haven't really put any thought into this since I was a kid