The story told to me long ago about using gasoline as a cleaner (mainly for chains and transmission areas) was that it did too good of a job. I tried gasoline once or twice just to see what it was all about. My conclusion was that it smelled too bad , made everything smell like gasoline but did clean very quickly. At my store I use Finish Line Ecotech2 for all my cleaning duties and am very happy with the results. I have tried quite a few other brands and none others (IMO) stand up to the fast results I get from Finish Line Ecotech2.