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Posted By: Bloooooooooooooto In Response To: Stupid question... (MaaMaw)
Friday, 21 April 2006, at 2:19 p.m.
There is in fact such a thing as private label gasoline.
If you go to a gas station that does not sell private label gas, by law they must have the brand they sell displayed somewhere. Look around the pump, the price sign and around the actual store front. It's there somewhere.
As for private label gas, if it is private label there will be no brand logo anywhere. We have 4 regional convenience store chains around my area. 2 of them sell private label gas. The other 2 sell BP/Amoco and the other sells Mobil.
HOWEVER, I have no idea if this private label gas comes from Mobil or Exxon anyway as I have no idea about the actual workings of the gas trade. I only know of the private label stuff because I wok for a company that does business with convenience stores and I frequent the headquarters of these stores. One of the ones I mentioned that is private label used to sell Citgo gas up until about 10 months ago, then they went private label. In doing so they had to remove all Citgo signage everywhere at every store and they cannot even sell Citgo motor oil in the store as a result of it. They said that the reason they went private label was because they actually make more money with private label gas, so they decided to switch.
Well, that's all I know.
BTW, while I am on the subject of gas, I'd like to tell everyone something. For the past 5 gas ups for my car I have been using BP/Amoco gas. As a result, I have been getting an extra 30 miles per TANK of gas. I usually get about 420 miles per TANK of gas and with BP/Amoco I have been getting about 450 miles per tank. Just thought you might want to know that. Some BP/Amoco stations seem to charge about 5 to 10 cents more per gallon but some remain competitive. I only buy fro those that have competitive pricing, of course, but I will pay as high as 5 cents more per gallon to get an extra 30 miles per tank. So you might want to buy some BP/Amoco gas next time and kep close tabs to see if you get more milage for your dollar. I know I am. BTW, I only buy regular and I only buy 93+ octane once in a while just for the hell of it like once every 2 or 3 months (but I NEVER get any more milage from high grade gas so I usually just buy the regular low octane).
Bluto
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