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Posted By: Larry Foster In Response To: GAS WAR -- PLEASE READ!! (MaaMaw)
Friday, 21 April 2006, at 9:30 p.m.
I put a long explanation up above on Jim Wilson's question but didn't cover a lot of questions here.
I would consider myself an expert on the subject of gasoline and oil companies based on 23 years in the industry including 12 with my own company.
I don't know what you would consider me.:)
As far as "gas", it all starts off basically the same. All gas is "unbranded" in the beginning. What, generally, makes gas "branded" like Exxon or Amoco is putting it into a gas station that flies the their flag. And additives.Each company has their own proprietary additive package that has detergents and octabe boosters... That being said, All Gas sold in the US has to have a required amount of detergencies and other stuff regardless if it is sold in a gas station that is branded or what Pete calls "cut rate"
Much of the gas is refined in other countries and brought here in tankers and off loaded and sent to terminals for distribution through a network of pipelines to regional terminals. Most of these terminals do not have refining capability; only storage.
One problem is that there are something like 12 different requirements for gas in the US. This means that there are 12 different formulations. Additionally, winter formulation is different than summer formulation for environmental reasons.
I won't argue with Bloooooto about his results using BP/Amoco. I do know that before the merger, Amoco had a reputation of very high quality gas.
This is my opinion, though. I suspect there may be more factors than just using BP/Amoco. Some of them could be: weather conditions have an effect, where he's going and how he drives could be another.
Or BP/Amoco is just that much better.
In my above post there's a lot of additional information.
Remember, I don't like Big Oil either and may have a lot more reasons than most of you. But that doesn't change the facts.
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