[Shotimes] Gas Brands Was Re: Gen I vs. Gen II

[Epperly]

What comes into the Jersey port is crude oil not gas. it then goes to the
refineries to be processed into the other products.

        Ken


> My uncle's brother works on the fire brigade at the refineries that we
> have here in New Jersey in the Edison/South Amboy area.  As he puts it,
> all that gas comes in on the same ship, goes through the same pipes and
> into tanks with different names on it.  It's all the same gas, just
> different additives are put in once if gets into the tanks.  He's even
> told me that some of the "discount gas" is the same thats in the brand
> stuff too.  I think the only exception to this may be Sunoco's ultra 94,
> but I'm not sure.  Does anyone else have a 94?  I know there are some
> stations, I think its a Sunoco in the Philly area that has a 101 or
> something like that.  I buy name brand gas, but don't really have a
> preference, there are a lot of Mobiles around here so thats what I
> usually get just because of convenience and price.
>
> Bill Murray
>
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>
> > Around my area there is very little difference in the brand of gas.
> There
> > are two pipelines in the area and they only have about 10
> > tanks at the
> > terminals.
>
> There was a story on the history channel a few weeks ago about pipelines
> and gasoline distribution.  They said that the pipelines were sort of
> like "common carriers", and all the companies could use them.  They said
> they would pump one thing for awhile, then switch over to something else
> and they would get very little intermixing at the interface between the
> different liquids, but they would take the liquid that they thought to
> be mixed and sell it to industries that didn't care if they had diesel
> an gasoline mixed.
>
> They did say that gasolines were closer to the same than the company's
> advertising would admit to, although they do mix in specific additives
> for different companies before it goes into the trucks.
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