[Shotimes] Re: Gen I vs. Gen II

[Mark D. Mallory]

Most people don't realize that this is the case.  Actually what happens is
that refineries (doesn't matter who BP, Sunoco, Mobile, etc) don't make
gasoline all the time.  Like all other industries, the price and cost of
making gasoline fluctuates.  If it's not cost effective to make gasoline
than they'll make and sell something else and buy the gasoline from someone
else and blend it to their own specifications.

For example, if Sun can make more money selling propane or jet fuel (as
opposed to gasoline), they'll cut back or eliminate the production of
gasoline and focus on propane or jet fuel.  Obviously, Sun will still have
to supply it's gas stations with gasoline, so they'll buy gas from someone
like BP or Mobile and blend it with the proper additives, test it and send
it to the gas stations.

Long story short, the difference in brands is only in the blending of
additives and octane ratings.  The gasoline itself is nearly identical from
one refinery to the next.

Mark Mallory
Toledo, Ohio
'95 SHO MTX


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:40 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: Gen I vs. Gen II
>
>
> > 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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