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

[ianf@eden.rutgers.edu]

I don't usually have a problem with "no name gas" except that the non-
brand name gas stations tend to be run down and use old pumps that are 
slow to pump. I've heard that a slow pumping pump means that the filter 
is clogged and that there is other debris in the line. Makes you think. 
I'd like to get "Delta" gas from down the street since its a good 30 
cents cheaper than BP, but the rusty pumps and run down building sort 
of doens't appeal to me. Maybe i'll get over it and get some this week.

Ian
running 89 all this month..who needs high octane with no second gear? :(
> 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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> 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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