Re: U.S.-TRADE: WTO decision likely to fuel political debate on (fwd)

From: Chris Richards (cjr7(at)axe.humboldt.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 04 1996 - 21:55:34 CST


Trust me- Califonians (sic) like to drive- I hardly doubt that all the
necessary gas to keep the commuters and off-road "urbans" on the freeways
is refined in California.

Kind Regards-Chris

On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Gary Winblad wrote:

> >How much of Californias gasoline is refined out of the state? The article
> >mentioned Citgo, are there many Citgo Stations here? Is their gas refined
> >here or in Brazil? How is all this likely to affect the RFG situation ic CA.
>
> Well, I don't know about Citgo.. but what I understand (major warning here)
> is that all our gas it brewed up here. It is all refined up in Richmond or
> Martinez area... sent (at least to down here in the south bay) in big pipelines
> down the east bay to a terminal (in Milpitas? as I recall). At this point,
> all the different brands have shared in this process. Now the gas is made
> into the different brands by adding their unique additive packages. Then
> it is trucked to the individual stations....
> Comments?? Thinkin about this right now I'm not sure I even believe this..
> I've never seen this big terminal anywhere around here... Pretty sure thats
> the story I've read before. Maybe I've been sampling too much of your local
> product up in wine country...
>
> Gary
>
>



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