How do you define too expensive?
A lot of posts involving multiple RVing issues involve people saying this or that is overpriced. How do you make that determination? There are posts where people say they won't stop at a certain fue...
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myredracer,
A partial answer to your question as the where non big fuel name brand (shell, Citgo, BP, etc) no national name fuel stations get their fuel from.
Walmart stations usually always comes from Murphy Oil USA corp corporation fuel farms/pipelines or delivered centers and has for years, Meijer fuel stations in the Midwest fuel usually is and comes from Marathon fuel farms/pipelines or delivered centers and has for years. May be delivered by a private fuel carrier but is really Marathon fuel. Obtaining fuel at various lesser known station chains is done by contracts or very long term contracts. Few of the so called non-name brand stations etc even have their own refineries and buy bulk from the major refineries or sub-storage centers under a contract who may also be the delivery to the stations business operation. However, it's usually very the same fuel that goes to the refinery's name brand stations but is sold retail at a little lower price as the no-names generally have much lower overheads and operational costs. The name brand fuel refineries still get the same price per barrel whether the fuel goes to a no-name station or their own brand name station so they end up the winner anyway as they sell more finished product. Selling more simply means more profit for them each year!
A partial answer to your question as the where non big fuel name brand (shell, Citgo, BP, etc) no national name fuel stations get their fuel from.
Walmart stations usually always comes from Murphy Oil USA corp corporation fuel farms/pipelines or delivered centers and has for years, Meijer fuel stations in the Midwest fuel usually is and comes from Marathon fuel farms/pipelines or delivered centers and has for years. May be delivered by a private fuel carrier but is really Marathon fuel. Obtaining fuel at various lesser known station chains is done by contracts or very long term contracts. Few of the so called non-name brand stations etc even have their own refineries and buy bulk from the major refineries or sub-storage centers under a contract who may also be the delivery to the stations business operation. However, it's usually very the same fuel that goes to the refinery's name brand stations but is sold retail at a little lower price as the no-names generally have much lower overheads and operational costs. The name brand fuel refineries still get the same price per barrel whether the fuel goes to a no-name station or their own brand name station so they end up the winner anyway as they sell more finished product. Selling more simply means more profit for them each year!
