3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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byates wrote:
professor95 wrote:
Gas at Mom & Pop or discount outlets will vary according to where you live. In my town gas for Kroger comes straight from the Shell Oil tanker terminal. Of course, it could come from elsewhere next year if another company turns in a lower bid. I do NOT buy discount gas away from home because I do not know where it comes from. B
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A fuel terminal can supply gasoline to any number of retailers in a given area, whether the retailers are Shell, Chevron, Exxon, “Mom and Pop”, Kroger, etc. What distinguishes one brand of gasoline from another occurs when the additive package of each brand is splash blended in the delivery tank truck after the bulk product is loaded. The additives of each brand are actually blended in the truck as it makes its way to the delivery destination. Mom and Pop or Kroger will not receive the same blended product that a Shell or Chevron retailer receives, regardless of its supply terminal operator.
Independent "branded" stations (non oil co. owned) usually buy where they can buy THAT load the cheapest whatever brand that might be evrythinf from Koch to Cenex with their additive package injected at the terminal. Most buy enough to cover their credit cards from their brand sign they display, others with multiple locations with various signs are pretty much open to wholesale price.
Wally & sams are almost exclusively Murphy Oil Co based out of Arkansas, who does not buy any imported oil buy the way.
Dennis
professor95 wrote:
Gas at Mom & Pop or discount outlets will vary according to where you live. In my town gas for Kroger comes straight from the Shell Oil tanker terminal. Of course, it could come from elsewhere next year if another company turns in a lower bid. I do NOT buy discount gas away from home because I do not know where it comes from. B
SNIP
A fuel terminal can supply gasoline to any number of retailers in a given area, whether the retailers are Shell, Chevron, Exxon, “Mom and Pop”, Kroger, etc. What distinguishes one brand of gasoline from another occurs when the additive package of each brand is splash blended in the delivery tank truck after the bulk product is loaded. The additives of each brand are actually blended in the truck as it makes its way to the delivery destination. Mom and Pop or Kroger will not receive the same blended product that a Shell or Chevron retailer receives, regardless of its supply terminal operator.
Independent "branded" stations (non oil co. owned) usually buy where they can buy THAT load the cheapest whatever brand that might be evrythinf from Koch to Cenex with their additive package injected at the terminal. Most buy enough to cover their credit cards from their brand sign they display, others with multiple locations with various signs are pretty much open to wholesale price.
Wally & sams are almost exclusively Murphy Oil Co based out of Arkansas, who does not buy any imported oil buy the way.
Dennis
