3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

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

It is true that gas at Mom and Pop or discount outlets can vary, but the variance is not due to the location of its supplier. Bulk gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation fuels are generally shipped from domestic refiners, and in some cases from foreign fuel tankers, via pipeline to bulk storage terminals across the nation. These fuel terminals can be owned or operated by any petroleum entity.

Gasoline produced at refineries, whether owned by Shell, Motiva, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Valero, ConocoPhillips, or Hugo Chavez, is a base product and is usually the same regardless of the refiner. (Texaco no longer owns or operates its own refineries. Its refineries were acquired a few years ago by Shell and Motiva, when Chevron purchased Texaco. The brand Texaco is now owned by Chevron and is the same fuel products found at a Chevron retailer.)

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.

These cross brand fuel transactions are governed by exchange agreements between petroleum companies and allow a brand to retail its fuel products in locations where it does not have a proprietary supply. Mom and Pop locations usually purchase its product from the local fuel distributor, who also loads at the supply terminal. Mom and Pop and Kroger will not receive the same additive package as a major brand receives, and there is a difference!

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