Gyro Gearloose Compares Shell To Off Brand Gasoline

Retired JSO wrote:
I believe, Gasoline is Gasoline and arrives at the terminal through the same pipeline but I think different octane in a different pipeline. Different additional chemicles are added to the tanker before its loaded with product depending on where that load goes. I’ve seen shell tankers beside pilot and loves tanker along with fleets of McKinsey tankers going to who knows where in line drawing from the same drop.

Yes, this is correct, at least down here, which is a large entry port for gasoline. The octane difference is really the only difference, at least in the large storage tanks.
The different companies add their extra chemicals to gas from the same storage tanks. I first learned this from a friends dad many years ago when he drove a Chevron tanker truck.

I got a good laugh from an older friend years ago that followed a tanker around watching the same truck deliver and fill all of the underground tanks at a station, then proceed to even different branded stations. He thought that there was no octane or brand difference because they all came from the same tanker truck...until I told him that the tankers have different compartments. They had to or you wouldn't be able to turn or stop the truck with the liquid shifting...