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Originally Posted by porsche4life
No... You are a cheapskate...  . There are some things that just aren't the same and if you still proudly buy the other because its cheaper.... Well....
As far as the gas station thing. There's a pretty damn good chance that their fuel has been coming from the same place all along. Here there is one rack they all haul out of, yet there is a wide range of prices. The shell Gus for instance are having to give shell at least a .10/gal cut so the unbranded or lesser brand should be cheaper. There is a reason I have worked on several multimillion dollar cstores in the last year, and they've all been unbranded. Guys are realizing that the natl brand doesn't bring much if you build a damn nice store and sell your gas cheaper. But I digress.... |
I go for the best bang for the buck. The "smart" buy.
If something is cheaper but not good, I won't buy it.
And I know exactly where the gasoline they sell at that shell station comes from, I help make 3.27 million gallons a day of it. The company I work for owns it.
The gas sold at the arco station is made by the BP refinery down the street, which I will be involved with after my company takes it over.
The two gas stations mentioned previously are exclusively supplied unless one of the refineries is having problems and can't meet the commitment. In those cases it is common to buy from another refinery on the spot market but they still sell it to their own refinery even if they didn't make it.
After the 1st of the month nearly all shell stations in So Cal, the entire ARCO brand, the tesoro brand, and the USA gasoline brand will be owned by the same oil company and all the gas from those stations will be made in the same process units.