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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Okay, that helps me feel better... my wife is in the "it all is the same except for the additives" camp.
I love cars but in real life I am a electronic tech (as are the guys in the shop who claim "ARCO uses crap oil from Venezuela") however that begs the question does the raw product they start with make a diference after refining?
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Raw materials are just raw materials.
And until a few years ago, ARCO gasoline was made by BP (British Petroleum) and they used almost exclusively Alaskan North slope crude oil which is about as sweet and clean and light as you could find.
BTW Venezuelan crude is pretty good stuff. The worst crap you can get is good old Wilmington crude (from under Long Beach, Wilmington, San Pedro, etc).
Heavy, mostly tar, with lots of salts and sand and sulfur. But its cheeeep.
Nowadays in so cal all the ARCO gas, all the thrifty gas, all the USA gas, all the Tesoro gas and most of the shell gas all comes from the same big refinery.
Roughly 30% of all the gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel sold in So Cal comes from that one refinery.
ETHANOL SUX!!!!!!!!! lol.