On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:04:40 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"Larry" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in
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I think we are talking two different things here. I am not referring
to motor oil. I am talking about gasoline.
The point the chemist was making was that gas is gas when initially
refined from crude. What differentiates the different brands is the
type and amount of additives they use. Mobil claims to have twice the
amount required by EPA standards. Chevron touts it's "Techron" or
whatever. Shell uses their proprietary "V Power" in the high test.
Each of these additives are required to minimize deposits, but each is
a different formulation or amount.

So, gas may be gas. But the gas you buy at Mobil is different than
the gas you buy at Shell ... or Chevron. That was his point, and I
found it interesting that he recommended rotating the brand every 5k
miles to get the full benefit of each of these different additives.

Eisboch



Ok, so where do they take the Hess Gas the trucking contractor filled up
with at 6AM this morning on hsi way to the Shell stations to blend in
this amazing array of chemical magic? There is no Shell refinery within
a thousand miles of Charleston, so it didn't go there. I can tell
because it came from Hess, where everybody fills up their trucks, right
under the Mark Clark Expressway bridge at the Hess tank farm which comes
from the tankers on the dock. All the gas leaving the Hess dump is
exactly the same....and there's NO PLACE for each company to fill up on
additives in between the Hess dump and the local station!

So, knowing this, the gas at Mobil ISN'T any different than the gas at
Raceway because they came to town in the same nasty tanker floating on
top of a film of seawater ballast left over from the last trip.

Drop by, I'll get you aboard to peer into that tanker's tank. It's
nasty!

GAS is a commodity traded on the open market many times before it ends
up in your tank....from the lowest bidder through the jobber network.

It's not CHEVRON TECHRON. They don't sell that at the commodity
exchange. They sell GAS. I'm not even sure they sell different grades
any more! I don't see high test listed differently from GASoline.


Ok. You've made your points. I've made mine. It really doesn't matter
when the price is all within a few cents of each other.

BTW .... you are wrong.

: -)

Put twelve gallons in the Ranger this morning - $3.50 a gallon.

WHOO HOO!!!