Digitalchaos
Registered User
Gasoline
This from another forum; Perhaps it will prove to be useful here:
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History Channel ran a 1 hour Modern Marvels on Gasoline earlier this week. It revealed that 95% of all refined gasoline travels through the same pipeline to distribution points and then divided into tanks for different oil companies. The oil companies then add their own additives (if they choose).
The different octanes of gas are shipped down the same pipes, just during different hours. The gas that is in the pipes during the transition is sold to "places that can use any grade of gas such as industrial machinery" at a cut price. I'm guessing that some of this winds up at the 99 cent gas stations also.
5% of the gas sold is done direct, meaning the company that refines it also sells it. They wouldn't say what companies those are though.
Very interesting.
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This from another forum; Perhaps it will prove to be useful here:
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History Channel ran a 1 hour Modern Marvels on Gasoline earlier this week. It revealed that 95% of all refined gasoline travels through the same pipeline to distribution points and then divided into tanks for different oil companies. The oil companies then add their own additives (if they choose).
The different octanes of gas are shipped down the same pipes, just during different hours. The gas that is in the pipes during the transition is sold to "places that can use any grade of gas such as industrial machinery" at a cut price. I'm guessing that some of this winds up at the 99 cent gas stations also.
5% of the gas sold is done direct, meaning the company that refines it also sells it. They wouldn't say what companies those are though.
Very interesting.
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