Quote Originally Posted by jcthorne View Post
I can tell you open market gas that is sold at mom n pop convenience stores is NOT the same gas as Chevron premium. Unless there was excess premium inventory sold to the spot market. The reverse is NEVER true.
JC that is exactly what happens! The tank farms operate on contracts. It may be 7 days, 15 days, 30 days. They may have a million gallons of Chevron to sell. The Chevron branded trucks fill up. So do the independent stations. Mom and Pop, 7-11's so forth. They just can't advertise they are selling Chevron. Additives can also be added in after the fill up. There is also a term that no one wants to talk about, "lay it over". If a station owner orders a load of 10,000 gallons of regular. But they only take 9,900 gallons. They still have to pay for the full amount! The driver has to dump the gas somewhere. Want to guess where it goes? They "lay it over" to another tank. The regular gas gets dumped into the mid grade, or worse the premium. Legal? No! But it gets done many more times than anyone wants to admit. Tom