Re: Speaking of gasolin

[William Harrison <bbjt3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I live in the Indianapolis area and up until about 15 years ago we had a Marathon refinery.
It then shut down.
We now have a Supply depot in the suburbs of Indianapolis and my sister lives 3 blocks from it.
Shell, Speedway, Pilot; you name it, they all pull up to the same tank to fill the tankers.
The gasoline comes via a pipeline from Oklahoma.
I heard that in the 60's the USA had over 1500 refineries and we are now down to less than 100.
Thanks NAFTA.....
Bill Harrison
65 Coronet 2 dr post.
P.S. I can drive 10 miles to a local air port and buy 100 octane gasoline.

--- On Thu, 4/1/10, David Bailey <bb64d440@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Bailey <bb64d440@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Speaking of gasolin
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 2:02 PM
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> 
> ...I only buy brand (new) name gasoline for my cars but I
> will use the off brand (second hand) gas in my lawn
> equipment. Why? 
>  
>  I put the last 30 years of my working career employed by a
> liquid petroleum pipeline company as a mechanic servicing
> pumps, motors valves etc all relating to the safe movement
> and handling of liquid petroleum products. This, by no means
> makes me any kind of authority on fossil fuels or the
> production of gasoline, but over the years I’ve seen how
> petroleum products are handled in a pipeline and at storage
> facilities. I found it absolutely fascinating and my hats
> off to the people that operate these systems. My point of
> all this is that all gasoline is transported VIA pipeline
> from refineries to their respective distribution points and
> then trucked to the sales stations. These pipelines do not
> only carry gasoline but also other similar petroleum
> products, home heating oil, diesel, etc (yes, in the same
> pipe at the same time). These liquids do not mix per say
> while in the pipeline because they are under constant
> pressure. However, there is a small amount of what’s known
> as “transmix” (the tail end of one batch against the
> head end of the following batch), which normally does occur
> in the line.  This transmix is cut out of the stream
> and stored in separate tankage. Eventually you end up with a
> full tank of “accumulated transmix” product, what do you
> with this stuff? It gets pumped separately to a refractory,
> which re-refines or separates the different products back to
> “useable” fuels once again. Hey, this is a good thing
> right? Well, I agree to a certain extent. I remember ‘back
> in the day’ when brand name gas sold for say .95 per
> gallon while down the road was a cheap ‘no name’ station
> selling gas for .55 or .65 cents a gal. How could they do
> that? Like I said, I’m no expert but I’d bet they were
> selling refracted gasoline but at an honest price. You got
> what you paid for and it worked. Performance didn’t matter
> and so what if it smoked a little more, it was cheap. So
> what are these no name gas stations selling today at very
> nearly the same cost as branded gas? Well, I can’t say for
> sure but that is my opinion of no name fuels and why I will
> only buy brand new gas for my cars. I cringe every time I
> see a classic muscle car filling up at a no name station!
> UGH!     
> Dave
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