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re: “Name brand” gasoline

Posted on 5/16/24 at 8:48 am to
Posted by Antib551
Houma, LA
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 5/16/24 at 8:48 am to
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First off, Techron is the real deal, and I have seen the test articles and raw data on it at an independent lab. It actually does something useful. Chevron is not the only brand that has it, but you can also catch BOGO sales of it in bottles at parts stores. There are maybe 1-2 other additives with the same active ingredient, but I forget who makes them.


Detergent additives are the same...you can drink the Kool Aid if it makes you feel better, but Techron MIGHT be marginally better than whatever XOM is putting in vs whatever Valero is putting in. I worked for Chevron for 5 years supporting a downstream/marketing truck rack and now work for the largest liquid storage terminaling company in the country...and handle all "brands" of additives.

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Third, if the gas comes down a pipeline, there are times when it is separated by water "slugs" from something else coming down the pipeline.


No one, and I mean no one is sending slugs of water down pipelines. If you know anything about hydraulics and keeping lines packed, you would never, ever willingly do this in a liquids pipeline.

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SOME cheap gas brands are extracted from the last part of the gas just ahead of the slug, and have a bit of cross contamination.


This is also bullshite. The interface, or transmix, if any gets cut out and sold on it's own as just that, transmix.

That gallon of gasoline you think is "Chevron" was sitting in the same tank at a truck rack that also had customers with allocation to pull XOM, or BP, or Bucees, or fill in the blank mom and pop wholesaler.

I've got 15 years in the industry...buy whatever is cheapest from whatever station is the busiest.
End thread. This is facts on facts.

Bunch of sheep in here who can't think for themselves. It's astonishing how well marketing works on the majority of people.
This post was edited on 5/16/24 at 8:49 am
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