no such thing as summer blend or winter blend. more people drive/are going places in warmer weather months. more gas being consumed = more profit opportunity

this will help prices....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-says-two-saudi-oil-tankers-attacked-065601192--finance.html

Exactly. And also look for prices to rise before Memorial Day and the 4th of July. Pretty much the same thing every year.

no such thing as summer blend or winter blend.

Along with the annual ill timed problem with a refinery in Whiting.

Well this is just factually incorrect.

makes me feel fine
blowing through the jasmine in my mind

worked in the business for nearly a decade. the refineries aren't spending time churning out special blends of gas for 1/2 a year in certain parts of the country. heres another bit of info...BP with their "invigorate" and Shell with the "V Power" is all bullshit too. Shell, BP, Amoco, Thorntons, Speedway all buy their gas from the same place and its all the same. Shell and BP just advertise differently to justify being 2-3 cents higher. Thorntons and Speedway make up the difference of lower gas prices in their convenience stores...which is where the actual profits are made. That's why BP is buying thorntons and keeping all their stores up and running without a name change. They barely profit on gas sold alone.

This is true, but a little misleading. Those bs detergents additives, etc do exist, they are in the gas. But the proprietary Shell one, the BP etc are ALL added in at the refinery. It would be inefficient for the refineries to have separate gas for Shell, BP, etc.. That is how they cover their bases. There is another grade they produce without all that stuff too. But don't worry if you are torn between Shell Invigorate and BP Accelerate of whatever to make your car run better. Odds are very good they are both in there anyway.

Whiting, eh? Can we bomb them?

worked in the business for nearly a decade. the refineries aren't spending time churning out special blends of gas for 1/2 a year in certain parts of the country. heres another bit of info...BP with their "invigorate" and Shell with the "V Power" is all bullshit too. Shell, BP, Amoco, Thorntons, Speedway all buy their gas from the same place and its all the same. Shell and BP just advertise differently to justify being 2-3 cents higher. Thorntons and Speedway make up the difference of lower gas prices in their convenience stores...which is where the actual profits are made. That's why BP is buying thorntons and keeping all their stores up and running without a name change. They barely profit on gas sold alone.

worked in the business for nearly a decade. the refineries aren't spending time churning out special blends of gas for 1/2 a year in certain parts of the country.

worked in the business for nearly a decade. the refineries aren't spending time churning out special blends of gas for 1/2 a year in certain parts of the country. heres another bit of info...BP with their "invigorate" and Shell with the "V Power" is all bullshit too. Shell, BP, Amoco, Thorntons, Speedway all buy their gas from the same place and its all the same. Shell and BP just advertise differently to justify being 2-3 cents higher. Thorntons and Speedway make up the difference of lower gas prices in their convenience stores...which is where the actual profits are made. That's why BP is buying thorntons and keeping all their stores up and running without a name change. They barely profit on gas sold alone.

Yup. Most stations make $1 profit for every 10-12 gallons of gas sold.

Yup. Most stations make $1 profit for every 10-12 gallons of gas sold.

You would think if gas stations made so little money they would go out of business much more often.