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**Caunnysup** · 08-08-2010, 12:58 AM

The irony of this situation is that by boycotting BP all people are doing is dumping their money into these other oil companies.

Not to mention that boycotting your local BP-branded gas station does almost nothing to BP the company. Not a thing. The local gas station is a retail outfit owned by some local guy who has a long term license to get gas from BP but that's about it. BP also sells its gasoline to non-BP branded gas stations, such as 7-11, QuikTrip, RaceTrac, etc. And there is no way for you to know whether you are actually not getting gas refined by BP... because often times gasoline itself is also bulked and stored at storage terminals and it could be from any refiner and go to any gas station... "Chevron with Techron" is really no different than Shell's gas or BP's gas...all basically the same.

You end up hurting the local gas station owner more than BP...

And here's another thing: if you ever buy 89-octane gasoline, know that it gets blended right on site or at a gasoline bulk terminal, and isn't actually produced by a refinery. It's simply a blend of lower and higher octane gasolines... I'd stick with 87 octane and be happy, unless the car needs high octane gas in which case skip the mid level grade and go with 93 octane gas.

08-08-2010, 12:58 AM	#7
Caunnysup Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	The irony of this situation is that by boycotting BP all people are doing is dumping their money into these other oil companies. Not to mention that boycotting your local BP-branded gas station does almost nothing to BP the company. Not a thing. The local gas station is a retail outfit owned by some local guy who has a long term license to get gas from BP but that's about it. BP also sells its gasoline to non-BP branded gas stations, such as 7-11, QuikTrip, RaceTrac, etc. And there is no way for you to know whether you are actually not getting gas refined by BP... because often times gasoline itself is also bulked and stored at storage terminals and it could be from any refiner and go to any gas station... "Chevron with Techron" is really no different than Shell's gas or BP's gas...all basically the same. You end up hurting the local gas station owner more than BP... And here's another thing: if you ever buy 89-octane gasoline, know that it gets blended right on site or at a gasoline bulk terminal, and isn't actually produced by a refinery. It's simply a blend of lower and higher octane gasolines... I'd stick with 87 octane and be happy, unless the car needs high octane gas in which case skip the mid level grade and go with 93 octane gas.
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