Re: Speaking of gasoline=?Windows-1252?Q?

[Don Hudson <mopar4me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must be an old fart cause when I was in Texas in the late 60s, you 
could find gas at 29.9 and if there was a gas war, well, have seen it as 
low as 15c a gal!  Even in the early 70s (pre-gas shortage in 73/74) gas 
was only around 40c a gal!

Derek Fried wrote:
> Gas was .55-.65 a gallon????  When was this mythical time? I thought it was only in legend, myth, and song!  Cheapest I ever remember was .99 in 1999 here in California. I miss those days!  
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> From: David Bailey <bb64d440@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:02:18 
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> Subject: Speaking o f gasoline
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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? 
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>  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!     
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