Re: Speaking of gasoline

[Jimmie <jimmieam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, right here in N. California when I was in high school you could find it for 
24.9/gal!!  We used to go scrounge up pop bottles to turn in for the deposit to 
fund our cruising for the night....   and it was a long time ago but NOT in a 
galaxy, far far away *grins*

Jimmie      in Northern California
1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340-4spd, Go Mango in color (original paint)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12601467@N08/
1965 Plymouth Belvedere Station Wagon  360-Auto/To be a 440 (Current Project)
2001 Chrysler Concorde LXI  "Rose" (Wife's car)
2006 RAM 3500 4X4 Mega Cab Cummins Diesel Pickup

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Fried" <mopar383fury@xxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Speaking of gasoline



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!

Dodge recommends 89 for my 08 Hemi, I use 87 and see no difference.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Bailey <bb64d440@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:02:18
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Speaking o f gasoline




...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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