Re: gasoline

abx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Can I use different brand name gasolines each time I fill up my car?
> Can I use Texaco one day, and the next time Amoco, and the next time
> Marathon, and the next time Sunoco, etc.? What is the worst case
> scenario if I did that? Thank you very much.
> 


That's what the large majority of drivers do. Some don't even know it!

Only a small percentage of drivers are locked into a single brand - and
that is mostly because they prefer the service they receive at a particular
location.

Also, independently-owned gas stations are not required by law to sell any
particular brand, and they often buy from the same independent fuel
terminals as the low-baller, unbranded stations.

For example, Sun Oil, Co. (Sunoco) does not officially do business in my
state - the closest Sunoco-brand tank farm is 200 miles away - yet there
are Sunoco stations here. At one time, an independent oil wholesaler owned
the rights to use the Sunoco name here, and to sell their own product under
the Sunoco name.

They now all buy from the independent tank farms.

You will get "real" Sunoco products in the greater Boston area, but you
will get an independent's product from a Sunoco station in Maine.



Bob Paulin - R.A.C.E.
Chassis Analyisis Services