Does safeway get its gasoline from a major producer? Tell me it isn't Citgo.....
2006-10-10 11:41:06 · 2 answers · asked by Apschminkey 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
Essentially all petroleum marketers buy from whatever refineries are in their area. Gasoline (and diesel and heating oil) are essentially regional products because there is not a nationwide network to move refined product.
It is amusing to work at an oil terminal and see 6 or 7 differently branded (Mobil, BP, Chevron, independents, etc) pull up and load up with exactly the same gasoline. Amusing because they advertise so much to try to distinguish themselves - "a tiger in the tank", "the detergent gasoline". All gasolines have detergent in them. No gasoline is made from tigers (duh).
There IS separate metering equipment to squirt in a bit of each companies' own additives - "techroline", blah, blah; but what is distributed is already 87, 89 or 91 octane gasoline that meets API standards.
The first answer is clearly wrong in that my nearest Safeway gas outlet only recieves product from a Williams refinery (by rail) and mostly from a Tesoro refinery (by pipeline and then tanker truck). Those are the only refineries in the state and no refined fuel is shipped in except for aviation gasoline.
Ask at your local Safeway - they may at least be able to tell you which trucking firm delivers it. Or ask an gas station owner operator down the block - they keep track of who buys from who and for how much.
2006-10-11 21:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by David in Kenai 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nah........I just went to the store. Safeway left our area about 25 years ago.
2016-03-17 04:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Independent producers like Valerio and Oceanic - not Citgo.
2006-10-10 12:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋