Originally Posted By: D.K.
RG
It is marketing. Gas companies are trying to differentiate a commodity. It is not easy to do, so they come up impressive sounding advertising. Min required adds will keep your fuel system clean.
EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU POST FALSE INFORMATON.
Top Tier fuel requirements WAS NOT SET UP BY GAS COMPANIES. IT WAS NOT SET UP AS A MARKETING PLOY.
THE EPA set a "minimum" standard for additives in fuel in 1995. As a result, MOST of the gas companies LOWERED the amount of additives they WHERE putting into there gas. This way they SAVED money and complied with EPA standards.
BMW, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Audi got together after finding that the fuel additives being used to meet the EPA standards where not enough to maintain the performance of their engines. THEY as in the CAR MAKERS set the TOP Tier standard. Gas companies, like Shell, Exxon, 76,ect. . have CHOOSEN to comply with the top tier standard to meet what the CAR MAKERS have set as a better standard.
Originally Posted By: Bluestream
Originally Posted By: rg200amp
HOW many times is it going to have to be posted??????????????
It is not a "commodity". If you educate yourself, then you can make an educated comment on top tier fuel.
RG, keep drinking the Kool-Aid....
Educate yourself.
Originally Posted By: Brenden
In my home town, the Kane trucking tanker comes by and fills up every station except Cenex, they actually have a truck labeled Cenex come fill. there are no Top Tier fuels around my town, so I go to Cenex because I get the best MPG from their fuel
After witnessing the whole 1 truck go to every station, I hold very little brand loyalty to gas around here.. because all of the trucks fill up at the same station 30 miles north of me..
Tanker trucks can have more than ONE COMPARTMENT. They can have UP TO 4. If not MORE pending the situtation.
PEOPLE. All this WRONG speculation needs to stop.
"how do I know the shell station is using shell gas"
"the same truck goes around to different named stations"
It is AGAINST FEDERAL LAW to not sell the correct fuel in the labeled station.
Futhermore, do you think SHELL, Or Mobil, Or ect. . . are going to sit back and LOSE money while there franchised station sells no name cheaper gas?????
The gas company KNOWS exactly how many gallons of fuel is sold through the station each day. They also KNOW exactly how much fuel was bought. There is no such thing as getting away with putting no name gas in a labeled station's tank.
It's like a apple bee's franchise owner buying other, cheaper items from a food distributor to make extra money on there food sales, instead of getting the Applebee's items.
Yea, he might get away with it for a week. How long do you think it would take the corprate offices to find out??????
I PERSONALLY KNOW a person who LOST A SUNOCO station because his sold product did not meet the amount purchased from Sunoco.
THIS is like the 3000 mile oil change myth. People need to stop this opinion based [censored]. Get your facts inline, educate yourself on the subject, then you can talk about it.