Originally Posted By: wormwood1978
If I get my gas exclusively from various Shell stations (listed as top tier gas), is it a given that I'm getting "top tier gas"?
My concern is that a local distributor fills up all the local gas stations (BP, Shell, Mobil ect), and the brand name really doesn't mean anything, and thus, top tier gas really doesn't matter since the distributor is all the same.
It is, the organization that is Top Tier has been actually auditing stations around the country at random to make sure that the fuel at that station meets Top Tier specifications and no cheating is going on. If it doesn't meets specs the franchise will likely loose their ability to dispense that brand of gasoline in the future.