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Old 08-04-2009, 11:20 AM
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I read a report from someone that appeared to be very knowledgeable (?).

He said that Marthon Oil refinery was the only refinery in Lousiana that was not making ethonal gas.....and they were suppose to make the change sometime in Aug or Sept.

Maybe his information was only about refineries along the Mississippi river?????
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:52 PM
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He said that Marthon Oil refinery was the only refinery in Lousiana that was not making ethonal gas.....and they were suppose to make the change sometime in Aug or Sept.
Gas is gas. Everyone makes it the same way and it goes in the same pipeline. The ethanol is added at the terminals along with that brands additive package.
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Old 08-04-2009, 02:37 PM
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The cops are the experts on the current criminal trends. If they have determined that a “high capacity” semiautomatic pistol and a .223 semiautomatic rifle with 30-round magazines are the best firearms for them to use to protect people like me and my family, they are obviously the best things for us to use to protect ourselves and our families .
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Old 08-04-2009, 02:50 PM
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Gas is gas. Everyone makes it the same way and it goes in the same pipeline. The ethanol is added at the terminals along with that brands additive package.
Yes......and......No

True all gasoline is about the same....but not exactly the same.

Gasoline is a blend of several [about 4 to 6, if I remember correctly] different products made at a refinery.

How the blend is made is based on the chemical testing of each of the component at the time the products were produced. When the blend is made.....product is pumped from several different tanks at one time and pumped into the pipeline. Each product shipped into the pipeline is only seperated by a "pig" [round ball] so there is some cross mixing of different batches of products shipped through the pipeline.

With this process......every batch [maybe a 2 to 4 million gallons] is slightly different. When I worked at a refinery many years ago.....everything was added at the refinery. If a blend was off spec. [octane, vapor pressure, color, etc], a doctored blend was added to the storeage tank and retesting done before shipping the product to distributers. This would happen about every couple of months.
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Gerald we are saying thing only differently.
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