Oregon now lets people pump their own gas and some Oregonians are losing their minds over it

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55. Not in NJ or neighboring states. Oil companies only give a penny or two per gallon to the stations.

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Most of the privates perform service as their main revenue, and gas is just offered as secondary revenue.

If a private gas station has a contract with an Oil Company, once they hit their contracted monthly volume, they often buy gas from Brand-X suppliers, which could be Russian, Venezuelan or other source. That is when they can start increasing their profit per gallon. So, just because you pull into an Exxon, BP, Texaco, Gulf station, that doesn't guarantee that you are getting your preferred gas, or gas that is at a high quality. You might get Amoco Gold one day, and some dank gas the next--all under the trade name of the station. The buyer has no clue of the source.

That is why boycotting Exxon doesn't work. All those no name gas stations will buy Exxon gas, as they discount it to be competitive with other suppliers. Then, an unmarked transport tanker will pull into the gas station, and fill the tanks. With named private stations, refulings will occur using marked trucks, and when getting other sources, those trucks will be unmarked and often a nighttime delivery.

In NJ, there is only one or two refineries. Most oil will get shipped in and processed by them, such as Sunoco. When there is a gas crunch, it costs to much to send in gasoline from two states away, so the oil companies have agreements to share oil processing, at times, and formulate it to the firms specs.

There was years of news reports and radio discussions with the NJ Petroleum Institute about this, how most of the branded oil is just an illusion.

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