![]() Interestingly, in front of my neighborhood (in north Idaho) are several yellow warning signs from Yellowstone Pipeline. That fuel is shipped through the Yellowstone Pipeline to terminals in Spokane…. North Idaho mostly gets its gas from refineries in Billings, Mont. I dug into this a little bit, and found an informative 2015 article from the Idaho Statesman newspaper: The fuel was also selling for about 1.5 times what it was selling for in the nearest large city. They had county weights and measures stickers and everything. It was actually a place with antique gravity feed fuel dispensers where the fuel is manually pumped/measured into graduated glass vials. I have been literally out in the middle of nowhere where I came across a gas station in the middle of National Forest land. But there are more expensive places in the middle of nowhere that you may end up buying gas at if you're low at the time. I shop by price so basically all the stations I go to tend to have high turn over. Some areas in the middle of nowhere have low volume stations. Sometimes 2x a day.ĭepends where you are in the country. are there still places that still have low volume gas stations? The stations in this podunk place are constantly busy. With a place like Walmart, they will probably sell a lot of gas so they'll get good turn over so you won't get stuck with stale gas that has been sitting around for a while if you go to a low volume place. The only difference is the additive package. Pretty much all gas in the region comes from the same place. In your neck of the woods, the fuel probably comes from one of several refineries in Montana that are piped to fuel terminals in Spokane. No refiner really makes better or worse fuel for 87 octane unleaded at the pump. Like cash at a bank, the money withdrawn is only an equivalent and not the exact same bills deposited earlier. ![]() They deposit a certain amount of fuel, and their customers are able to withdraw at another location. Even if a company buys fuel on the spot market or has a contract with ExxonMobil, the way that fuel is distributed is like a bank. A company can pay for a "segregated" delivery of its own fuel to a specific holding tank, but that costs more and doesn't make sense from an economic or performance perspective. There can be differences, but the way fuel is distributed through pipelines and rail it's likely moved as generic fuel meeting certain standards, where it is likely mixed with other fuel meeting the same standards. Every region is different, but for the most part base fuel is a fungible commodity and there's very little to differentiate the fuel. With the fuel itself there are no guarantees. That's what most non oil company retailers do unless they participate in Top Tier for marketing purposes. I wouldn't think that Walmart would use anything other than whatever generic additive is available at the fuel terminal. The only thing that differentiates most retail fuel is the additive package added to the base fuel. The same goes for Chevron, Shell, Texaco, those guys.” “Computers take care of the mix of that cocktail of products, and that’s what becomes Sinclair-branded gasoline. “Each of the terminals has dedicated ethanol storage, and when one of my tankers shows up to pull a load of fuel, we specify the octane level and our producer, Sinclair, has their additive package that they blend in,” Jones said. The Tesoro Pipeline supplies 2.8 million to 3.1 million gallons of motor fuel per day, and it runs near capacity, according to the Attorney General’s Office.Įthanol, detergents and other additives determined by branded-gasoline suppliers such as Chevron, Shell and Sinclair are added at the local terminals. A water plug separates the different fuels in the second pipeline and different-octane fuels in the gas pipeline. It takes 66 hours for gasoline and 90 hours for other products to reach Boise on the 706-mile journey from Salt Lake City. The Utah refineries, which obtain crude oil from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Canada, supply about 70 percent of the gasoline and diesel consumed in Utah and Idaho. ![]() Utah and Wyoming have five oil refineries each, Montana has four and Colorado two. The pipelines are now owned by the Tesoro Corp. The second pipeline carries other fuels, including diesel, jet fuel and heating oil. Gasoline comes to Southern Idaho, including the Treasure Valley, through one of two 65-year-old, 8-inch-wide underground pipelines running in parallel from Salt Lake City. Other gasoline from the Puget Sound near Seattle is sent to Portland through a pipeline and then barged up the Columbia River to Pasco and a terminal near Lewiston at Wilma, Wash. That fuel is shipped through the Yellowstone Pipeline to terminals in Spokane.
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