Since it costs money to transport gas from terminals to stations, stations tend to get gas from close-by pipeline terminals or refineries, regardless of who owns the refinery or terminal.

Since this story in 2008, ExxonMobil may be out of the gas station business.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25126563/ns/business-oil_and_energy/t/exxon-sell-all-companys-gas-stations/

falls under Exxon? I've not seen an Exxon station in forever.

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Unless a gas station is corporately owned and controlled, a private gas station has contracts to sell so many thousands of gallons of their fuel. Once they hit that limit, they are free to buy from any supplier.

Many of the Name Brand deliveries to their own gas stations are done during the day, in well-labeled trucks. Most of the Brand-X deliveries are performed using unmarked trucks and often at night. It wouldn't look good if an Exxon truck pulled into a Sunoco or BP station.


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On top of that, there are only so many refineries in the area, and just like power, often times it is a shared supply. The gas is often times formulated with the additives that make one brand unique from another, but many times they are not and when you think you are getting Amoco Gold, you're really getting Exxon Supreme or another equivalent.


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So, pretty much what I am saying is, Exxon will still sell the same amount of gas, it's just that their corporate dealerships will take the direct hit, instead of the indirect gasoline sales, which is happening all around the country. I would venture to bet, that if you got gas at a Raceway or other gas station, there's some ExxonMobile in there from time to time.


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it goes into a world market.

which is then bought by refineries. which in turn is made into all sorts of things, which gasoline is just one.

so in summation, exxon pumps it out of the ground, sells it to the world market, then some corp buys it and refines it...into everything we use.

so try and boycott exxon, but you will also need to stop buying all things made from petroleum products. which are millions upon millions of things.

the corporations laugh at us.

...long time.