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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95

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Subject	Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
Date	2015-09-05 17:04 +1000
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"Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote in message 
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> On 04-Sep-15 17:22, Quadibloc wrote:
>> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>> Major brands prefer trucks with their logo on it since it's cheap
>>> advertising, but if there's not enough business in a given area to
>>> keep dedicated trucks busy, or if they see an unexpected surge in
>>> demand and run out, they'll use unmarked trucks as well.  Either
>>> way, they get filled with the exact same product at the bulk
>>> terminals, including any brand-specific additives.
>>
>> At one time in the past, I'm sure that the advertising of the
>> different brands about the additives in their fuel, and so on, was
>> not false
>
> The additives part is still true; when tanker trucks fill up at bulk
> terminals, different additives are added in depending on the
> brand of fuel stations that each specific load will be delivered to.

Not with the cheapest stuff like Costco and Walmart etc.

>> - and so if you went to a Shell station, you would get gasoline
>> made in a Shell refinery, with whatever formulation of additives
>> Shell thought best... and if you went to an Esso station, you would
>> similarly get gasoline produced by the Esso component of what was
>> Standard Oil.
>>
>> What I don't know is when that ceased to be true.
>
> It never made sense for oil companies (all of which were owned by a
> single person at the time) to build competing pipelines.  Regional
> monopolies did mean that fuel at an Esso bulk terminal _probably_ came
> from an Esso refinery, but there was no guarantee.  They may well have
> borrowed it from another region because their own refineries were down
> for maintenance or something; pipelines connected the different regions
> for exactly such purposes.
>
> When the monopolies were broken and started to compete with each other,
> they all centralized their refineries in Houston and New Orleans, the
> pipeline networks became even more interconnected, and all bets were
> off--but nobody cared where the fuel came from anyway since it was all
> identical.  The very origin of the name Standard Oil reflected what
> built their monopoly in the first place: one standardized product sold
> nationwide, first kerosene and then motor fuel.

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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 16:44 -0500
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-28 11:01 +0000
    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-30 08:52 -0500
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    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-28 15:47 +0000
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-28 11:53 -0500
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:37 +1000
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-28 21:37 +0000
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-28 17:21 -0500
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:14 +1000
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    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-28 11:02 -0500
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        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:24 +1000
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-30 20:20 -0500
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-31 13:48 +1000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-01 05:15 +1000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-01 05:04 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 14:48 +0000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-31 21:27 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-01 05:26 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-31 21:21 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-31 11:13 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-01 04:55 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-31 22:40 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-01 15:11 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-01 18:46 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-01 17:15 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 10:25 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-04 15:22 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-05 01:41 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-05 17:04 +1000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-02 15:43 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-02 11:37 -0500
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-02 13:33 -0500
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-04 15:03 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-08 13:46 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-02 18:20 -0500
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-04 17:58 -0400
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-04 15:15 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-04 19:39 -0500
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-03 14:07 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-04 04:33 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-03 05:31 +1000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-02 19:36 -0700
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      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:16 +1000
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          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:46 +1000
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      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:20 +1000
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    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 05:07 +1000
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-30 07:23 -0700
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