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AMOCO was bought by BP about 10 years ago.
I doubt this info is up to date or valid!

7 posted on 04/09/2008 2:13:19 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (McCain will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)

To: Dallas; HuntsvilleTxVeteran

"AMOCO was bought by BP about 10 years ago."

That was my recollection also. Doe you have a source for this data?

13 posted on 04/09/2008 2:15:13 PM PDT by jaydubya2

To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

AMOCO was bought by BP about 10 years ago. I doubt this info is up to date or valid!

That's not the half of it. I worked for a Texaco jobber back in the 80's. Flying-J and Burns Brothers (and other large "truck stops" now known as "travel centers") buy non-branded fuel at whoever is cheapest at the time.

IOW, Flying-J pulled loads out of Tosco, ARCO, Texaco, Chevron - whoever.

At the same time the Texaco Portland loading terminal would regularly run out of unleaded or diesel and would get a "push" down the pipeline from ARCO or Tosco or Shell or wherever. Sometimes it'd come from a barge with no brand name at all.

General public are dupes and enjoy being stupid, IMO.

33 posted on 04/09/2008 2:27:35 PM PDT by Who dat?

To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

You mean ARCO, I believe, not Amoco. Though it may be valid for Amoco as well.

39 posted on 04/09/2008 2:31:27 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)

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