But besides pumping top-quality gasoline into your car, you get much more from your stop at our stores. All gasoline starts out as crude oil. Crude oil is shipped from oil fields all over the world to refineries, where it is turned into the gasoline that your cars and trucks burn as fuel. At the refineries, where all gasoline is produced, gasoline is a generic product that meets general standards set forth by ASTM for gasoline quality. It doesn't have a brand name, additives or octane boosters.
Gasoline is gasoline until it reaches the terminal.
It is at this point that the retailer decides on an additive to blend in.