++ Wal-Mart Gas Station ++

[Z-11 396]

I found that this company /// Murphy Oil /// provides the gas for the Wal-Mart store's, anybody know much about this outfit?....Kasey
http://www.murphyoilcorp.com/

[PeteLeathersac]

Wow...Wally gas, what next?.
Wasn't the station Gomer and Goober worked at called Wally's? .

So what are you guys at for gas these days?.
I paid more here yesterday than I think I ever have at 1.09 per litre..
At today's $ exchange, that's the equiv. of about $4.15 US$ per US Gallon!.

I wonder if the guys in Venezuela are paying 15 Cents a friggin' gallon yet...seriously!.

~ Pete

[69LM1]

The Murphy Oil Refinery is here in Louisiana. It's the one that had the tanks leak during Katrina. I grew up within 5 miles of there. If that's where they get their gas, it's not from China, and several other "brands" are refined there as well. I suspect that there is less difference between brands then we think........

[69LM1]

And this line from the web site shows that

"These terminals, along with numerous third-party terminals, provide fuel supply to retail and branded wholesale stations throughout 23 states."

And this:
"The Company, headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, was originally incorporated in Louisiana in 1950 as Murphy Corporation. It was reincorporated in Delaware in 1964, at which time it adopted the name Murphy Oil Corporation. But, the Company's roots go back to a lumber and banking business in South Arkansas and, more directly, to 1907, when the first oil production was established in the Caddo Field in North Louisiana. Thereafter, oil and gas were important phases of the business. Until the mid 1930's however, oil and gas remained subordinate to timber operations and banking. "

Nothing chinese from that, as much as I'd love to bash wall mart, this gas, if Murphy, is good ol USA.

[1969l78]

Its all the same-just each company puts there own addatives in there blend

[Salvatore]

Hey Rich, I am only being a smart a_ _ about WM gas being from China. My point is that everything else WM sells is, so why not the gas! I hope they even bring in some Chinese immigrants to pump it. The only thing I can't get at the WM by me is some good Chinese egg rolls and pork fried rice. But....maybe that will change.

[Jonesy]

I buy my gas from Spur Gas Stations (Murphy Oil) all the time. That is Murphy Oil. They are well known up here in the North. Murphy Oil has a large refinery up here in Superior, WI. They are doing a major 6 Billion Dollar upgrade to this refinery over the next 6 years and are bringing 300-400 jobs to the area. They are going to bring their capacity up to 235,000 barrels a day. They employ alot of people up here right now.

From their Website:

Murphy Oil's northern refinery, located in Superior, Wisconsin, has direct access to the Magellan Pipeline. This 35,000 barrel per-day facility produces a full slate of conventional gasoline and distillate products which Murphy actively markets in the North Central United States. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. owns product terminals at Superior, WI and Duluth, MN and also throughputs products at several Magellan Pipeline terminals in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. In addition, Murphy Oil USA, Inc. has exchange agreements to lift products at several terminals in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan

[J_D]

I have purchased my gas from Wal-Mart for the past three or four years now. Have absolutely had no problems what-so-ever. I bought gas at a QT(Quick Trip) a month or so ago for our GMC Envoy and am still having problems. We have replaced the cam phaser, the O2 sensors and the catalitic converter and still not sure we have the problem solved yet.