RKO's Digs At TKK

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:50:55 -0400, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> said:

> It's also interesting that for a number of years any Exxon gas that 
> you've bought in New England has actually been from the new Gulf, 
> a.k.a. Cumberland Farms.  I don't know how they could get away with 
> this, apparently they have an agreement to use the Exxon name and to 
> bill thru the Exxon/Mobil credit cards and Speedpass, but it still 
> seems from the consumer's point of view to be false advertising.

Surely everybody knows that only a small fraction of the fuel sold in
the U.S. under any brand was actually refined by the company of that
name...?  The brand of the retailer no connection whatever with the
refiner.  (In many cases one brand isn't even the same company
downstream and upstream.)

-GAWollman