It's not just that they're not owned/operated by the oil companies in the US; they don't even obtain their supply of fuel directly from the oil company. Every g

It's not just that they're not owned/operated by the oil companies in the US; they don't even obtain their supply of fuel directly from the oil company. Every gas station takes delivery of commodity-standard fuel from midstream distributors that operate pipelines and storage terminals. The only thing that differentiates between the Texaco gasoline on one side of the street and the Shell on the other is the proprietary additive blend that is mixed in at the storage terminal when an order is filled. Gas retailers in a given region are generally all beholden to whatever the market dictates the 'generic' fuel pricing will be. The majors have a lot less control over that than most folks think they do.