Pumping Fuel

Someone emailed me this...
Form you own opinion.....?



TIPS ON PUMPING GAS (Good information)

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon..

Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

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The thing about the temperature makes sence, but when filling up 15 Gallons or so I don't think it makes an impact, maybe when they are moving millions of gallons a day.

I think the fast mode pumping thing is BS and vapours don't apply to diesel the same which most of us are running our LR's on. They have 7tonner auto V8 trucks over there, the average American thinks diesel is a special fuel for 18 wheelers.

The thing about the fuel being stirred up when being filled from the tanker that makes sence, most garages here close the station while they are filling anyway so we are saved from the worst of the stirring up.

discomania said:

The thing about the temperature makes sense, but when filling up 15 Gallons or so I don't think it makes an impact, maybe when they are moving millions of gallons a day.

Here in UK the fuel refineries deliberately send out fuel HOT to cheat the garages.



The thing about the fuel being stirred up when being filled from the tanker that makes sense, most garages here close the station while they are filling anyway so we are saved from the worst of the stirring up.

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Here in UK it used to be unlawful to dispense fuel from ANY of the pumps while a tanker was delivering a load of fuel.
They may have relaxed that for all I know, but I think they can not take fuel out from a tank that is being filled, at the same time.

Who has a petrol station? I sold mine in 1975.

CharlesY

battenberg said:

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

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Er how can the vapours be "sucked" up by a pump which is dispensing?
Yes everyone nows that petrol is volotile and forms vapours which probbably escape as they are lighter than air but i cannot see how this would effect the amount of liquid i get.Every time i take the filler cap off i lose some vapours which ive paid for but its hardly a lot!

battenberg said:

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon.

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Oh, me fekin heart bleeds fer yer mate!

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon.

$3.50 per US gallon = $4.40 per Imperial gallon in the US, or about TEN CENTS PER LITRE!

At the present exchange rate of about $2 = £1, that means we are currently paying fully TEN DOLLARS per US Gallon.

Taxes account for about EIGHTY PERCENT of the price of road fuels, and they even apply one tax on top of the first one! Tax on tax ... that's Great Britain for you.

If you boys in the US want to know about taxation, try earning money over here.

You'll soon go home and hand over everything the IRS asks for.

CharlesY