Useful and interesting information !
TIPS ON PUMPING
GAS (from a friend of Living Oneness Foundation)
I don't know what
you guys are paying
for gasoline.... but here in
California we are paying
up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. 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 thepipeline.. 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. You should be pumping on low mode,
thereby minimizing the
vapours that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump
have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some
of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours
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.
To
have an impact, we need
to reach literally millions of gas buyers.
It's really simple to
do.
I'm
sending this note to about thirty people.
If each of you send it
to at least ten more (30
x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10
= 3,000) and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation
of people, we will have reached
over THREE MILLION consumers
!!!!!!! If those three million get
excited and pass this on
to ten friends each, then 30 million people
will have been contacted!
If
I t goes one level further, you guessed
it ..... THREE HUNDRED
MILLION
PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to
10 people How long would
it take?