Posted on 02/16/2015 9:51:12 AM PST by Paul46360
"Persons or entities that purchased gasoline or diesel fuel (“Plaintiffs”) on or after January 1, 2001, in the following States and jurisdictions –– Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands (the “States at Issue”) – brought lawsuits claiming that selling motor fuel without disclosing or adjusting for the effects of temperature violates consumer protection and other laws. All of the cases relating to the States at Issue and all of the Companies are consolidated in a multidistrict proceeding titled In re: Motor Fuel Temperature Sales Practices Litigation, MDL No. 1840, which is before the United States District Court for the District of Kansas (the “Court”)."
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They’ve already sued over the issue of two-by-fours not actually having a cross section of 2”x4”.
Another damned class action suit that benefits the shyster bastards that ginned it up, and no one else.
Oil companies don’t control after refinery storage or gas station pumps.
>> They’ve already sued over the issue of two-by-fours not actually having a cross section of 2”x4”.
Wouldn’t it be fun to cut a three foot (that’s 24.000”) piece of 2x4 — oops, I mean 1 7/8 x 3 5/8 — and beat the shysters black and blue with it?
Make that 36.000”, not 24.
I sprained my brain trying to interpret that headline.
Different jurisdictions and different vendors have addressed this issue differently. Some just paste an advisory label on the pump. Some have compensators that adjust the indicated dispensed volume to what it would be at a standard reference temperature. (If the fuel is very cold, this indicated dispensed volume will be more, not less, than what was physically delivered.) It is a valid question; why it needed a lawsuit to resolve it I do not know. Maybe it was believed adequate that on average throughout the year, more fuel was dispensed than was charged for, even though on a given (hot) day, less might be.
They do license their brands to fuel stations.
>> I sprained my brain trying to interpret that headline.
That just ain’t right. Why, you should get you a lawyer ‘n SUE!!!
Early standards called for green rough lumber to be of full nominal dimension when dry. However, the dimensions have diminished over time. In 1910, a typical finished 1-inch- (25 mm) board was 13⁄16 in (21 mm). In 1928, that was reduced by 4%, and yet again by 4% in 1956. In 1961, at a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Committee on Grade Simplification and Standardization agreed to what is now the current U.S. standard: in part, the dressed size of a 1 inch (nominal) board was fixed at 3⁄4 inch; while the dressed size of 2 inch (nominal) lumber was reduced from 1 5⁄8 inch to the current 1 1⁄2 inch.[9]
I learned that in junior high, and it's been a while but it seems to me that the actual dimensions for lumber are posted in the descriptions.
Unless they have heaters in the gas pumps at the station, this really isn’t a problem.
Gasoline is stored below ground and so the temperature does not vary much through the year.
Propane which is stored above ground has a temperature compensated meter.
I could buy an argument that it was bogus except that we are talking about below ground temperatures across all seasons and territories. They do vary, and the coefficient of expansion of liquid hydrocarbons is significant.
Bad news. The size is down to 3 1/2 x 1 1/2. As long as it holds up the walls of a McMansion, who cares?
The suit, the story and so far the discussion is completely missing the point.
You purchase fuel by the gallon. When it is measured by the gallon and priced by the gallon, you have not been cheated. You got what you paid for.
Now if you want to claim that hot fuel has less energy per gallon, then you have to buy and measure fuel by the pound.
And it is true that your tank full of hot fuel has less energy than a tank full of cold fuel.
But then you have to find someone who prices fuel by the pound.
Instead of a quarter pounder it is a 3/16 pounder.
Some places have gotten around this by simply posting advisories on fuel pumps. Still, we have a valid question of equity here in respect to value received.
Park your car in the sunlight.
But warming your own fuel does not make your fuel go further, unfortunately.
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