TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

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[Man50D]

I received the information below in an email. The origin of the email is from someone who works for a large fuel delivery company. Some of you may already be aware of these tips. Feel free to pass it along. I hope it helps.




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 other 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 g a s tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have ! in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporat es 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.

WHERE TO BUY USA GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON

Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor!

An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.

Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my fri! ends.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco ...........................! .62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $100+ a barrel)

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco................0 barrels

Conoco................0 barrels

Sinclair........ ..........0 barrels

B P/Phillips...........0 barrels

Hess.....................0 barrels

ARC0..................! ..0 barrels

If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you.

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.

Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

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 it 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 all that take?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Can’t imagine someone being that rude on purpose.

I can’t imagine two people being so ignorant on purpose.

How long ‘till we see you two yucking it up over an email you just got regarding a rant by George Carlin with “Bad American” in the title....

[mupcat]

There is no company called BP/Phillips.

Used to be or better said there should be a comma between the BP and Phillips. That's why Snopes said it was multiple. Not entirely false having some basis of truth.

[count-your-change]

And please send

please bury this “tip” deeper than the storage tanks.

[Dog Gone]

BP and Phillips never merged. BP merged with ARCO and Vastar, and Phillips merged with Conoco.

So there’s no basis of truth.

The only thing that remotely supports it is that BP merged with ARCO, which would have combined the BP properties with the ARCO properties on the North Slope of Alaska. However, the SEC said that would be too much consolidation in one area, and BP was forced to sell off the ARCO properties in Alaska to Phillips in order to get regulatory approval for the merger.

Phillips was a third party to that transaction.

[mupcat]

BP and Phillips never merged.

That's why I said to put a comma between the two. Two separate companies.

[mupcat]

:-) Nope, not going to play with you. Not worth it.

[grellis]

I, for one, appreciate the information--particularly about which companies import from the mideast and Venezuela.

Thanks!

[VeritatisSplendor]

I’m guessing that tanks are deep enough that ground temperature is fairly constant day to day. That’s why I like to buy my gas in the winter and take advantage of the seasonal changes. ;)

Mrs VS

[Dog Gone]

And yet, Amoco and BP ARE the same company. One imports and the other does not?

Tnis email is contradictory on its face.

[thackney]

Why do you appreciate a bunch of lies, including the information about who imports what?

[Arrowhead1952]

Mark for later

[csvset]

Pumping For Gas = Mesa woman arrested for stabbing man in sex-for-gas deal

[John W]

That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

The moronic thing about this is the last three paragraphs in the original post. Now go back to my original reply in the thread. Talk about inconvenient truths...

[grellis]

That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

Yes, I did...but I have trained myself over the years to not respond to certain kinds of posts--most of them on this thread, for instance.

Do you ever get the feeling some folks have too much time on their hands?

Happy Easter!

[thackney]

Given that some of the companies don't exist, some where shown combined in ways they are not, it was obvious that it was based on false information.

What is less obvious is that a given gasoline retail station does not only sell gasoline from that company's refineries.

I have been on the design and construction team for several truck loading station in multiple states. These are the distribution points for trucks loading fuel to gasoline service station in the area.

All of the companies in the area load from the same gasoline source. Each of the major companies provide additives to squirt into the base gasoline to make their custom formula. But the source of the gasoline, refined at refinery feeding the refined products pipeline that fills the tanks at the truck loading station is all from the same oils.

Just because a companies does not import crude oil from the Middle East does not mean that all of their service station do not sell gasoline refined from oil brought from the Middle East.

Perhaps you think people spending time correcting the false information posted on the Internet are wasting their time. I find it more disturbing that people not only post those lies but them defend them in ignorance.

As an example, ConocoPhillips and BP (incorrectly called Conoco and BP/Phillis) both are importers of crude oil from Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

For that information and more, you can find list of what each company imports each month from each country at:

Company Level Imports Historical
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/cli_historical.html

All of 2006 can be found in a single spreadsheet:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/historical/2006/data/impa06d.xls
The top of each column lets you filter this massive amount of data such that you can see only the crude oil imported by BP.