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Why does the gas pump always initiate at $0.03? (Vanity)
Me | 10/6/2010 | Me

Posted on 10/06/2010 5:45:36 PM PDT by Sergio

I've noticed that when I purchase gas, at any filling station, the pump will jump from $00.00 to $00.03. It completely skips $00.01 and $00.02. This happens at every pump, at every gas station I have used in Southern California. I am able to meter gas out slow enough to stop at any hundredth of a gallon, so I don't think I'm pumping too fast.

I know that our online community has experts in every field so here are my questions. Am I being robbed of 3 cents? If not, is there an explanation on why this happens?

I tried Google and Wikipedia, but found no answers. Please excuse me if I don't reply to responses but I won't be back to the PC for about 5 or 6 hours. Thanks in advance to anyone with insight.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; embezzlement; gas; gasprices; pump; weightsandmeasures
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1 posted on 10/06/2010 5:45:41 PM PDT by Sergio
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To: Sergio

There’s three cents worth of gas in the hose?


2 posted on 10/06/2010 5:49:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: Sergio

“I’ve noticed that when I purchase gas, at any filling station, the pump will jump from $00.00 to $00.03. It completely skips $00.01 and $00.02.”

That’s because there is a certain amount left in the hose that is weighted and measured. The guy in front of you got the .02; you get the .02 back from the guy behind you.


3 posted on 10/06/2010 5:50:43 PM PDT by jessduntno (9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
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To: Sergio

I’m keeping my three cents worth out of here.


4 posted on 10/06/2010 5:51:47 PM PDT by donhunt (No animals were harmed in the making of this message... yet.)
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To: Sergio

Soros.


5 posted on 10/06/2010 5:54:21 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Sergio

Never noticed that. Maybe you blinked.


6 posted on 10/06/2010 5:57:25 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Sergio

It’s hot. When it cools a bit more you’ll only notice 2 cents.


7 posted on 10/06/2010 5:58:23 PM PDT by allmost
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To: smokingfrog; Sergio

As a motorcyclist, this is always on my mind.

My bike takes high octane only. It’s got a small tank, not a 1 gallon or anything that small, but when I do pump gas into the tank - I wind up with the cheap garbage that the guy in front of me pumped. Maybe half a tank of my expensive gas is actually the low stuff.

I’ve found that I need to use gas stations not based on price, but on their use of individual hoses for each grade.

The hose and filter holds 1.3 to 3 gallons of the previous pumper’s fuels.


8 posted on 10/06/2010 6:01:58 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Sergio

I suspect it is the pump pressurizing the hose which will stretch some small amount and thus let some gas pass thru the metering system. But if you simply let go the nozzle lever when you have all you want, that pressurized amount probably bleeds back past the meter (no reduction for you). On the other hand, if the pump stops before you let go, that amount drains into your tank.

Also, think I have read that gasoline is slightly compressionable so that would add a little more to the surge.


9 posted on 10/06/2010 6:02:21 PM PDT by dmet
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To: Sergio

I dunno, but the answer must be $


10 posted on 10/06/2010 6:02:37 PM PDT by gunnyg (WE ARE BEHIND "ENEMY WITHIN" LINES, SURROUNDED, Our 'Novembers' Are Gone,,,So Few Can "grok" It.)
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To: Sergio

They’re out to get you. It never happens to the rest of us.


11 posted on 10/06/2010 6:03:36 PM PDT by chickenlips
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To: chickenlips

LOL! That’s what the voice in my head keeps telling me.


12 posted on 10/06/2010 6:05:23 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Sergio

I always do what the voices in my head tell me to.


13 posted on 10/06/2010 6:09:22 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am Derek Fenton! (me) Enjoying freedom ourselves requires tolerating it for others. (Jedidah))
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To: Sergio

Taxes, there is a tax just for using gas. /s/

seriously though, if 30 to 45 cents per gallon of gas is for taxes were are tey added, first last or every ounce?


14 posted on 10/06/2010 6:11:12 PM PDT by archaicoldschool
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To: Sergio
"...is there an explanation on why this happens?"

It's Bush's fault...

15 posted on 10/06/2010 6:13:14 PM PDT by BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL (Onward thru the smoke, mirrors, and B.S....)
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To: Sergio

OCD much?


16 posted on 10/06/2010 6:14:20 PM PDT by sbMKE
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To: 1rudeboy

Halliburton


17 posted on 10/06/2010 6:17:02 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: Sergio

I was at a station last week minding my own business as a chick pulls up and starts to pump- I hear an expletive and turn around and she is shooting gas everywhere, then throws the nozzle on the ground and runs toward the station.

Not wishing to immolate I walked over and shut the pump off. The previous customer had let the nozzle click off and hung it up, the girl had just hit the switch without checking the lever and freaked.

Glad she wasn’t smoking while texting and pumping gas.


18 posted on 10/06/2010 6:18:01 PM PDT by One Name
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To: Sergio; a fool in paradise

Good question. The first two cents go to the mighty Bilderbergbers. (Historical background: it used to go to the Masons, and then to the Rotschilds, but then the likes of George Soros, Bush Sr, and the secretive Brasilian billionaire Klaus Von Santos became involved.)


19 posted on 10/06/2010 6:22:47 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Sergio

Rove, you magnificent bastard...


20 posted on 10/06/2010 6:27:42 PM PDT by JRios1968 (What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
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