$4.06 A Gallon

FAVREFAN

Well-Known Member
Facts about pumping gas.
My tax/accounting guy sent me this.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground, and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businessnes, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up. Most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt form the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half full, because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that is has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money. Hope this will ease your pain at the pump.
Great informational post. Thank you.
 

edd_tv

Cardboard picker upper
i ride a motorcycle to work as much as i can. four gallons of gas is a tankful. it was fifteen dollars to fill up this morning. incredible.
 

poozer2000

Active Member
So true Lifer... One thing no one has mentioned about London is the permit needed to commute into the city and the cost of that in addition to the gasoline (petrol). I don't want to quote a number that is incorrect so perhaps one of you Brits out there could help me out. Also, the traffic in London is just as bad a here in New York City during rush hour. I did hear that there was a mention of the government mulling over a charge of $40 a day extra for SUV's coming into London due to the high petrol consumption!


yes there is a "conestion charge" in the center of london it is £8+ a day
but free if you drive an electric car, in our budget recently Alistair Darling anounced that all us brits who drive "chelsea tractors" (suvs) will have to pay extra road tax upto £450 a year to keep our cars on the road this is plus the rise in fuel tax
it seems that the goverment wants us to green or something
 

rod

Retired 22 years
The trouble with the grease car is that if it did become real popular the price of "free grease" would skyrocket. Just like OPEC oil there is only so much french fry grease sitting around. You can't avoid the laws of supply and demand.
 

Big Babooba

Well-Known Member
The trouble with the grease car is that if it did become real popular the price of "free grease" would skyrocket. Just like OPEC oil there is only so much french fry grease sitting around. You can't avoid the laws of supply and demand.
I agree. I don't think it will get too popular. There is more involved then just driving up to a pump. They don't smell too bad though.
 

feeder53

ADKtrails
Yes, Up in NYS it is expensive, and then you must fill your oil tank for the furnace...........OUCH!

JP-8 is quite expensive and we use 1000`s of gallons per day.....Our taxes at work.
 

poozer2000

Active Member
Milk is a little out of control while we are on the topic.


what about bread and vegatables too..... strewth the cost of living!!!

the good thing is is that when i come across to NYC later in the year everthing is going to cheap!!! sneakers, clothes and food
 

david cassin

dublinbrown
ups ireland as part of a european deal with statoil got their diesel at 40-50 cent a litre there last year or year before when it was 0.80 cent a litre.they could go into any statoil garage fill up the vans etc use the statoil card and even though a particular garage was charging 0.80 cent ups were still charged the 0.40/0.50 cent.
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