Money Saving Tips at the Gas Pump!
Please, READ AND PASS IT ON……
A gas can that has a marked capacity of one U.S. gallon or 0.8 Imperial gallons or 3.7 litres. This can was purchased near the U.S.-Canadian border. It was manufactured by the Midwest Can Company. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With gas expected to reach $5 per gallon by summer (and it some areas it already has), these tips that I received from a friend might come in handy!
TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
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, for about 31 years now, is in Petroleum. Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline, where I work in San Jose, CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period through the pipeline! 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.
So here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon:
Fill up in the Morning When Its Cold!
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.
Pump Your Gas In Low Mode!
When you’re filling up your tank do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the pump trigger has three (3) stages: Low, Middle, and High.
You should be pumping on Low mode, 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 of the 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.
Fill Your Tank At Half Full, Not When Its On Empty!
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.
Don’t Fill Up When Gas Is Being Delivered!
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 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 it take?
SIGN OF THE PAST IS THIS ABANDONED GASOLINE PUMP WITH A PRICE OF 29.9 CENTS PER GALLON. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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