My friend sent me this. He works for an oil corp. copy and paste it and send it to friends via email....................TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
I don't know what you guys are
paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher,
up to $4.00 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31
years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for
every gallon..
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we
deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru 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.
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 gas 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 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.
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 f the dirt that
normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value
for your money.
DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS!
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 friends.
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 $90 - $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 HUND RED
MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How
long would all that take?
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