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| | From:  spdelp (Original Message) | Sent: 5/24/2008 3:56 PM |
Subject: FW: TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
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>> 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
>> is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get
>> more of your money's worth for every gallon:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby
>> minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers.
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>> It's really simple to do.
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>> 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!
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>> If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED
>> MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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>>>>Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it
>>>>take? |
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