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 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 gallon s.
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 3 stages:
low, middle, and high. You should be pumpi ng 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.
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.
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.
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.
Companies that 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 exports amount to over $18
BILLION! (Oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel. Don't buy from CITGO).
Companies that DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco...............0 barrels
Conoco...............0 barrels
Sinclair...............0 barrels
BP/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.
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&nb
sp;
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?