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Subject: Good Gas Tips!
LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY !!!
Most likely a lot of you already know all this
-- I did not - I only
knew #1 - so I learned 3 new things today.....
One of the hardest things in life to learn is
which bridge to cross and
which bridge to burn.
I've been in petroleum pipeline business for
about 31 years, currently
working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline here
in San Jose, CA. We deliver
about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period
from the pipe line; one day
it's diesel, the next day it's jet fuel and
gasoline. We have 34
storage tanks here with a total capacity of
16,800,000 gallons. Here
are some tricks to help you get your money's
worth.
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
businesses, but service stations don't have
temperature compensation at
their pumps .
2. If a tanker truck is fil ling 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 from the bottom of their
tank into your car's
tank .
3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or
half-empty),
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 it
has three
delivery settings: slow, medium and high.
When you're filling up do not
squeeze the tr igger of the nozzle to the high
setting. You should be
pumping at the slow setting, thereby
minimizing vapors created 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 help ease your 'pain at the
pump'.
Submitted By “Squirly”
LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY !!!
Most likely a lot of you already know all this
-- I did not - I only
knew #1 - so I learned 3 new things today.....
One of the hardest things in life to learn is
which bridge to cross and
which bridge to burn.
I've been in petroleum pipeline business for
about 31 years, currently
working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline here
in San Jose, CA. We deliver
about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period
from the pipe line; one day
it's diesel, the next day it's jet fuel and
gasoline. We have 34
storage tanks here with a total capacity of
16,800,000 gallons. Here
are some tricks to help you get your money's
worth.
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
businesses, but service stations don't have
temperature compensation at
their pumps .
2. If a tanker truck is fil ling 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 from the bottom of their
tank into your car's
tank .
3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or
half-empty),
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 it
has three
delivery settings: slow, medium and high.
When you're filling up do not
squeeze the tr igger of the nozzle to the high
setting. You should be
pumping at the slow setting, thereby
minimizing vapors created 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 help ease your 'pain at the
pump'.
Submitted By “Squirly”
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