TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

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TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... But in

California they are also paying higher, up to $4.25 per gallon. My

line of work is in petroleum for about 36 years, so here are some

tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon.



Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the

ground temperature is still cold. Remember that most 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

US 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. 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 of 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 - $110 a barrel - thank you GB and DC)



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



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 HUNDRED MILLION

PEOPLE!!!



Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all

that take?
 
Yeah but I generally buy my gas from Costco and occasionally Sheetz. I don't know who they buy from. The store manager may not even know.
 
This is of course some very good advice, but one problem that I see here is that the listed companies that do and don't do business with Saudi Arabia are Amoco and BP. Those two companies have merged, so where do they get their gas?

It's all good and fine that we try our best to affect the price of fuel by choosing where to buy and when, but that's not really going to do a damned thing. Many times, those stations purchase their fuel from the cheapest distributors they can find and that will vary day to day. Besides, if you think that by boycotting the station down the block is going to hurt that particular oil company, your mistaken. All you are doing is hurting those individuals who work there, and they most probably work for minimum wage, or close to it. If you really want to do a number on the oil companies, make your own fuel, or just don't buy it. Making your own fuel requires you to make some changes to your engine and some equipment to make alcohol, but it can be done. But most of us won't, and most of us won't boycott our local filling station.

Not being an alarmist here but rather a realist. Somewhere the price of gas will make us here in the US change our habits, and when that happens, someone is going to lose a lot of money...because something has to give. Until that time, if you are a speculator, hang in there, we've not yet reached that point.
 
Well Barry O'Bomber is wanting to hit the oil companies with a windfall tax. I'm not so sure that will actually do much to the price of gas. Now if they would start building more refineries and drilling in the Southwest and ANWR to increase our domestic supply the price could come down and thus affect what happens to Arab oil.
Except China and India will readily buy what's available but that would be good for their economy and ours.
 
Well Barry O'Bomber is wanting to hit the oil companies with a windfall tax. I'm not so sure that will actually do much to the price of gas. Now if they would start building more refineries and drilling in the Southwest and ANWR to increase our domestic supply the price could come down and thus affect what happens to Arab oil.
Except China and India will readily buy what's available but that would be good for their economy and ours.

We would need at least 3 more refineries, import just about all our oil from Canada, Mexico, and here then it might impact the price. That of course wouldn't happen over night, it takes about 3-5 years to get a refinery on line depending on the size. of course we would have to battle all the wacko environmentalists who actually work for the oil companies, it is all a big game everyone plays except the only winner is Big Oil, we always lose. The boycotting of stations will not do a damn thing, the only way the price of gas can possibly come down is if the market value comes down which means flooding it with a lot of gas....not going to happen unless like Buck says we alter our driving habits.
 
Oh I know it takes time to get a refinery on line and them putting gas into the market but for every day we delay the more we fall behind. Kind of like the electric companies falling behind on being able to provide us with power. It takes a lot longer to bring a nuclear plant on line so at some point I fear we're going to start having brownouts or rolling blackouts like they have in Cali.
 
I dont nessessarily boycott the big oil companies on purpose but I dont go to them just because they seem to be the most expensive.. My husband commutes 100 miles a day and I commute 45.. soo we have no choice but to go to the cheapest gas station which usually is a TowerMart(cheap gas.. who know where its from) or Arco. We live in a very small town..pop 800.. and the only gas station there is a Shell which is 40 cents per gallon more then the Tower mart in the bigger neighboring town. Im not sure how that hurts my friends that work there cuz they get paid whether I shop there or not..they have a monopoly on gas in our small town because they are the only gas station in about 15 miles so they will always have customers. Its just that it only gets my business when I cant make it to the bigger town. Yes its unforunate but nowadays we have to do what we got to do to survive!!!
 
Towermart shows a
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logo on their website. Now if this is where their gas comes from, who knows...
 
Oh I know it takes time to get a refinery on line and them putting gas into the market but for every day we delay the more we fall behind. Kind of like the electric companies falling behind on being able to provide us with power. It takes a lot longer to bring a nuclear plant on line so at some point I fear we're going to start having brownouts or rolling blackouts like they have in Cali.

already have them here in mass. when the demand is high in the summer
 
When I got gas last night, I tried the pumping reaaaaaaaaaally slow. Don't know if it will make a difference or not. We have the choice of many different gas companies and we generally go wherever it's cheapest and they turn out to not be importers. We also got rid of my old 6 cyl. 12-yr-old Taurus and got a 2007 4 cyl. Chevy Colbalt. Of course, we still have the minivan, but we use it as little as possible. It's too expensive to put gas in it!
 
When I got gas last night, I tried the pumping reaaaaaaaaaally slow. Don't know if it will make a difference or not. We have the choice of many different gas companies and we generally go wherever it's cheapest and they turn out to not be importers. We also got rid of my old 6 cyl. 12-yr-old Taurus and got a 2007 4 cyl. Chevy Colbalt. Of course, we still have the minivan, but we use it as little as possible. It's too expensive to put gas in it!

Tell me about it. I have a Ford Explorer Sport Track. :eek: (I know that isn't good not to have a Chevy but it was a good deal what can I say.) But my point is it sucks the gas and runs around $70 to fill it up.
 
Tell me about it. I have a Ford Explorer Sport Track. :eek: (I know that isn't good not to have a Chevy but it was a good deal what can I say.) But my point is it sucks the gas and runs around $70 to fill it up.

Try 100 plus for the van. It was $37 for the Malibu, week before it was only $27 for the Malibu and 80 for the van.

You drive a Ford to support Jack. :D
 
I'v not filled my car up in a long time, so i dont know how much it would cost to fill it up. I put 5-20 in at a time.
 
!!!!!!!!!

My truck is 22 gallons every 2.5 weeks.

it hurts. My paycheck is $59.16 weekly.
 
Yeah its even starting to hit us at the top of the food chain...I paid $3.26 a gallon yesterday...
 
I paid $3.95 (diesel) on Tuesday, and it went up to $4.08 on Wednesday. Just a little over 14 gal and it was over 50 bucks! My truck has dual tanks and when one of them gets to 1/4 tank, I switch to the other tank and fill up. :eek::mad::(
 
Gas is $3.51 here in Ma. for super which i use in my 2001 Subaru Legacy GT, $4.42 for diesel in my 2001 Ram 2500 and $3.36 for regular in my 1989 Buick Regal GS. To fill my truck it now costs $128, that is up over $50 compared to a year ago! Needless to say the truck does not get driven very much anymore, my wife drives the Buick to work i drive the Subaru. We were planning on going fishing and camping in Maine at the end of June, but are now reconsidering due to the high diesel price. I'd say the price of fuel is already impacting my driving habits to the point where it is altering my vacation plans.....and that is not good. :mad::(
 
I am just glad I don't own and operate a Semi. Can you imagine how much it costs to fill one of those babies up. I would say you are talking $1000.
 
I am just glad I don't own and operate a Semi. Can you imagine how much it costs to fill one of those babies up. I would say you are talking $1000.

Most trucks carry about 300 gallons x $4.42 if they're where Mopardh9 lives so $1,326. So even if you figure a generous 8 mpg (and they'd probably be empty to get that high, 4 or 5 if they're loaded) they're taking a beating.
 
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