Worth reading even
if you have seen this before--in order to remember!! I
have modified the info slightly as some of this came from a
chain letter that keeps showing up every year or so.
However, the information is, I feel, informative and can be used
to your advantage when you buy gas in the future.
PUMPING GAS:
by a worker at a gas refinery in California
Here at
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.
I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California; we
are paying more than $4.10 per gallon.
My line of work has been in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here
are some tricks to get more of
your money's worth for every gallon:
1)
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.
2)
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 pumping 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.
3)
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.
4)
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.
5) 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 Oil |
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.
Don't buy
from Citgo.
All of
this information is available from the
Department of Energy and each company is
required to state where they get their oil
and how much they are importing. The above links, for the
companies that do not buy oil from Middle Eastern sources, will lead
you to station locators. It should be noted that some of the
listed companies are not located in your home state.
In lieu of trying to start
another chain letter, I would suggest that you might recommend this
website to your friends and they in turn to their friends.
