Pixies Place Forums - Pumping Gas !!!!(A Must Read)

You will find this very interesting and well worth the read.
You also may want to take heed of the information at the end regarding oil
companies that import middle eastern oil...if you care.

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in
California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But 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 gallons.

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 g round. 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 the tank donot squeeze the trigger of the nozzle too a fast
mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low,
middle, and high. In slow mode 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 storag e 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
f 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 ALSO 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 do 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
ou do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION!
(oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel

Here are some large companies that DO NOT I mport Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco............ .....0 barrels

Sinclair................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barrels

ARC0...................0 barrels

If you go to < http://sunoco.com/ > Sunoco.com ( http://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 h ow much they are
importing.
Bu t to have an im pact, 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 at least 10 people . How long would all
that take? Irish :banghead: