Money Saving 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 $4.00 per gallon. But 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.
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 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 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. T hose 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 wher e I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon
is act usally 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 - $100 a barrel)
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco..................0
barrels Conoco..................0
barrels Sinclair..................0
barrels BP/Phillips.............0
barrels Hess.....................0
barrels ARCO....................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.
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? | 
