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I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline…but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $4.50 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 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. 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.

9
Jun

WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE

   Posted by: admin   in Automotive

This was written before oil shot to $138/barrel.

Just in case you would like to know.

WHERE TO BUY
AMERICAN GASOLINE.  THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.  READ ON.

Gas rationing in the 70’s worked even though we grumbled about it.  It might even have been good for us!


Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products?


Shouldn’t we return the favor?
Can’t we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, their livings?  How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit?

An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS.  Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia .  Just purchase gas from companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I’m sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead.   Don’t you think it might be of interest to know which oil companies import Middle Eastern oil and which do not?

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

And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction!  (We pay Chavez’s regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)

The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC.  If you do the math at $95 per barrel, that’s over $524 million PER DAY ($191 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!!

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
ARC0
………………….        0 barrels

Maverick………………….     0 barrels
Flying J. …………………      0 barrels
Valero…………………….. 0 barrels
· I AM GOING TO ADD THE FOLLOWING… J

  • Murphy Oil USA  sold at Wal-Mart is from South Arkansas and owned USA
  • Not only that they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.

All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers.  With the help of the internet, 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 only 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-the entire population of the United States of America !!!!


Again, all you have to do is forward this message to 10 people. How long would that really take you?  If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people, within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be contacted during the next eight days!

31
Jul

Check this out

   Posted by: admin   in Automotive

Look how this company saved a ton of money on oil changes.  Why is our government not doing this?  What a crock of shit.  They are milking our tax dollars for no reason. Fleet Study