pumping gas tips

[mrsleeve]

$9,35 for 1 gallon 95 octane

While I feel for you on a personal level.


Blame your GOVT for that. You are an Oil producing nation. There is no reason for your pricing to be that high other than the TAXATION levied by your govt.

I have no sympathy for anyone that bitches about fuel being that high in Europe, you have all brought it on your selves at the voting booth.


Never fear though we will be in the same boat soon enough :(

we don't have ANY refinerees in america anymore, why? as cartman would say, "the tree hugging hippies made us get rid of them"

so we ship our oil else where, then it gets refined, then shipped back!
that is dumb!

Gulf coast of TX has like 40 of them. Cushing OK has many, SoCal has about 12 that I know of, MI has few, NJ is fucking full of them (thats why it smells like jesery) My state has 4 the dakotas have many, LA MS and AL have a shit load of them Chicago has many in the area as well.

Shall I go on ????

[z31maniac]

I'm going to guess he meant no NEW refineries are being built?

[HarryPotter]

I do believe what our man Endre was saying here was

"QUIT YOUR BITCHING YOU FUCKING LAZY, RICH AMERICANS!"


or something like that

Thats for 95 you dope.

Further analysis of the thread has informed me that their octane ratings are not the same as us fat, lazy, basement dwelling americans. Sorry, carry on.

[TwoJ's]

Thats for 95 you dope.

RON vs. AKI... look it up.

NM, your edit beat my post.

[Winning]

Did you get the email about how the world is going to end in 2012 too!?

[Thizzelle]

Just reposting an email, don't know if true. you can argue all the points but untill there is actual test data (where to get that, I don't know) both people can be right :)

what I got from the slow rate was to minimize gas disturbence which in return minimizes the evaporation surface area. kinda like pouring a beer or champagne. If you dump it in you lose alot of beer to foam, tilt glass pour slow=minimal foam. so minimal evap. does that matter idk.

I think it's so insignificat that it doesn't matter.

[mrsleeve]

I'm going to guess he meant no NEW refineries are being built?

thank our govt and the EPA. there were several that were built in the late 70's that never ran a barrel because of the EPA restrictions that were passed about the same time as completion and it was cheaper to not fire them up and moth ball them. NY state has 2 of those IIRC

[StereoInstaller1]

Thats for 95 you dope.

WTF, did you have to look that up? Hmmm...must not know much about the rest of the world, huh?

Big fucking deal, they have a higher initial rating...it is STILL well over double what we pay, ya fuck!

[Albuquerque30]

We're at $3.29/gal here. It went up about $0.30 in the past month.

[mamzak]

Up North, where everyone is smart and polite our gas temperatures are kept at a constant 15 degrees (C obviously). Sooooo. There?

[TheGrillMan]

im paying 3.85 for 93 here in Ga

[george graves]

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.

I wonder how much this is? A teaspoon? Lets see PV=nRT...errrr....Crap - that's for gasses. What's the calculation for liquid expansion?

ΔV = βV0ΔT


The thermal expansion of gas-o-lean is 950 β (10−6 K−1) (http://physics.info/expansion/)

So if the temp changes 5 degrees between day and night (underground, I think that's fair) you'd have a change of filling up a 14 gallon e30's tank....

day 50 degrees Fahrenheit = 283.15 kelvin
night 55 degrees Fahrenheit = 285.927778 kelvin

Lets just say 5 degrees K.

0.00095(1/K) * 5K = 0.00475 (no units) time 14 gallons = 0.0047 gallons difference between day and night.

Or about 3 teaspoons. Yea, I'm totally going to do that to save 1.9 cents..

[HarryPotter]

WTF, did you have to look that up? Hmmm...must not know much about the rest of the world, huh?

Big fucking deal, they have a higher initial rating...it is STILL well over double what we pay, ya fuck!

Further reading into the thread enlightened me with information that I was not aware of prior to posting my comment.

I was merely trying to win. Live to Win.

[Balleristic31]

about $4.15 here for 91 :(

[FredK]

The use a different rating sysytem there, so it's not like 95 octane would be here.

We use RON+MON/2= octane rating

yup