Getting The Most For Your Money At The Gas Pump
Below are some useful tips I received for getting the best value at the pumps & wanted to share them with our readers.
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 expan ds, 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 spe ed, 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 .
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 int o 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.
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March 11th, 2008 at 3:08 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:26 am
This makes great sense and is very useful advise.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hey there, I’ve just been directed here by your friend Garry Conn and must say that your post is very, very informative. Great tips that I will be applying in the future. Thanks!!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Dear Johnny,
Thank you for the good advice. You’d think that most of us would have known these common sense facts, but it just never occurred to me to concern myself with temperature.
I was looking at the titles of some of your other posts and I realize I need to bookmark this site to keep coming back and learning from “the horse’s mouth” so to speak. There are so many areas that a woman my age was never educated about.
I’m really going to have to thank my friend Garry Conn for telling me about this site.
Keep up the good advice!
Brennan
March 11th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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March 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I heard that buying in the morning when it is cool saves about a dollar or two per tank – would it be that much?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
With gas over 3.00 a gallon a lot would depend on what size tank you have, with my truck having a 32g tank I don’t think saying it could save you a dollar or two per fill up would be out of line. Maybe we should send it to Mythbusters? Who wants to send it?
March 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Johnny,
Just stopped by from Gary Conn’s site also – and they are good tips.
However, in reading your commments, it disturbs me to see the first comment got released from the spam folder. Although it looks nice, it is spam – see this search on Google: “I found this site on Technorati and read a few of your other posts.”
Search his name too “Aaron Wakling” – all his comments on all these blogs are the same.
You can delete this comment if you want. Just burns me a little when I see these blatant linking attempts.
Tom
March 16th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Woah! I’m always looking to get the best value for money that I can and have heard about re-fuelling in the early morning before, but had never read the other more “little-known” facts!
Thanks very much Johnny, I’ll certainly put these into practice from now on given the very high price of fuel in the UK!
August 10th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Just re-reading a past comment. Johnny, You say $3 per gallon. Ha, I pay around $6-7 in my country… ouch!
August 10th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Yes, Japanese Ice Cream, that hurts. I have friends in Africa & it is around 7 a gallone there as well, in Europe around 10.00. I’ll tell you what hurts even more is knowing that in Venezuala gas is 0.17 cents a gallon & in Kuwait it is in the 0.40 cents a gallon range. I am assuming you are in Japan, with gas the way it is it would be nice if the U.S. had a JR system like you do, I hope to have the opportunity to visit your country again.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Oh man… $6 to $7 / gallon. Wow.. that is expensive. You know, you’d think by now there would be far more advancements in technology than what we currently have. Back when I was a kid, I used to watch a cartoon called The Jetsons and back then I always believed that by the time I would be all grown up, cars for sure would be flying around just like on the show. lol