Petrol bullshit email

Icarebecauseyoudo · 27th July 2011, 10:10 PM

Who else has had this? I've heard the fill up in the morning thing before, but the rest sounds like someone sniffing 4 star

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PETROL TIPS - info!! (MUST READ)

With Petrol expected to reach $2 per litre by end of 2011, these

tips that I received from a friend might come in handy.

TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL

I don't know what you guys are paying for Petrol.... but

here in Melbourne we are paying up to $1.30 to $1.50 per litre. 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 Litre:

Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work in Melbourne , we deliver

about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline.. One day

is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and Petrol, regular and premium

grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of

16,800,000 Litres.

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 Petrol, when it gets warmer Petrol expands, so

buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your litre is not exactly

a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the

temperature of the Petrol, 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. You should be pumping on low mode,

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 Petrol

tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in

your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Petrololine evaporates

faster than you can imagine. Petrol storage tanks have an internal

floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol 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 litre is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a Petrol truck pumping into

the storage tanks when you stop to buy Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most

likely the Petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is being

delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles

on the bottom.

To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Petrol

buyers. It's really simple to do.

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 it take?

Blythy · 27th July 2011, 10:13 PM

It's supposed to reach $2 a litre by the end of the year?

good, cos earlier today it was 134.9 at shell in mk, which is about $2.20.

Manuel · 27th July 2011, 10:16 PM

Good idea!
except for the fact that underground temperatures change very slowly. It can take weeks for soil temps to rise or fall by 1 degree.

27th July 2011, 10:19 PM

fill up when half full?

fucking idiot

so you want me to at all times drive around with at least 20kg of fuel

think of how many less miles to the gallon i will be doing!!

far outstretch any saving because of air thats for sure

Icarebecauseyoudo · 27th July 2011, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by LookOutAPiano

fill up when half full?

fucking idiot

so you want me to at all times drive around with at least 20kg of fuel

think of how many less miles to the gallon i will be doing!!

far outstretch any saving because of air thats for sure

Very true. Won't take much vapour to fill the air space in the tank anyway, probably just a few mm of liquid

Then the air surely becomes saturated and no more will evaporate