[WMJR] Fw: Gasoline Class # 101

[BERT CHERRY]

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From: DELORIS ANDERSON<mailto:delorisa at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: Fw: Gasoline Class # 101



Ed sent this to me.  This appears to be good advice to all of us in California
who have to pay such high prices for gasoline.


It would appear that we need to purchase our gasoline at Arco, especially
since the Saudi's are boycotting American goods.

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS


I don't know what you guys are paying

for gasoline.... but here in  California we are paying up

to $3.75 to $4.10 per

gallon. 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<
BR> 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 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 gas tank is HALF  FULL. 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.


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.


Companies that 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 exports amount to over $18 BILLION! (Oil

is now $90 -

$100 a barrel. Don't buy from CITGO).


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


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.


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

gas 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?

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