Tips On Pumping Fuel

deedee1968

Have Been Given This Info By Someone Who Was In Petroleum Business.
Only Fill Up Your Vehicle In Early Morning When Ground Temperature Is Still Cold. Fuel Storage Tanks Are Below Ground And Fuel More Dense When Colder. Expands When Warmer So Less Fuel.
When Filling Up Do Not Fill In Fast Mode. Pump At A Slower Rate Mimimizing The Vapours Created When Pumping. If You Are Pumping On A Fast Rate, Some Other Liquid That Goes To Your Tank Becomes Vapour Which Is Sucked Back Into Underground Storage Tank.
As Mention On Another Post Fill When Tank Half Full.
Hope This Helps.

Keith

Your lying, thats a chain email.

harveybobbles

It is actually true about filling up when the air temp is cooler.....

sturll

But fuel is measured in litres, i.e a liquid volume.

This is !!!!!!!!

harveybobbles

This will be one of them threads that goes on but gets no where. Might aswel delete it now...

vikingaero

Best tip to pump fuel:

Listen at school, get quallys, get a decent job with a company car as a perk, have all fuel paid for by the company.

MarkyMarkD

Strangely the OP has missed out the even more ludicrous part of the chain e-mail which claims that the cost to fill a tank was halved when using this technique.

As with most urban myths, there is a little bit of truth to this. Fuel is denser when it's cold, and it's sold by volume not weight. But the difference in the UK with the range of temperatures we get isn't going to be very significant.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

harveybobbles wrote: »

It is actually true about filling up when the air temp is cooler.....

No it isn't. Fuel isn't stored in the air, its stored underground.

MarkyMarkD

PPPL

You must have noticed that tap water is a lot warmer in the summer than in the winter?

Things underground do vary in temperature, although obviously nowhere near as much as air temperature changes.

KeithP

OK Marky, so we should buy our fuel in the winter. I understand now.

balsingh

well, i suppose if lots of poeple do take this advice, there is one benefit ... the pumps will be less busy in the evening (when I get my fuel)!!