Tips On Pumping Fuel

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deedee1968
deedee1968 Posts: 82 Forumite
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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.
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  • Keith
    Keith Posts: 2,924 Forumite
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    Your lying, thats a chain email.
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
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    It is actually true about filling up when the air temp is cooler.....
  • sturll
    sturll Posts: 2,582 Forumite
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    But fuel is measured in litres, i.e a liquid volume.

    This is !!!!!!!!
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
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    This will be one of them threads that goes on but gets no where. Might aswel delete it now...
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    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. :D
    The man without a signature.
  • MarkyMarkD
    MarkyMarkD Posts: 9,912 Forumite
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    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!
    Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! Posts: 2,579 Forumite
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    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
    MarkyMarkD Posts: 9,912 Forumite
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    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
    KeithP Posts: 37,650 Forumite
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    OK Marky, so we should buy our fuel in the winter. I understand now. :D
  • balsingh
    balsingh Posts: 1,493 Forumite
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    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)!! ;)
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