I thought everyone could benefit from using these tips!
Gas Pumping Tips from someone in the Petroleum pipeline business!!
I’ve been in petroleum pipeline business for about 31 years, currently working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline here in San Jose, CA. We deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period from the pipe line; one day it’s diesel, the next day it’s jet fuel and gasoline. We have 34 storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons. Here are some tricks to help you get your money’s worth.
1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you’re filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline,
diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Eve ry truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don’t have temperature compensation at their pumps.
2. If a tanker truck is filling the station’s tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car’s tank.
3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it’s warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating ‘roof’ membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation).
4. If you look at the trigger you’ll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you’re filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high
setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank so you’re getting less gas for your money.
Hope this will help ease your ‘pain at the pump’.
"ICE" Your Mobile!
We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than if we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn’t know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this “ICE” (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.
The concept of “ICE” is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name “ICE” ( In Case Of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialling the number you have stored as “ICE”.
Please forward this.
It won’t take too many “forwards” before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at rest. For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.
Message from a hard working Aussie!
I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay cheque, as I work on a mine site on a Kalgoorlie (WA) construction project, I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem.
What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a Centerlink Payment because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand – I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their backsides drinking grog & smoking dope.
Could you imagine how much money the Government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a Centerlink Payment?
Please pass this along if you agree.
Hope you all will pass it along though, because something has to change in this country, and soon!
Architectural Treehouse
A fascinating look at an innovative building solution here…
A Victory for the Good Guys!
Thanks to all of your efforts, including emails, calls, and visits the Mental Health Parity bill that would have forced insurance carriers to cover all 374 mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), literally opening the door to anyone being labeled with a mental disorder and drugged, was defeated. It was extremely important that this bill be stopped, as there should be no parity of insurance coverage when there is no parity of diagnoses. The fact is, unlike real medical conditions which can be verified by a scientific/medical procedure, there are no blood tests, brain scans, chemical imbalance tests, X-Rays, etc. that can prove any psychiatric disorder is a disease or illness, yet millions are needlessly drugged due to this junk science. With commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs now acknowledged by international drug regulators as causing suicide, mania, homicidal ideation, psychosis, diabetes, heart attack, stroke and sudden death (20 warnings this year alone), you can see why defeating Mental Health Parity was so important. Under the guise of “helping” people, this bill was designed only to benefit those with a vested interest in hooking millions more Americans on drugs.
People deserve real solutions and real medical help, not junk science and vested interests looking to shove more drugs down their throats. Thanks to your efforts, they may find there are safer alternatives than the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel would have them believe.
CCHR International
Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust
When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the “software spiral” — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. More…
Psychiatry = Fraud
In June of 2005 Tom Cruise made statements about “chemical imbalance” on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. Since that time Florida researchers have investigated the pharmaceutical / psychiatric claims of “chemical imbalance” and recently a study was released which you can find…
Updated 15 July 2024 link no longer works – here is another: https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/ssris-chemical-imbalance-depression.html
Deaths from Medical drugs 105,000, deaths from vitamins 0.
Julie and I have taken vitamins for over three decades now, despite the bad-mouthing they get from the medical establishment. Here is an interesting look at the comparisons between the “Drug the symptoms” cartel in the black hats and the “Eat well to stay healthy” guys in the white hats… Update 115 July 2024 link no longer valid.
Ground-breaking study links food additives to hyperactivity in children
Julie and I observed this about 20 years ago with our own children. And we weren’t alone even then! Nice to see the medical mainstream catching up with parental observation! We used to tell the story of how little you wound up with in your shopping trolley if you did not add anything that had a food colouring or preservative. Update 15 July 2024 Link no longer valid.
First Post From Tom
G’day!
I have had a lot of very nice feedback on the Tips, Links and Tidbits newsletter over the last few years but thanks to changing server configurations, a concrete cutter putting a saw through a Telstra cable and other such nonsense I have not sent one out for some time now. Thanks to those who asked what happened to it and asked to be put back on if they had fallen off the list!
I plan to replace the email newsletter with this blog and to add more of my own content to the posts as well as to keep up the flow of links to other articles I feel worthy of passing on to you.
If you are in business you can look forward to a steady stream of ideas that will give you food for thought and perhaps inspire you to change some of the things you do now to a more efficient or profitable way of doing things.
Here’s the first! I was on a telephone conference call two days ago and the speaker said that the amount of computer screen area was a direct determinant of productivity. The bigger the screen area, the more productive the computer user. His words rang true with me as I can still recall the feeling of increased productivity when I went from a 17″ to a 19″ monitor and again when I made the jump to using two 19″ monitors side by side. Now when I work on only one screen it feels very constrictive and slow by comparison.
After the conference call I instantly rang a supplier to ask what a graphics card would cost that would accommodate 4 monitors. Call me extravagant if you will but before you do, check the figures! $150 each for two graphics cards, each of which can handle two monitors and $450 for another two 19″ screens and an hour and a half to order them, pay the invoice and to set it all up. Total outlay, $750 and an hour and a half of time. Pay back? If I only increase my productivity by 5% this year and I only value my time at $50,000 for the year, that’s an extra $2,500! That’s more than a 300% return on my $750 investment. Aren’t too many 300% returns advertised in the financial pages that I see.
I am also putting the finishing touches on a couple of on-line quizzes that will give you an insight into you and your business. I will post when they are ready to be tested by real users!
So that’s it for my first post. Hope you found it worth while and look forward to seeing you back.
Warmest regards,
Tom Grimshaw
P.S. If there is some topic on which you would like to hear from me, drop me a line!