With Petrol expected to reach £2 (approx. Rs.150/- per litre by end
of 2011 these tips might come in handy.
TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL
I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol.... I am paying up
to £1.35 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 , we deliver about 4 million
litres in a 24-hour period .. 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 vapours that are created while you are
pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are
pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank
becomes vapour. Those vapours 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. petrol 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
overTHREE 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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