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A friend just sent me this in an email

This is a true story, so read it carefully.

On April 24, 2008, I stopped at a Kangaroo BP gas station, located at 1325 Main Street, Cartersville, GA.
My truck's gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank. I use the mid-grade, which was priced at $3.71 per gallon.
When my tank is at this point, it takes somewhere around 14 gallon's to fill it up.
When the pump showed 14 gallons had been pumped I began to slow it down, then to my surprise it went to 15, then 16. I even looked under my truck to see if it was being spilled. It was not. Then it showed 17 gallons had been pumped. It stopped at almost 18 gallons.
This was very strange to me, since my truck has only an 18 gallon tank.

I went on my way a little confused, then on the evening news I heard a report that 1 out of 4 gas stations had calibrated their pumps to show more gas had been pumped than a person actually got.

Here is how to check a pump to see i f you are getting the right amount:

Whichever grade you are using, put EXACTLY 10 GALLONS in your tank, then look at the dollar amount, if the dollar amount is not EXACTLY 10 times the price of the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps are rigged. In my case as I said the mid-grade was $3.71 9/10 per gallon, my dollar amount for 10 gallons should have been $37.19. If I had only check the pump. It doesn't matter where you pump gas, please check the 10 gallon price. If
you do find a station that is cheating, contact the COMMISSIONER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN YOUR AREA

Please don't delete this until you have sent it to all people in your address book. We need to put a stop to this outrageous cheating of customers.
The gas companies are making enough profits at honest rates.

I have an email I got awhile back that can explain some of why it doesn't measure out. >>

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California
we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But 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 ea rly morning when the ground
temperatu re is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their
storage tanks buried below ground. The colder 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 three (3)stages: low, middle, and
high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the
vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a
vapo r return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other 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 or
HALF EMPTY. 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 be tween 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 in to 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 migh t pick up some f the dirt
that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value
for your money.

Here's one more article about gasoline that might interest some. Thanks Scottishlass for your great article above.


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 pe ople 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.

These companies 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 imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now
$90 - $100 a barrel

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair.................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barre ls

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.

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Not quite true but the point is well taken.

checked it out, thanks for the info, sorry to have misled anybody.

No no, was a good point. I always check out stuff I hear on the net. The point was a valid one as that 2 stations were cited for doing just that. Just happens it wasn't the one your story said it was. I find myself checking the gallon to price ratio too, the 10 gallon rule. And the points that MYLIFE made are good too.