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All this trouble just to save a few bucks? No thanks. I'll just cut back from tipping strippers.
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If gas keeps going up, never mind tipping.....you won't be able to afford to go to those places to start with.Originally Posted by ChronoJ1
All this trouble just to save a few bucks? No thanks. I'll just cut back from tipping strippers.
I'm glad for this thread. I started a little experiment beginning this week where I filled up my tank on Sunday and said to myself that I'll not speed and leave home to go to work earlier. My car's MPG is not good as my previous cars I've owned. When I spent just over $60 to fill up my tank it hit me and I decided to change my driving habits. It's only Tuesday night but I see a difference already in where the needle measuring my gas level is. AAA Mid-Atlantic says that the price for a gallon of regular fuel may reach $4 as we reach the summer driving season. I don't think that it will but hey you never know and if does I wouldn't be surprised.
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I filled up my tank on Sunday and said to myself that I'll not speed
When I spent just over $60 to fill up my tank it hit me and I decided to change my driving habits.
It's only Tuesday night but I see a difference already in where the needle measuring my gas level is.
A wise move, MrG4Life. Originally Posted by MrG4Life
I filled up my tank on Sunday and said to myself that I'll not speed
When I spent just over $60 to fill up my tank it hit me and I decided to change my driving habits.
It's only Tuesday night but I see a difference already in where the needle measuring my gas level is.
The more your right foot drops, the more your gas gauge drops with it.
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIPS IS TO FILL UP WHEN YOUR TANK IS HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in your tank, the less air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Originally Posted by 5h4n3
I don't know how legit this is but I thought it worthwhile to post it up. I got this email attachment from a friend of mine, who got the email from someone else and so on and so forth, hence the reason i question the legitimacy of the contents. But I thought it made sense so here goes...
What about how much fuel you will use to carry all that extra weight?
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 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.
Regardless of how fast the fuel goes in there will be fumes. So, running the pump longer (slow speed) will allow more fumes to be collected, no?
Koz
