do you care if exxon admits to knowingly ripping you off?

Question

The Oil Express report says the wording of the decal will be:

"This device dispenses motor fuel by volume measured in gallons. It
does not adjust the volume for variations in the temperature of the fuel.
The temperature of motor fuel affects the energy content of each gallon
dispensed."

"The loss is perhaps 50 cents per hot tankful for individual motorists,
and the collective loss to motorists in California alone is estimated at
about $450 million a year in California," said Dugan. "Exxon can't evade
its responsibility to sell gasoline fairly and honesty with a decal
essentially saying 'Yeah, we rip you off and what are you going to do about
it.'"

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/07-17-2007/0004627529&EDATE=TUE+Jul+17+2007,+06:04+PM

Answer 1

Your rage is misplaced. The fuel is coming out of underground storage which is going to be at a relatively constant temperature. The fuel is being measured by volume at the average temperature it is dispensed at.

The decal is to let their customers know that when the fuel reaches ambient temperature and that temperature is extreme (hot or cold) their gas gauge may read something different then otherwise expected. This is because people thought that pump was measuring the fuel dispensed incorrectly. Always check for the Department of Weights and Measures has checked the pump and the decal is not expired.

Even with this difference in expansion and contraction, you are only talking about 1/2 of 1% or about 15 oz in a 25 gallon tank.

The oil companies are making and average of 8 cents/gallon

If you want to be angry at someone ... be angry at the government who takes:

Federal: 18.4 cents

New York: 31.9 cents + 8 cents (excise tax) + 15.2 cents (Petroleum Bussiness Tax) + an average of 7.5 cents sales tax.

This means that while the nasty old oil companies profit 8 cents/gallon, while the State of New York takes in 62.6 cents/gallon. This is almost 8 times the amount the oil company realizes and they didn't have to drill it, refine it, transport it, pay THEIR taxes, build service stations, etc etc etc.

Follow the link to see what your state charges you.

Answer 2

Yes, and this is tap water was 3 letters on Aquafina !

Associated Press
Aquafina Labels: It's Tap Water
By VINNEE TONG 07.27.07, 11:37 AM ET

NEW YORK - The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner said Friday.

A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices.

Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source."

"If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do," PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) spokeswoman Michelle Naughton said Friday.

The corporate accountability group is also pressing for similar concessions from The Coca-Cola Co. (nyse: KO - news - people ), which owns the Dasani water brand.

Dasani's Web site says that Dasani comes from local water supplies and is then filtered.

Waycar, read this!

"Gasoline is adjusted for temperature variations from the national standard of 60 degrees when it is sold by the refinery to distributors, and when it is sold again to retailers.

At each stage, the buyer receives extra gasoline to make up for expansion and energy loss if the fuel is over 60
degrees. However, the fuel is sold without any temperature adjustment to motorists, causing an annual loss of $2.3 billion to drivers nationally. In California, the statewide average year-round temperature of gasoline is
over 74 degrees, according to a federal study."

Answer 3

this is why fuel is stored in the ground. ya go down a foot or two and it's pretty damn cool. fuel systems are pressurized (at least in cars), and therefore prevent vapor loss. ever feel your gas tank on your car. it's always cooler than ambient. get a laser thermometer and check for yourself.no worries on this for me. but i get how the car works better'n most.

Answer 4

i was reading about this yesterday and was somewhat enraged by it. now, not so much. It's in the upper 90's where I'm at, I was pumping fuel today. Out of curiosity i felt the fuel. It was ice cold.
I don't get it.

Answer 5

everyone involved in the oil buisness knows that they are ripping you off its just how life goes the only thing we can do is go with alternative fuels. everything is supply and demand if everyone uses gas prices go up if no one did it be practically be free