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"Hot Fuel" * USA - Pump technology could solve troubles altogether
The warmer liquid gets, the more it expands, right?
Valley Grain,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -Feb 26, 2007: -- To put it simply – if the fuel that flows from the nozzle of a gas/diesel pump is too warm, you don’t get as much Btu bang for your buck... For years, consumers have been ripped off by fuel sold at temperatures warmer than the national standard of 60 degrees, according to plaintiff groups involved in five lawsuits filed in December 2006 in federal courts... The consumer plaintiffs want to change that because, according to an investigative series in The Kansas City Star, hot fuel costs consumers between $1.7 billion and $2.3 billion per year... The devil is in the details, and while a little piece of pump equipment known as a temperature-compensation device does not change the temperature of the fuel, it does “compensate” for warm, expanded fuel. So why don’t fuel pumps in the U.S. all have one?... Plaintiff groups in the five U.S. District Court lawsuits in California, New Jersey, Missouri and Kansas want to see temperature compensation become mandatory at the federal level... The groups of plaintiffs, all seeking class-action status, include owner-operators and OOIDA members... OOIDA Foundation Project Leader John Siebert is contributing research to the legal teams... "Temperature compensation is available, it is the correct way to do it, it is the equitable way to do it, and it is going to happen,” Siebert says with confidence. “They will try to slow down the train as much as possible, but they won’t stop it.”...
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