food for thought

[black heartbeat]

I've heard that filling up when it's colder out makes almost no difference and sure its a bif difference to the oil companies but they are dealig with things a scales 10,000 times larger at the least than our cars.

[Batman]

of course if you fill your car up at half a tank you are always carrying more weigh and thus getting worse mileage

[MouseTrapRacingTyler]

Ehhhh Im lazy full speed pumping and rockstar energy drinks every morning I cant imagine this making a diffrence more then 2/3 cents per gallon IMO

[black heartbeat]

Originally Posted by MouseTrapRacingTyler

Ehhhh Im lazy full speed pumping and rockstar energy drinks every morning I cant imagine this making a diffrence more then 2/3 cents per gallon IMO

even that is probably stretching it, maybe half a cent IMO

[ILuvPizzaTimes10]

try it. fill up a 5 gallon gas can on HIGH then fill up the same can on low. i got a noticably difference in can fullness on low. But you morons will just debate shit online i try it.

[black heartbeat]

Originally Posted by ILuvPizzaTimes10

try it. fill up a 5 gallon gas can on HIGH then fill up the same can on low. i got a noticably difference in can fullness on low. But you morons will just debate shit online i try it.

i will!

[bottledbird68]

Originally Posted by ILuvPizzaTimes10

try it. fill up a 5 gallon gas can on HIGH then fill up the same can on low. i got a noticably difference in can fullness on low. But you morons will just debate shit online i try it.

Ok, tried it today since I had to fill up a couple gas cans anyhow.
Two identical 5 gallon cans. One slow pump, one fast pump.
Got home, weighed them both on our digital scale. Both weighed 38.4 lbs.
Sorry mike, wanted to prove you right but now I need to disagree based on my scientific testing procedures

[ZFreie]

Originally Posted by bottledbird68

Ok, tried it today since I had to fill up a couple gas cans anyhow.
Two identical 5 gallon cans. One slow pump, one fast pump.
Got home, weighed them both on our digital scale. Both weighed 38.4 lbs.
Sorry mike, wanted to prove you right but now I need to disagree based on my scientific testing procedures

Only other thing would be to weigh the cans empty and make sure they weigh the same. Then I would agree a scientific experiment was done to prove pizza wrong lol.

[bottledbird68]

Originally Posted by ZFreie

Only other thing would be to weigh the cans empty and make sure they weigh the same. Then I would agree a scientific experiment was done to prove pizza wrong lol.

Both gas cans are of identical design from the same manufacturer bought at the same walmart at the same time.

I'd weigh them for you but they're plastic and I don't think they'll register on my scale lol.

[KLAB]

Originally Posted by bottledbird68

Ok, tried it today....

Which gas station was it!?!?!?!? I'm not sure about the SPEED of pumping, may or may not have an effect supposedly you just EXPERIMENTALLY proved it wrong, but not scientifically. As far as this goes I'm more interested in the temperature of pumping the gas having an effect. This can be proven experimentally at the pump and scientifically by observing the thermal expansion of gasoline. I'm sure the change in volume would be pretty small being that the temperature change between day and night would be small and the coefficient of thermal expansion of gasoline is pretty low. So in a gas tank I don't think there would be that big of a change, but you would def save money if you did this year round if you wanted to wake up early every day you pump gas. I'll check it out sometime when I finish my chemistry homework early.