Comments on: Paying More For Less At The Pump

The Skinny: How Paying For A Gallon Of Gas May Get You Less Than A Gallon

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator.

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator. No wonder their is so much confusion about Global Warming, etc. since journalists like this are experts at using flawed facts to jack up the public.

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator. No wonder their is so much confusion about Global Warming, etc. since journalists like this are experts at using flawed facts to jack up the public.

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator. No wonder their is so much confusion about Global Warming, etc. since journalists like this are experts at using flawed facts to jack up the public.

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator. No wonder their is so much confusion about Global Warming, etc. since journalists like this are experts at using flawed facts to jack up the public.

[smithncustom]

katie and co

if you think gas prices are too high.... don't buy it then!!! it's simple economics. i know that economic principles are not taught in the school of liberalism, but, this is a very simple lesson.

[gunnerv1]

raccettura, are you going to clean up all of the "Road Apples" that are dropped by the "hay burners"?

[raccettura]

That's totally not cool.

[mudlogger]

I just love the fact that people are so eager to jump on the oil companies, but let's examine all the facts not just half of them.

Not only does the gas/diesel expand in the heat, but so does the nozzle and "oops" the metal tank it's pumped into. Follow that with the fact that the gas/diesel continues to expand as it heats up during the day "after it's pumped" then everything "shrinks" as it cools off at night.

For another bogus thought, "if you fill you tank at night you will actually get less gas than if you fill it during the daytime when it's hot".

If you work strictly on volume then the gas tank and filler neck will have to be self adjusting also. I find such blatantly misleading articles, yes I actually read the LA Times article, to be more of the "bogus science" put forth in the world today. I also find the news media that's so quick to jump on it without doing all the research just as irritating.

[ggf1938]

You can see from all of these goofy comments how Americans are mislead. I have no love for the oil companies. Your journalist who obviously took blow off courses to get his degree should have checked with a FIFTH GRADER who might have explained that the gasoline is stored underground, year round, at a constant temperature. Therefore it is the same density/volume year round. If you leave a container of gasoline outside exposed to high temperatures (100-110F) you might see a slight increase in cubic volume compared to a container left in a refrigerator. No wonder their is so much confusion about Global Warming, etc. since journalists like this are experts at using flawed facts to jack up the public. Lets see what kind of response follow my comments