From the 2007 archives: Below is a summary of what we’ve gleaned from various sources about the usefulness of these widely shared tips on how to best pump your gas. ⬇️
About this ratingA long-circulated collection of purported money-saving tips for buying gasoline includes some items whose veracity is disputed, and others whose purported economic gains are highly questionable:
4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered.
Others maintain that regardless of the temperature at which gasoline is delivered, due to the insulative properties of underground storage tanks one can't be sure that gasoline will always be at its coolest early in the morning. And again, one has to consider the trade-off. On the occasions when you arrive at a gas station at the very same time a tanker is filling the station's tanks, is it really worth the time and expense to leave without filling up and drive off to a different service station just to avoid something that likely isn't much of a concern in the first place?
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