Gasoline Decal

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

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

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.

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