Dear All,

Very informative and a MONEY-SAVER! !!!!!!!!! !!
This is our own little contribution to the reinvestment program.

PETROL TIPS - info!!
With Petrol expected to reach N141 per litre by end of 2012 these tips that I received from a friend might come in handy.       

TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL

I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol,  . I am paying up to N97 to N100 per litre. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every Litre:

Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work, we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period,

Only  buy or fill up your car or truck in the early  morning when the ground temperature is still  cold.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the petrol, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening, your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.

A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When  you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of  the nozzle to a fast mode.
If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You  should be pumping on low mode, thereby  minimizing the vapours that are created while  you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
So, stop running to Fuel stations were their metres pump faster because you are in a hurry. Take your time and get good value for your hard earned Naira.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when  your Petrol tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space.  Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine.  Petrol storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
Another  reminder, if there is a petrol truck pumping  into the storage tanks when you stop to buy  Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most likely  the petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is  being delivered, and you might pick up some of  the dirt that normally settles on the  bottom.

To  have an impact, we need to reach literally  millions of Petrol buyers in Nigeria. It's really simple to do.

I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each  of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =  300), and those 300 send it to at least ten more  (300 x 10 = 3,000) and so on, by the time the  message reaches the sixth generation of people, we  will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers  !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it,
THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!