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Originally posted by: BAGIANT
They always pick on SoCal since we basically drive more than anyone else in the nation. More driving means more gas consumption. Another thing that's a real scam in the gas business is those overflow and fume rubber boots that they put over the nozzle. When you stop pumping, there's always an ounce or so left over in the hose. These ounces now are caught and drain back into gas stations tank. It may not seem like much, but those ounces add up when you have millions of cars and trucks filling up each day. I can't even imagine how much money the oil companies make on gas that we've paid for that drains back into their tanks. Originally we were told that it was done so that fumes wouldn't enter the air and add to pollution. Somebody made the oil companies more money with this gimmick!
Umm, I don't think any drains back into the underground tank, but even so, it wouldn't gfo into the oil cos. tanks it would be the station owners tanks. Just because its an exxon station doesn't mean its owned by Exxon. Also, gas stations margins are pretty razor thin(of course given a competitive environment) that a few drops of gas either way wouldnt' mean a significant difference.
On another note however , This reminds of an article I read sometime ago in the Post and it was about the state controllers who are supposed to actually gauge and put those little stickers on the side of the pumps stating there accuracy. Turned out sometimes they aren't so accurate most of the time, but are "close enough".
J
