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Default An interesting little gas factoid...

This doesn't make any sense. If the truck can only carry LESS ethanol by
WEIGHT than gasoline, it's because the ethanol is LESS dense, and
therefore occupies more volume per unit. With a full load of ethanol,
the truck is 'full', but only has the equivalent 'weight' of 11,000
gallons of gasoline.
JR
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

I was just down getting coffee for the wife and guests from the local
coffee shop and there was a driver there from a local gas delivery
company. We got to chatting while I was waiting for the coffee and
pastry order and found this out.

Apparently, ethanol is heavier than gasoline. In normal conditions, a
gasoline delivery truck carries 13,200 gallons of gasoline.

With ethanol, they can only deliver 11,000 gallons at a time because
of the extra weight.



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