Gene Kearns wrote in
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Here's the rub..... do those unnamed retailers cut the gasoline 50/50
with alcohol after it hits the truck?



Nope...sometimes if they run out of "high test" the truck driver will drop
a couple of dye tablets into the truck at the terminal so it'll convert
white regular gas into colored "high test" before it gets to the station.
Gas truck drivers pull up to the Hess dump...fill the truck and head out to
refill the stations as quickly as possible, including the overpriced
marinas! There's no "additives" in behind the seat to treat 70,000 gallons
of regular! They'd have to tow two trailers, one with additives. You
can't drop a pill into 70,000 gallons to change anything. What a hoot!

The "Texaco" at Ashley Marina comes in on a tank truck from a truck company
in N Charleston....not TEXACO. The driver just wants to get it over with
so he can go home to see his kids and drink beer....like everybody else.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

You
can't drop a pill into 70,000 gallons to change anything. What a hoot!

You wouldn't get far with a 420 000 pound trailer. The don't make 3
000 HP tractors, for openers. I seem to recall that 7 000 gallons is
the usual size for a fuel trailer.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

You
can't drop a pill into 70,000 gallons to change anything. What a hoot!

You wouldn't get far with a 420 000 pound trailer. The don't make 3
000 HP tractors, for openers. I seem to recall that 7 000 gallons is
the usual size for a fuel trailer.

Casady


We don't get fuel from tankers. We get it from underground tankage, bigger
than tankers.

All that nonsense aside, my point is the TRUCK DRIVER doesn't have 400
gallons of "additives" to put in the 7000 gallon truck, either.

That's all just bull****.

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:20:40 +0000, Larry wrote:

(Richard Casady) wrote in
:

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

You
can't drop a pill into 70,000 gallons to change anything. What a hoot!

You wouldn't get far with a 420 000 pound trailer. The don't make 3
000 HP tractors, for openers. I seem to recall that 7 000 gallons is
the usual size for a fuel trailer.

Casady


We don't get fuel from tankers. We get it from underground tankage, bigger
than tankers.

All that nonsense aside, my point is the TRUCK DRIVER doesn't have 400
gallons of "additives" to put in the 7000 gallon truck, either.

That's all just bull****.

Tetra ethyl lead was used in quantities of up to six ml per gallon. A
driver could carry that much. There are undoubtly third world
********s with leaded gas
but I don't think drivers have ever handled the pure TEL The bush
pilots of the great white north used to add the stuff to cheap gas.
Little one gallon cans of the pure stuff.

Casady