<snip
The  pump should have totaled @
$38.00 (and change).  When the receipt was printed, and she checked  it
was $ 47.00 (and change).
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Whichever grade you are using,  put EXACTLY 10 LITERS in your
tank, then look at the dollar amount. If the dollar  amount is not
EXACTLY 10 times the price of  the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps
are  rigged.

In my case, as I said, the  mid-grade was $0.885 per liter; my dollar
amount  for 10 liters should have been $8.85 . I wish I  had checked the
pump. It doesn't matter where  you pump gas, please check the 10  liter
price. If you do find a station that is  cheating, contact the MTO, and
direct your  comments to the Commissioner, the info is on  the gas
pumps.


This test is unlikely to give you much information.  If they have
rigged the pump to say it delivered 10 liters when you only got 8,
it's likely to give you the price for 10 liters also.  You certainly
wouldn't be complaining if the pump said it delivered 10 liters and
only charged you for 8.  The first example seems to be different in that
it would appear the published rate was one amount but the price was
being calculated at a higher rate.  I would also be surprised if the
pump was capable of calculating at a different rate than shown on the
pump although the sign at the station could easily be different than
what is shown on the pump.

I'm not a gas pump expert and they may not work they way I think, and
the internal working could be tampered with, but if they aren't
designed to use the price displayed on the pump to calculate the total
cost then whoever oversees the design of gas pumps is incompetent.

On the price of oil, There is a movie at
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html that shown the
movement for the last 740 million years.   Dinasours were from around
280 million to 65 million years ago.  I tried to email it, but it
exceeded your size limit of 15 MB.  Right click on the Quicktime link
just under Plate tectonics animations to get a copy.  It's a lot more
useful after downloading than trying to view the web versions.  There
is a lot of information on the subject at this web site.

My personal opinion is that there was a lot of stuff going on.  You can
grow a large mass of carbon based stuff in 200 million years.  Some of
that may now be coal, tar sands, or oil.  That doesn't mean the Russian
theory is incorrect either.  My understanding is that the core heat
that drives plate tectonics is mostly generated by radioactive decay of
material in the core. Don't remember which elements were involved.

Bob W.

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Paul Lamar


If you want to check the functioning of the pump, carry a gas can in
the car..  From an empty can, fill it to the line, note what the pump
indicates, dump that fuel in your gas tank, and finish filling the gas
tank with the pump (if the amount checks out).  The pump might shut
off while dumping the gas can in the tank..

My buddy in California that ran a gas station says it's more likely
that the pump will deliver extra fuel than for it to short you.  He
says that Weights and Measures comes out and checks the pumps annually
(sometimes undercover) and if it's not pumping the correct volume that
there's a fine to pay.  I don't doubt that some retailers would still
take the risk however.


Matt-