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Cruiser Quarterly Is No More!
In a telephone conversation with Barbara Beach, Executive Editor of Cruiser Quarterly, she informed me that we have seen the last issue!
Chrysler Corporation has withdrawn its support of the magazine, due primarily to their plans to stop PT Cruiser production next year, and the new owners who are slashing costs wherever they can.
They are offering a special price package for anyone wanting back issues. You can obtain any ten back issues for $50 plus $10 shipping.
Barbara is working on an on-line magazine, which will feature all Chrysler products, including but not exclusively PT Cruisers.
To place a back issue order write to MediaSource Motorsports, 1315 Buena Vista Drive, Vista, CA 92081. (JES 4/3/08)
Here are some tricks to help you get your money's worth:
Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the
ground, the denser the gasoline.
When it gets warmer gasoline
expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the
evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon.
In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the
fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum
products) are significant.
Every truckload that we load is
temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually
the amount pumped.
A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal
for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature
compensation at their pumps.
If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time
you want to buy gas, do not fill up;
most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered,
and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank
into your car's tank.
Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty),
because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is
and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm.
(Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane
to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby
minimizing evaporation.)
If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three
delivery settings: slow, medium and high.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting.
You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors
created while you are pumping.
Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas
that already has been metered.
If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being
sucked back into the underground tank,
so you're getting less gas for your money. Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'(9/10/07)
CRUISE SAFELY!
Glen Miller gmiller64@woh.rr.com
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