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Eish.. food is increasing in price every day.

Bread has now hit R9.15 per loaf.

Double of what it cost a mere 6 months ago.

Meat is becoming a privileged food and milk is becoming just as expensive…. R10/L or 25% of the daily minimum wage.

Every single traffic light has a resident beggar. Children run wild, sniffing glue on the streets, policemen do nothing… as if its something normal…that is tolerated by our precious new civil society.

When I grew up, a naughty child on the streets of Durban - South Africa, if I even bunked school and was spotted on the street; I was detained and handed back to the wrath of my dad, by the police.

Suffice to say, I never bunked school. Till the day that I did.

Anyway, I am a bit bumbed today, because I can see our country and our economy being gleefully tossed down the gutter…whilst they are pie-holing every attachable bit of wealth into their comrades and their own kleptocratic pockets.

But, I guess that is the price that we pay for loving the brands that we sacrifice our souls for.. and voting for the assholes that we do.

I guess that capitalist companies must make what they can… but what they make… and ultimately take from our pockets is determined by the leeway that we give them.

Oh well. just a thought.

Cheers all.

Your hard working webmaster of www-my-naked-friends.com

TIPS ON FILLING YOUR CAR(S)

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t know what you guys are paying for petrol…. but here in Durban we are also paying higher, up to R7.35 per litre. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every litre.

Here at the Marian Hill Pipeline where I work in Durban, we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, LRP and Unleaded. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 litres.

Only buy or fill up your car or bakkie in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the fuel, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening….your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other
petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you’re filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapours that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you’re getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a fuel truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy, DO NOT fill up–most likely the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS!

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