could someone 'splain... Propane tank

wildwest450 wrote:

Ex-Tech wrote:
Wrong.
It plainly states on the Blue Rhino label that you don't get a full tank and it even states the amount they put I to the tank.
So you see, they aren't "thieves". It's just people that don't read the labels that think they are.

Perhaps now, after they lost a law suit...
http://www.propanesettlement.com/

They didn’t lose the law suit, they settled and admit to no wrong doing…, nor has any couth found them guilty of the allegations…

I can only say I have never seen one not correctly labeled although maybe not conspicuously so…

“The Lawsuit claims that, while Blue Rhino marketed and sold pre-filled propane cylinders as “full,” Blue Rhino failed to disclose that it reduced by two pounds or more the amount of propane sold to Plaintiffs and the members of the Class, and misrepresented or failed to disclose that the cylinder was not full and/or the actual amount of propane in each cylinder. Blue Rhino has always denied, and continues to deny, all allegations of wrongdoing and liability in The Lawsuit.”

Weight is the only correct way to buy or sell propane… metering might be permissible in some states but is only accurate if the pumps have temperature compensating devices attached to the system because of its expansion and contraction… all home delivery dispensing trucks are required to have temperature compensating devices on them… I don’t know of any law requiring them on local filling stations…

A tank will not be overfilled when done by weight… they can be overfilled other ways…
The OPD is a safety device not a filling device and should never be used as a filling device… tanks with OPD valves can be over filled and they can even be overfilled when opening the spitter valve in combination, and is why many states require weighing on certified scales…