eating lunch at the fuel pumps

bigdogger wrote:

silvercorvette wrote:

doxiemom11 wrote:
We don't use the truck stops but use regular gas stations and usually get cheaper prices. On this trip home however, I did need gas in the Jeep and we stopped at a truck stop (not Flying J) on the car side. Filled with gas. Noticed that the tank of gas from there went away a whole lot faster than the gas purchased at regular gas stations -- got 100 miles less on that tank full. We will not ever use that truck stop again, seems as if their gas is inferior in some way.

Some stations have the pumps rigged to pump less fuel than is indicated on the pump readout

Don't think so. That is a major violation of state and federal law and would earn the store a huge fine and the owners possibly jail time. Just doesn't happen. And yes, some fuel is "inferior" to other fuel. Any blended fuel with ethanol has less energy content than pure gasoline and you will get lower mileage when using an ethanol blend.

I read an article about 10 years ago where they caught a sophisticated pump rigging scam. I don't remember the details but from what I remember the thing that made it difficult to catch was the scam was set up to pump the correct volume of gas at specific dollar amounts. For instance if gas or fuel was selling for $2.00 a gallon (to make the math easy) and the people that are in charge of testing the pumps accuracy pump $10.00 worth (or whatever is the normal amount they test for accuracy) of fuel their measuring device will have 5 gallons of fuel, but if someone pumps $13.87 worth of fuel they will not get the correct amount of fuel. It did happen in the NY City Long Island area, they were caught. I remember reading about it 10 year or maybe longer. Since it was so long ago I may not have all the details correct, but I seem to remember there was some kind of control switch to turn the cheat device on and off. Pump rigging has been going on a long time and when they switched over to the digital electronic pumps about 20 or 30 years ago it makes it easier for crooks to rig pumps.