SeaFury π¦πDiesel is 294.9c/L, down 1c from yesterday π₯° #fuel #launceston
I have a theory that you get slightly more fuel if you fill up in increments vs doing an empty to full fill in one go. What do you think? #poll #fuel
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ππ«π’π¦ππππ@SeaFury it's a wash. Accuracy diminishes as flow decreases, but it can go either way.
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Roknrol@SeaFury I used to have to drive a lot for work...never noticed a difference as far as how much fuel the tank holds.
What *did* change my fuel consumption was the stuff that people always tell you: Don't drive angry, don't slam on the gas or the brakes.
One of my jobs was 150 miles away and I managed to save a LOT of gas on that regular trip by changing to the lane that would give me the shortest path (on the freeway, for example, if the road turned to the right, being in the right-hand lane is a shorter path than being in the left, and vice versa)
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Drew Mayo@SeaFury but if you pay cash, filling to $25.02 you are getting 2c of free fuel due to rounding!
@drew woohoo!!!!
Lats (314 ppm)@SeaFury I was reading that filling by increments costs more fuel due to additional driving to the fuel station. Sounds reasonable.
@Lats I go past this one at least once every shift.
@SeaFury understood. I was lucky and needed a new car last year. We decided it was time to give an EV a go and now largely charge at home. The Ute doesnβt get used much as a daily driver and the cost of fuel has reinforced that.
@Lats I am basically on the poverty line ATM. The result of being a casual academic for over a decade π₯΄π₯΄π₯΄
Mark Whybird@SeaFury It is a genuine physical property of petroleum that it takes up slightly more volume when agitated. You absolutely can and will get slightly more if you pump it in a slow, steady stream than if you jam it in as fast as the pump will allow. Iβd love someone to do the math on just how much; I donβt think itβs a particularly noticeable amount and Iβm certain just driving calmly etc. will have a much bigger effect.
(Note: this is not the fuel station ripping you off: they absolutely DID pump 50 litres or 20 hogsheads or whatever into your tankβ¦ and then when it settled, it genuinely BECAME only 49.x liters. Itβs a time trade off that is actually unavoidable, though of course in finding the right balance, they are motivated in perhaps a different way than you, the consumer.)
@whybird interesting!!
WildRikku@wildrikku @SeaFury Iβm talking about the volume increase during the pumping into your tank at the fuel station. You will genuinely pump some amount and then genuinely have slightly less than that after it settles, before your car uses it.
But it is irrelevant for another reason, as I thought: the amount is negligible at the agitation levels we are talking about. Your response made me go and skim the science of it, and this figure:
, for example, suggests that at the agitation levels in actual domestic pumping, the amount is probably waaaaay less than 1%. Looks like it might be a few percent at the ridiculous rates race cars fill up at in a pit stop, which they probably account for in their design and planning and otherwise dont care about.
Wonderdog π³οΈβπ@SeaFury I've never been in the position of doing a completely empty-to-full fill, because that would be too expensive? I work on the theory of never going below about 3/4 of a tank.
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David de Groot@SeaFury I saw it was $2.979 at my local last night. So I guess this is as close as Brisbane gets to price-parity with the rest of the eastern states.
Den of Earth@SeaFury
Yes it's not much better in Canada.
On the same topic, I just saw this...
https://mastodon.social/@fluffykontbiscuits/116272573097935899
Yes it's not much better in Canada.
On the same topic, I just saw this...
https://mastodon.social/@fluffykontbiscuits/116272573097935899
Gary Houston@SeaFury what I grasp from physics is that a vehicle loaded with more fuel will use more fuel, just like it will use more when carrying heavy people and cargo or when drawing more electricity for headlights etc.
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