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Default supermarket fuel

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bert wrote:
In article , Adrian
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:17:00 +0000, AnthonyL wrote:

In one tropical country I go to the locals insist on filling up at the
garage first thing in the morning to ensure that they get maximum mass
for the delivered volume. The reasoning is that as the day warms up
the density decreases. Any truth in that?


shrug Just about any solid or liquid changes in volume as the
temperature changes.

But fuel is stored underground before sale, so the storage temperature is
going to be fairly consistent.

But LPG generally is not so this did/does apply to autogas.


when we were on holiday in Estonia 20 years ago, all the fuel tanks were
above ground. It was obviously a quicj way of constructing filling stations.

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