Fuel Up at Night...

[Perfectlap]

[QUOTE=RandallNeighbour]

Every single night the news reports someone getting carjacked and killed or stabbed by being on the street late at night ...

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Great! when I can I move to Houston? RN, I'm going to report you to the Toursim board.

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Great! when I can I move to Houston? RN, I'm going to report you to the Toursim board.

Actually, we're overcrowded here and this is my organic attempt to run off would-be move-ins! Besides, the tourism board knows all about our skyrocketing murder rates. I heard rumors of making a new marketing byline for Houston.

Houston: We've got it all:

"A great place to die. Just ask most anyone if they're still alive."
"Our heat and humidity will completely eliminate purgatory in the afterlife as 'time served' "
"Soaring crime and property taxes, not to mention some of the most poorly paved roads in the nation! What more could you ask for?"

[NickCats]

Gee, Randall, I really wish I had taken that job in Houston now ! You make it sound like such a great place to live

Nick

[Houston C4S]

Randall's just funnin' with you all.

He didn't even mention the mosquitoes, tornadoes, hurricanes,
the Mexican invasion or the traffic.

At least we don't have to put our cars (or our lives) on hold
for six months of the year when it gets all cold and snowy.

Heck, that's often the best time of year for us. So it gets
a little hot here for a few months -- that's why we have A/C.

I live out of town a bit, so no worries here about the, umm,
Katrina citizenry (the ones who have upped our murder rate
by 70% -- can't we just send'em back???). I just carry pepper
spray, shotgun (Winchester Defender with 000) and/or the
H&K P7M8 (9mm). Just in case.

As far as gas temps, what bugs me worse than the slight volume
increase if it indeed is that hot, is those single hose pumps where
you just know the guy before you pumped regular so the first
hose full for you is regular. Which in the total volume of the
hose probably isn't all that much, it's still now in your tank
and you are leaving your high priced premium for the next
curler wearing, baby toting, cell phone talking mamoo in her
minivan behind you.

So there.

Best,

- Mark

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by Houston C4S

Randall's just funnin' with you all.

He didn't even mention the mosquitoes, tornadoes, hurricanes,
the Mexican invasion or the traffic.

At least we don't have to put our cars (or our lives) on hold
for six months of the year when it gets all cold and snowy.

Heck, that's often the best time of year for us. So it gets
a little hot here for a few months -- that's why we have A/C.

Now Mark is funnin' with ya'll too.

"a LITTLE hot here for a FEW months?"

We will hit 90 degrees with 85%+ humidity within the first two weeks of May. It stays this hot and humid straight through the end of September. That's four solid months of swealtering humid heat. It's like sitting in a sauna with a heat lamp five inches from your head with the top down from 10 am to 6 pm on these days.

Even with the top up, the AC just doesn't cool off my boxster, even when parked in the shade in the summer months.

Just so you'll know, I think about our looooong summers the way everyone up north thinks about their winters.

And to get this thread back on track (sorry) I do try to pump early in the AM before it heats up and I get more vapor than fluid in the tank. Heck, even if the fuel in the underground tank at the station is cool, it's being pumped into a tank that's 100 degrees or higher and that's got to heat up what I'm putting in there, right?

[racer_d]

Of course there is some truth to this, on the otherhand, who lives in such ideal conditions. Life is a crap shoot. Gas prices are high. I'd be more worried about inaccurate pump guages than of the tiny bit of "energy" lost by filling a car with "warm gas" - day or night.

[blinkwatt]

The link to the article is expired,someone care to share with me the jist of it?