Prosecutors said the trucks were equipped with "diverter valves" that gave fake readouts of how much oil each customer was being delivered, DNAinfo reported. They also allegedly used other tricks to fool measuring devices designed to prevent fraud.
Whoah....
http://news.yahoo.com/44-oil-executives-truck-drivers-204920300.html
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
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ReplyDeleteThis doesn't seem tied to fossil fuels - it could just as easily have been milk delivery. Any place there is money, there are people who want to get more than their share of it.
ReplyDeleteThis has absolutely nothing to do with "oil industry". It's just a bunch of resellers of heating fuel.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, metering in oil and gas is an extremely accurate science and I wish other industries will apply the same care.
For example, thermal expansion is taken in consideration for crude oil transfer.
This is not the case with water.
Did you ever realize that the tap water you pay for is changing volume depending on temperature ? It seems very small but on millions of m3 of water pumped from aquifer by water companies, it makes a huge volume if the water is warmer than the aquifer. Which is mostly the case...
This is nothing new. Refineries routinely deliver gasoline from trucks at over 100ยบ F so that it's volume expands relative to it's weight. Even in winter.
ReplyDeleteThe "hot gas" then shrinks in your gas tank to whatever it's normal volume would be at air temperature.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/04/hot_fuel02.html
http://www.cspnet.com/fuels-news-prices-analysis/fuels-news/articles/return-hot-fuel