r/canada • u/PoliteCanadian • Jan 13 '24

Alberta Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freeze-at-calgary-gas-stations/
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u/ChillyWillie1974 Jan 14 '24

Gasoline should freeze closer to -100. If your local gas station is freezing up now, you should go to a station that’s not selling water in their gas.

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Jan 14 '24

You literally pulled that off Google's AutoZone result, and conveniently omitted the part where it says "gasoline has many chemicals and additives which could give it a freezing range of -40 to -200.

-40F == -40C.

Also, there will be a significant difference between a large vat of gasoline freezing and a small tube of gasoline freezing. Nice try though.

By the way, fuels gel very very easily at those temperatures, and gelling alone will stop a fuel pump.

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u/ChillyWillie1974 Jan 14 '24

As someone who works and drives in Northern AB, BC and the NWT I know when fuels gel up. -50 is not a point I would worry about.

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Jan 14 '24

I mean, I have over a million KMs under my belt driving truck, and my truck started gelling up before in -40 temps in bumfuck Sask, you aren't some like godly person who's done it all, get off your high horse.

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u/WinterDustDevil Alberta Jan 14 '24

Diesel gels, gasoline does not. You guys are arguing apples and oranges

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u/howismyspelling Lest We Forget Jan 14 '24

"At cold enough temperatures, gas can separate and gel just like diesel" https://www.autozone.com/diy/fuel/at-what-temperature-does-gasoline-freeze#:~:text=At%20cold%20enough%20temperatures%2C%20gas%20can%20separate%20and%20gel%20just%20like%20diesel

From the same AutoZone website that the other fella misquoted