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When Warmer Temperatures Throw Off Gas Pumps, Consumers Pay

When Warmer Temperatures Throw Off Gas Pumps, Consumers Pay

“In the summer time fuel gets hot and as the fuel gets hot the volume expands, but the energy does not,” says a new report from NPR. The basic idea is that while the volume of fuel expands and contracts, the amount of potential energy within the gas stays the same. A gallon of gas at 80 degrees won’t push a car as far as a gallon of gas at 60 degrees.