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Feinstein and Pelosi targeted by human rights groups

­by the El Reportero’s staff

Members of the human rights an­d antiwar group, Codepink held a protest in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Feb. 14, to denounce the unlawful treatment of whistleblower Bradley Manning, charged with leaking information of U.S. war crimes and failed foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Codepink and other human rights groups claim they have documents presented to Feinstein Monday – which will prove Manning has been mistreated in violation of his constitutional rights, noting he has been detained in solitary confi nement for more than eight months, without trial, and is not allowed to have any meaningful exercise. His sleep is regularly interrupted. In a Codepink statement, the group demanded that Manning be treated like any U.S. Citizen because he has a constitutional right for a speedy trial and humane treatment.

“Instead, he is being punished without a conviction of any crime, but rather for suspicion of leaking truth about the war crimes of others,” the statement said. “Like the prisoners at Guantanamo, he is being held in indefinite detention… It is the duty of all elected offi cials to protect the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. His case is a testament to the current assaults on our democracy.”

Proposed Funding cuts to Head Start

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives would vote on a plan to cut 200,000 of the most at-risk children across the country from Head Start classrooms. “H.R. 1, a budget proposal for the remaining seven months of fi scal year 2011, represents an unprecedented cut to a program that has historically received bipartisan support,” says Rick Mockler, Executive Director of the California Head Start Association, in a written document.

According to the organization, the proposed cuts would reduce Head Start funding by over 20 percent. If these cuts are enacted, in California 27,000 children and their families will be dropped from Head Start’s education, health, and support service programs.

ACLU send letter to Sheriff Hennessy against supporting immigration raids

Citing the ACLU new report, Costs and Consequences: The high Piece of Policing Immigrant Communities, it lets know Sheriff Hennessy the price to pay for enforcing immigration laws.

“It can discourage witnesses and victims of crime from coming forward, undermine local peace offi – cers’ credibility with immigrant community members and ultimately harm public safety for the whole community,” the letter said. The report, says the ACLU’s letter, draws on many conversations they had with law enforcement leaders over the last year and a half

Computers for students who live in public housing

Fifty-eight Malcolm X Elementary students who live in public housing will be given computers to extend their learning at home. This Bayview school has the highest percentage of students in SFUSD living in public housing, where residentsnow have wi-fi access. At home, they will be able to use the online Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and School Loop (a website to keep parents informed about their child’s progress at school).  Students are being encouragedto spend about three hours a week studying on EPGY; their progress will be monitored by the district in this pilot program.

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Proposed Texas education cuts imperil Latino students’s future

by Raisa Camargo

Hispanic Link News Service

Impending massive budget reductions in flatbroke Texas are about to slam education’s door on its Latino youth, who at 2.34 million now comprise about half of its public school students.

Experts and community advocates across the state agree on the danger it portents to the state’s economic future as well. Once among the nation’s wealthiest, the Lone Star State has become the Loan Starved State. It is grappling with a budget shortfall somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion.

The proposed solution by Gov. Rick Perry, with traction offered by conservatives within the GOPcontrolled legislature, targets the schools. It includes a massive layoff of 100,000 teachers and slashes $9.8 billion from public education in fiscal years 2012 and 2013. Major cuts, which vary in the state Senate and House, include increasing class size and eliminatin Texas’s pre-kindergarten grant program. They trim funding for teen parenting education, school dropout prevention, certificates to teach bilingual education, community college budgets and a grant program which provides college tuition and fee support for economically disadvantaged students.

“They mortgage the future of Texas,” says Rice University sociology professor Steve Murdock, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau. Referring to the college grant fund, he echoes statements made by Roberto Alonzo, president of the state legislature’s Mexican American caucus. Their fear: the program’s elimination would result in a lost generation of college-eligible students.

The House version would cut higher education alone by $1.7 billion and axe support for 80,000 grant awards, according to Texas Higher Education coordinating commissioner Raymund Paredes. Murdock emphasized to Hispanic Link News Service that the cuts would further

stretch the education gap that divides white and Hispanic youth, adding to future state revenue losses. In “The New Texas Challenge,” a book he published in 2003, Murdock points out that by 2040 annual Income in the state would increase to $300 billion if this gap is closed. Murdock, who has characterized Texas as “the United States of tomorrow,” projects the percentage of non-Hispanic white students, now one-third of the state’s students, will shrink to one-fifth. “It’s very clear that the future of Texas is tied particularly to its Hispanic population,” he declares. Conservative legislators are deadlocked in attempting to avoid tapping a $9.4 billion rainy day fund and hesitant to raise taxes in high-income districts to secure needed revenue.

“We’re in a crisis and it looks like it’s going to get worse,” says Angela Valenzuela, professor at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the University of Texas Center for Education Policy.

She fears that the cuts are more than likely to pass. Charter schools, with 53 percent Hispanic enrollment, also face major reductions. Josie Duckett, Texas Charter Schools Association vice president, says that 32 percent are dropout recovery schools and 11 percent are college prep. The majority offer dual language courses.

English language learners and low-income students do better in charter schools than in traditional public ones, according to a study released last ­summer at the CREDO Institute at Stanford University. Texas ranks 43rd among the 50 states in graduation rates, with only 61 percent of its students completing high school. Black and Hispanic students are twice as likely to quit school early than are whites. Academic achievement gaps are prevalent in students of limited English proficiency, according to the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio-based nonprofi t organization that analyzes public school statistics and educational policies.

The Texas Education Agency reports that English language learners make up 17 percent or 815,998 of Texas k-12 students. Rice University’s Linda McNeil believes there are options to prevent the cuts, including reforming the franchise tax system, a tax imposed by states on corporations, and eliminating the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test system, which she says disproportionately affects Latinos.

“When we do offer a really rich rigorous education, Latino kids just shine, so we know it’s not the kids,” says McNeil, director of Rice’s Center for Education. “We know our system has been unequal.”

(Raisa Camargo, a reporting fellow with Hispanic Link in 2010, is continuing her journalism studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her email:raisa@knights.ucf.edu)

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The Agenda of the Illuminati (Conclusion of the series)

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­by Marvin Ramíre­z­

­­Marvin  J. Ramírez­Ma­rv­in­ R­­a­­m­­­í­r­­­ez­­­­

N O T E F R O M T H E E D I T O R : Given the important and historical information contained  in this 31-page article on the history of the secret and evil society, The Illum­inati, El Reportero is honored to provide our readers with the opportunity to read such a document by Myron C. Fagan, which mainstream media has labeled it a conspiracy theory.

To better understand this series, we suggest to also read the previous articles published in our previous editorials. This is the twenty-seventh part and the conclusion of the series.

The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati takeover agenda for America would have been aborted, just as Russia’s Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati’s plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America’s sovereignty. It’s understandable that most listeners of that  period would have found it impossible to believe that the Kennedy’s, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a  spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati’s stranglehold by issuing U.S. silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati’s decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father’s killers after he gained public office).

— We know all about that many-headed hydra monster and we know the names of those who created that monster. We know all their names and I predict that one fine day the American people will come fully awake and cause that very monster to destroy its creator. True! The majority of our people are still being brainwashed, deceived, and deluded by our traitorous press, TV, and radio, and by our traitors in Washington D.C., but surely by now enough is known about the U.N. to stamp out that outfit as a deadly poisonous rattlesnake in our midst.

Illuminati symbolIlluminati symbol

­My only wonder is: “what will it take to awaken and arouse our people to the full proof?” Perhaps this record [transcript] will do it. A hundred thousand or a million copies of this record can do it. I pray to God it will. And I pray that this record will inspire you, all of you, to spread this story to all loyal Americans in your community.

You can do it by playing it to study groups assembled in your homes, at meetings of the American Legion, the VFW, the DAR, all other civic groups and women’s clubs; especially the women’s clubs who have their sons lives at stake. With this record, I have provided you with the weapon that will destroy the monster. For the love of God, of our Country, and of your­ children, use it! Get a copy of it into every American home.

I hope that after reading this extraordinary transcription for 27 weeks, about the faceless elite that control the U.S. and the world, perception about what you were taught at school as the truth, have changed. There is another truth, which they don’t want us to know about. Thank you every one of you who read it. You may go back to read all the chapters from the very beginning by accessing www.elreporteroSF.com in old editions.

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Events during the Versatronex strike

­por David Bacon

La organizadora de la UE María Pantoja habla con los hueluistas de la Versatronex en una reunión en la: calle el primer día de huelga. (PHOTO BY DAVID BACON)UE organizer Maria Pantoja talks with Versatronex strikers at a meeting in the street on the first day of the strike, to elect the strike committee. ­ (PHOTO BY DAVID BACON)

On January 29, 1993 workers at the Versatronex plant in Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last time.

Seventeen years have passed since, but there are still electronics workers in Silicon Valley who remember the company’s name. It was the first valley plant struck by production employees, and the first where a strike won recognition of their union.

The struggle of these workers, almost all immigrants from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines, demolished some of the most cherished myths about the Silicon Valley workforce. It showed workers there are like workers everywhere. Under the right circumstances, even in the citadel of high tech’s open shop, people are willing to organize for a better life.

“We said at the beginning that if the company was going to close, let them close,” said Sandra Gomez, a leader of the Versatronex strike.

“But as long as the plant was open, we were going to fight for our rights.”

For a history of organizing in Silicon Valley, including the Versatronex strike, see the article, Up Against the Open Shop — The Hidden History of Silicon Valley’s High TechWorkers, By David Bacon.

­http://www.truth-out.org/up-against-opensh o p – h i d d e n – s t o r y -silicon-valleys-highte c h – w o r k e r s 6 8 1 6 7

 

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Why using electronic devices before bed may destroy sleep cycle

by Jonathan Benson

Natural News

Do you use your computer, watch television, or mess around on your cell phone within the hour before you go to bed at night?

If so, you might be altering your sleep cycle and preventing quality rest, according to a new study conducted as part of a National Sleep Foundation poll. Researchers say that staring at light-emitting screens during the hour before going to sleep inhibits the proper release of melatonin, a hormone that regulates the body’s natural sleep cycles.

Roughly 95 percent of poll respondents indicated that they typically play video games, watch television, use the computer, or access their smart phones within the hour before they go to sleep. And 43 percent of ­respondents between the ages of 13 and 64 said they rarely ever get a good night’s sleep during an average work week.

“This study reveals that light-emitting screens are in heavy use within the pivotal hour before sleep,” said Charles Czeisler from Harvard Medical School, in a Breitbart piece. “Invasion of such alerting technologies into the bedroom may contribute to the high proportion of respondents who report that they routinely get less sleep than they need.”

While respondents in older generations tended more towards passively watching television before bed, younger respondents indicated participation in more active and brain-engaging activities like playing video games and using smart phones, which experts say may be even worse for sleep and overall health.

“Over the last 50 years, we’ve seen how television viewing has grown to be a near constant before bed, and now we are seeing new information technologies such as laptops, cell phones, video games and music devices rapidly gaining the same status,” said Lauren Hale of Stony Brook University Medical Center. “The higher use of these potentially more sleep-disruptive technologies among younger generations may have serious consequences for physical health, cognitive development, and other measures of well-being.”

Keeping mobile phones and other radiation-emitting devices away from your bed at night will also help improve sleep quality by limiting exposure to the “electro-smog” they emit that can disrupt restful sleep.

Long-term exposure to even low levels of electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) may cause serious health problems, so it is always a smart idea to limit their use and keep them away from your body whenever possible (http://www.naturalnews.com/022926_E…). Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031652_electronic_devices_sleep.html#ixzz1GYyjZszw

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U.S. and Mexico row over ‘Fast & Furious

­by the El Reportero’s news services

Eric HolderEric Holder

The Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) concluded on March 10 that the Mexican government did not know about the US arms-smuggling operation ‘Fast & Furious’.

The PGR’s finding was contradicted by the US embassy in Mexico City which released a statement in which the US Justice Secretary, Eric Holder, is quoted as telling the Senate Appropriations commerce, justice and science subcommittee that the Mexican government did know about ‘Operation Fast & Furious’.

This was an operation under which the US Bureau of Alcohol Firearms, Tobacco & Explosives (ATF) allowed assault rifles and other weapons to be smuggled to gangsters in Mexico. The idea was to track the weapons and so roll-up complete smuggling networks. According to at least one ATF official, however, the ATF lost track of most of the weapons.

Ecuador moves onto electoral footing as court approves referendum

Ecuadoreans will go to the polls on May 7 to vote on a popular referendum tabled by President Rafael Correa. The referendum, which contains 10 questions, was adjudged to be acceptable by the constitutional court.

Correa can now partake in a surrogate electoral campaign for the next two months, at a cost of US$22m. The stakes are high. If he wins, he will be empowered, among other things, to undertake a sweeping judicial reform.

The traditional opposition, which he pejoratively describes as the partidocracy, will try and thwart him, but the main challenge will be provided by founding members of his Alianza País (AP), who have grown disillusioned with what they consider to be the increasingly authoritarian turn of his citizens’ revolution.

Piñera shows soft side to boost flagging popularity

What has gone wrong? One year after taking offi ce on March 11, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera is struggling to arrest a declining approval rating. Contending with the fallout from a huge earthquake was a tough start for any head of state but since then he has enjoyed a boost from the “miner miracle” and benefi ted from the long mourning period of the leftwing Concertación which, after 20 years in power, is yet to provide coherent opposition.

Piñera seems to have concluded that his relentless focus on long-term targets has blinded his government to the signifi cance of sudden developments, such as the recent gas protests in Magallanes, and that he

must deliver in the shortterm.

After a major foreign tour to the Middle East, the Vatican and Spain, he plans to remedy this on his return to Chile, and show in the process that the Right has a social conscience.

­Violence morphs again

The killing of Jaime Zapata, the fi rst US government offi cial to be murdered while on duty in Mexico since 1985, has overshadowed what appears to be at least a stabilisation of the gang killing rate in Mexico in the fi rst couple of months of 2011.

This stabilisation, however, does not mean that the government can claim, finally, to be winning its self-declared war against the gangs.

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F as in Fat Report: Obesity epidemic is increasing among Hispanics

by Raisa Camargo

As the economy continues to struggle, obesity rates are climbing for people of color.

A study published last summer shows nationwide obesity rates escalating in most southern states, and experts cite financial hardship as a contributing factor.

The ‘F’ as in Fat Report: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010, released in June by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows national obesity rates have increased in 28 states during the past year.

In Latino communities, lacking access to nutritional foods coupled with affordability is a determining factor of an unhealthy lifestyle. This trend is correlated with poverty.

The TFAH has published the report annually for seven years, but this is the first year the report includes statistics based on ethnicity.

The rate of adult obesity for African Americans is higher than 30 percent in 43 states and above that figure for Latinos in 19 states. Ten of the 11 states with the highest rates of diabetes are in the south, as are the 10 states with the highest hypertension rates. Southern states also have the lowest rates of physical activity.

“The rates of Hispanic obesity should be a call to action,” says Jason Llorenz, senior policy advisor at the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. “There are folks that are so morbidly obese that they will not get on a scale.”

The Washington, D.C.- based National Council of La Raza reports 41 percent of Hispanics  lack basic health literacy, while a 2008 census reported one third of Latinos have no health insurance.

The TFAH reports income inequality as a primary factor related to obesity, noting that 35.3 percent of adults who earn less than $15,000 per year are obese. Of adults who earn $50,000 or more, 24.5 percent are obese. TFAH senior research associate Serena Vinter observes that those states that have higher education levels have lower obesity rates.

Tennessee , whichranks ninth nationally among states with the lowest average income, has the highest obesity rate among Latinos – 39 percent.

A lack of resources like money, recreational facilities or grocery stores contributes to sedentary lifestyles in low-income areas, says Juan Canedo, director of Progreso Community Center, a grassroots Hispanic organization in Nashville. Not everyone can afford to buy healthier food, he says, and crime in lowincome areas impacts residents’ level of activity.

Jennifer Ng’andu, the deputy director of NCLR’s Health Policy Project, said a lack of affordable fresh fruits and vegetables in communities where major food markets are absent – usually in impoverished areas – leads to increased ­consumption of unhealthy fast foods among Latinos.

“I don’t think people are addressing the root causes of obesity in the Latino community,” Ng’andu said. Steps are being taken to combat the obesity epidemic, including a nutritional policy that targets junk food, Tennessee’s Health Commissioner Susan Cooper said.

“We acknowledge it’s a problem,” she says. “But there’s not one policy that can change this overnight.” Hispanic Link.

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Rubén Salazar, journalism’s reluctant martyr

por Charlie Ericksen
Hispanic Link News Service

Rubén SalazarRubén Salazar

Mexican-American journalist Rubén Salazar held no aspirations to be recognized as a natIonal Latino leader, Yet that’s how a mix of old-timers and college kids who majored in Chicano Studies extol him every Aug. 29, the date in 1970 when he was killed by a cop.

Rubén, ever the joker, would have laughed in your face if you told him that one day his own face would adorn a commemorative U.S. postage stamp. Elaborate dual dedication ceremonies by the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles and at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., introduced such a stamp on April 22, 2008. It was a 42-cent one, by coincidence representing the number of years Rubén lived before a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff triggered the missile into Rubén’s head that killed him instantly, Rubén’s blonde late wife Sally used to say that RUben — not ruBEN (she stressed the first syllable of his name, not the last, as it would be pronounced in Spanish) — was a steakand-Scotch person, not a taco-and-tequila connoisseur, like those who toast him annually with ice-cold Coronas, con limón.

As schools and streets were being named in his memory, Sally would quote her children, all of whom were under 10 at the time he was killed, as inquiring if he really was that person being lionized as a brown crusader from the rostrum. They knew him as the dad they splashed with in their backyard swimming pool in Orange County.

Associates who knew him best recognized Rubén as culturally both Mexican and American. He revelled in his hyphenated environment. Just don’t mislabel him as a “Mexican-American journalist.” He was a journalist — period. With his depth of understanding of people in our polyglot world, he excelled with lengthy assignments as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia in a profession overstaffed with Ivy Leaguers who parachute into Mexico or the simmering Middle East ­wearing trench coats and blinkers while posing as global experts. Rubén was the real thing. War-ravaged Vietnam was major beat on his résumé.

He integrated the nearlily- white Los Angeles Times news staff in 1959 after already having honed his multiple reporting talents and proven his perceptive and objective depth at the El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post, Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat and San Francisco News. Arriving in Southern California, he accepted no activists’ claims that the police were habitually discriminatory and brutal in their treatment of Latinos until he himself witnessed the pattern.

That’s when he started reporting on the realities of living and dying in L.A.’s barrios — a journalistic journey that ultimately led to his untimely death.

(With his Oaxacan wife, Sebastiana Mendoza, and their eldest son, Héctor, Charlie Ericksen founded Hispanic Link News Service in Washington, D.C., in 1979 as the nation’s only news syndicate that featured Latino and Latina writers to report and comment on the emerging ethnic community’s status and its contributions.)

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The agenda of the Illuminati – 26th part of the series

­by Marvin Ramíre­z­

­­Marvin  J. Ramírez­Ma­rv­in­ R­­a­­m­­­í­r­­­ez­­­­­

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Given the important and historical information contained in this 31-page article on the history of the secret and evil society, The Illuminati, El Reportero is honored to provide our readers with the opportunity to read such a document by Myron C. Fagan, which mainstream media has labeled it a conspiracy theory. To better understand this series, we suggest to also read the previous articles published in our previous editorials.

­This is the twenty-sixth part of the series.

The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati takeover agenda for America would have been aborted, just as Russia’s Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati’s plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America’s sovereignty. It’s understandable that most listeners of that period would have found it impossible to believe that the Kennedy’s, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati’s stranglehold by issuing U.S. silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati’s decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father’s killers after he gained public office).

— Do I have to tell you more about how this National Council of Churches is deliberately destroying faith in Christianity? I don’t think so, but this I will tell you.

If you are a member of any congregation whose pastor and church are members of this Judas organization, you and your contributions are helping the Illuminati’s plot to destroy Christianity and your faith in God and Jesus Christ thus you are deliberately delivering your children to be indoctrinated with disbelief in God and Church and which can easily transform them into atheists.

Find out immediately if your Church is a member of the National Council of Churches and for the love of God and your children; if it is, withdraw from it at once. However; let me warn you that the same destroying religion process has been infiltrated into other denominations. If you have seen the “Negro on Selma” and other such demonstrations; you have seen how the Negro mobs are led and encouraged by ministers (and even Catholic priests and nuns) who march along with them.

There are many individual churches and pastors who are honest and sincere. Find one such for yourself and for your children. Incidentally; ­this same Reverend Harry F. Ward was also one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union, a notorious pro-communist organization. He was the actual head of it from 1920 to 1940. He also was a co-founder of the American League against War and Fascism which, under Browder, became the Communist Party of the United States.

In short, Ward’s entire background reeked of communism and he was identified as a member of the communist party. He died a vicious traitor to both his church and country and this was the man old John D. Rockefeller picked and financed to destroy America’s Christian religion in accordance with the orders given to Schiff by the Rothschilds. In conclusion I have this to say. You probably are familiar with the story of how one Dr. Frankenstien created a monster to do his will of destroying his chosen victims but how instead in the end, that monster turned on his own creator, Frankenstien, and destroyed him.

Well, the Illuminati/CFR has created a monster called the United Nations (who is supported by their minority groups, rioting negroes, the traitorous mass communications media, and the traitors in Washington D.C.) which was created to destroy the American people. IT WILL CONTINUE IN THE NEXT WEEK’S EDITION.

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Gas is going up, but here are some tips to get more for your $

­by an unknown writer

Un conductor no indentificado le pone gasolina a su autoAn unidentified motorist fills his car up with gas.  (PHOTO BY WIRE SERVICES)

I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline… but here in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon:

Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose, CA, we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline… One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening… your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you’re filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you’re getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it  minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom. To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It’s really simple to do.

I’m sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)… and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) and so on, by the time the message ­reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it… T H R E E H U N D R E D MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

 

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