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AlterNet: Oil Companies Are Using a Simple Trick to Bilk Consumers out of Billions

AlterNet: Oil Companies Are Using a Simple Trick to Bilk Consumers out of Billions: "Oil companies know that gasoline expands at higher temperatures and has less volume at lower ones, but they've refused to upgrade gas stations with a simple tool that would adjust the price of gas according to its temperature."

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