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The volume and corresponding energy content of a gallon of diesel fuel varies according to its temperature. Warmer fuel has less energy per gallon than cooler fuel.
ATA believes that the highly competitive market for retail fuel sales mitigates the impact of temperature fluctuations and that the use of automatic temperature compensation (ATC) equipment would increase the cost of retail fuel dispensing activities, which would likely will be passed on to the trucking industry. For this reason, ATA opposes regulations that would require fuel retailers to sell temperature corrected fuel. ATA also opposes permissive temperature compensation, which allows fuel retailers to choose whether to sell temperature corrected fuel.
Retailers, following their own economic interests, would very likely install ATC equipment only where the average temperature of the fuel dispensed is below the 60 degree reference temperature (thereby decreasing the volume of fuel dispensed) and refrain from such installations where the average temperature of the fuel dispensed is above the reference temperature (choosing not to increase the volume of fuel dispensed). Legislation concerning the use of ATC devices has been introduced at both the federal level and in California, Missouri, New Jersey, and Texas.
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