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This double tanker truck, and many more just like it, are always somewhere in Vancouver -- burning gas, to deliver gas.In the case of this particular rig, it's offloading 37,000 litres (10,000 U.S. Gallons) of gasoline. The driver explained this was his weight limit, not the total capacity. He said he delivers gas twice-a-week to this Esso gas station, at the corner of Hemlock Street, and Broadway Avenue, but that the delivery frequency varies by gas station.



According to this obscure (to me) search engine result, there are "1,127 Gasoline Service Stations in British Columbia, Canada." Probably low, but still, that's a lot of delivery trips. SUV's seem to average about a 30 US Gal. tank size, so this load could quench the petro-thirst of about 327 of them. There appear to be approximately a gazzillion of them, so that works out to ... Um... did I mention that "Esso," in Canada, is the brand of Imperial Oil?

Imperial Oil is 69.8% owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. "Esso" was originally Standard Oil's external brand name (outside the U.S.) -- made from spelling out the initials of the Standard Oil company. Both Exxon, and Mobil, were originally the two largest  parts created by the U.S. government's 1911 breakup of  Standard Oil. In 1999, they merged. Their largest single shareholder, fittingly, is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Click the images to enlarge them.

[caption id="attachment_6653" align="alignnone" width="497"] Not as frightening as when I'm on my bike![/caption]

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