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Part of the additives in gasoline are chemicals that keep water in suspension but, under certain conditions, it can separate and settle out or react with components in the fuel system. For the most part, petroleum distillates of different densities will easily mix to form a homogeneous mixture.

Not at stations owned by big companies. More often it happens at independent stores where the owner simply recalibrates one, two, several or all of the pumps to dispense only a percentage of the fuel displayed. The usual scam is to have the pump faithful up to the 5-gallon mark then have the...

And back-of-napkin calculations figure that you lost about 5 gallons (8 gallons used for 50 miles in a car that gets 20mlg). So one of your neighborhood delinquents risked getting shot over $13 worth of gas

Either the pump was wildly inaccurate OR you had a gas thief. There's nothing that could be added to fuel which would cause it to use that much volume. The engine's management computer wouldn't allow the system to push 5x the amount of gas without throwing up a "check engine" light or going into...