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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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 Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:13 am Post subject: Buying Petrol.. |
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So, we are out tomorrow in our truck but the nearest fuel station is like 4 miles in the opposite direction to where we're going so I buy some fuel in cans from town.
Well, I've just been in to Morrisons in town and was happily filling the two cans I took with me.
Then I hear on the tannoy 'pump 2...pump 2'...repeating...well I was head down filling the cans and it's pay at the pump so I'd taken no notice what the pump number was but it was me.
So I looked up after some more irate calling and the lady in the booth said 'you do know its a maximum of 2 cans per vehicle? You need to hold up the cans you've filled before driving off?'...
What??? Seriously?? Never been questioned before and I even used the same station on Thursday this week!!
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Keith D
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Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Is there a petrol shortage in the UK now? Perhaps that is why you are being restricted.
We have no shortages as present. We have three choices of petrol. 91, 95 and 98 octane. 91 octane is our ULP and I always buy my petrol on a Tuesday at about $1.70 (85p) a litre. On Wednesday the price jumps to about $2.20 (?1.10) per litre. Crazy! It then slowly reduces until it reaches about $1.70 the next Tuesday. All garages have to advertise their prices outside and they have to inform the State Government by 2.30pm the price they will charge the next day. There is a webpage that lets you see all these prices so that you can choose where to go for the best price as all servos post different prices.
Most 'bread and butter' cars here run quite happily on 91. The Europeans like 95 and the real hot stuff needs 98.
95 octane is about 5p dearer than 91 and 98 octane is about 12p dearer that 91.
Keith
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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It has nothing to do with supply.
The maximum legal capacity for a plastic petrol container is 10 litres (metal can is 20 litres) and forecourts only permit two containers per car.
How many litres did you want? |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2024 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: | | The maximum legal capacity for a plastic petrol container is 10 litres (metal can is 20 litres) and forecourts only permit two containers per car. |
I don't remember the numbers, but I do remember that there's a sign on all the pumps at my local Sainsbury's petrol station with the limits on. I was only looking the other week as I was filling a 20l metal can that I'd just been given.
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Bitumen Boy
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In reality it depends on the garage, and how keen they are on enforcing the rules... Years ago I was filling 4x 20 litre cans with petrol on an almost daily basis to run a generator at work and nobody said boo about it. I never understood why the company didn't invest in a diesel generator though, with red diesel they would have saved a fortune - and they had red diesel delivered to the site anyway for running diggers and the like...  |
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ukdave2002
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Rusty
Joined: 10 Feb 2009
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Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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| Ray White wrote: |
The maximum legal capacity for a plastic petrol container is 10 litres
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I am glad we don't have those rules here!
When I go on a fishing holiday with some mates with a boat I sometimes fill six 20ltr plastic jerry cans and nobody at the servos have ever said anything except the price. |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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We went to an event yesterday and I recounted the story to my Brother who was there with his truck.
He took his Jerry Can to an Asda filling station where he lives and they refused to let him fill it!!
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MikeEdwards
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I wonder if it was a reaction to the various things that happened during one of the fuel blockades. I recall stories of houses going up in flames because people had stored fuel in ridiculous containers, open trays, that kind of thing.
It does make me wonder, though, about these synthetic fuels that are starting to become available. Once they get down in price to something a little less crazy, the next problem is where to keep the drum.
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but apparently it is law since 2014:
