http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-badly-burned-trying-store-petrol-090248818.html

I always thought you only "decanted sherry... or was I bought up wrong?

anyway I would not pour petrol in a kitchen with the gas burners on....."when will they learn"!


can't wait for the jerk to syphon out a petrol tank with a vacuum cleaner..... seem to remember someone doing this years ago and burning the garage down.

the local garage has put prices up for petrol to over 1.51 a litre.. cashing in on the "PANIC"...

Waitrose in Swaffham are rationing petrol, 50 litres maximum.....what use is that in a Jag   

Even worse the local Jet station in Downham Market are limiting you to £10 so SWMBO tells me not sure that would get me back home from the petrol station!!

Cheers
Mark

Filled up at the new Morrisons in Wisbech this morning, 6.10 am no queue 138.9 for unleaded. 1.46 for Diesel, Local BP charging 150.9 for Diesel My Berlingo van swallowed £80 of diesel...used to buy cars cheaper than that!! Glad I got rid of the Sprinter, that  would prob take about £130.00 now

   Brian

Highest Petrol price in London was in Chelsea...£1.79.9

There seem so few petrol stations open these days that the days of driving into an empty forecourt are long gone.   Plus you then have to wait for the person in the shop buying a coffee, a VAT rated pastie, their weekly shopping and a 20 B&H...then when they finally get back to their car and check their phone then talk to their passenger, take a bite of their pastie then start their car, then put their seat belt on...then wait 30 seconds, another bite of the pastie...get a ****** move on!!!

You pull up the pump and the last sale was £3.

But... do you decant petrol.









now where did i put the sherry petrol decanter?

I frequently decant petrol, measuriing it out precisely for 2 stroke mix, or filling my industrial engines.
I do it near the open door of a well ventilated garage.
There used to be a few petrol fires at race meetings - people used to wash air filters out in it (and still do). Its now the rule that all competitors carry an approved fire extinguisher.
I think most peole are relatively uneducated about the dangers of petrol and are unaware how flamable / explosive it can be on a warm day.
I was helping a friend with a non starting grass track kart last night (turned out to be sheared flywhell woodruf key). We deliberately had only 0.5 L of fuel in tank just in case it caught in the Garage as competition 2 stroke engines can following a backfire.
Cheers