Why's Parrafin dearer than Petrol?

[George]

£5.30 for a gallon of Parrafin,thats a bit much ain't it.

[Andy Hall]

Why does a dog lick its bollocks?

[George]

Cos its back legs are nearer to the ground.

[Andy Hall]

'cos it can.

The market is smaller than it used to be. In days gone buy, people used it in stoves for heating. Nowadays, anybody wanting that form of space heating is using LPG.

The applications are for other things now and volumes smaller. Probably the market is not as price sensitive as it would be if the application were heating. Therefore the suppliers can increase the prices without impacting sales. Probably if somebody needs paraffin, they need it rather than anything else.

[1501]

Why are you so interested? Are you jealous you can't?

[Lobster]

Who says he can't?

[Andy Hall]

You don't know that I can't.....

[Dave Baker]

He probably could if he asked the dog nicely.

[Andy Hall]

Exactly.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I can lick my dogs' bollocks anytime I want.

It's not been a frequent occurence though.

[Dave Liquorice]

You can get petrol for less than 116.7p/l? I use diesel but that last time I half noticed petrol prices they were much nearer 120p/l than

115p/l.

What do you want the parrafin for? Domestic heating oil is parrafin, kerosene etc. Might be less refined and thus a bit smellier than the refined and expensive "parsene" you find in sheds and garden centres. Mi= nd you domestic heating oil is about 60p/l (=A32.67/gallon). To get such a =

small quantity offer folding money to someone with oil heating.

[George]

You can get petrol for less than 116.7p/l? I use diesel but that last time I half noticed petrol prices they were much nearer 120p/l than

115p/l.

What do you want the parrafin for? Domestic heating oil is parrafin, kerosene etc. Might be less refined and thus a bit smellier than the refined and expensive "parsene" you find in sheds and garden centres. Mind you domestic heating oil is about 60p/l (£2.67/gallon). To get such a small quantity offer folding money to someone with oil heating.

-- Cheers Dave.

Parrafin is good for reviving oil stains outside the house on the pathway,I'd use petrol but this has a tendancy to evaporate far too quickly as opposed to parrafin which soaks in and revives the dried out oil stain overnight and then I scrub the spots of oil the next day with more parrafin. Doing this a few times eventually brings the surface to a clean looking pathway,might be some grey spots from where the oil stains used to be but gnerally its looking a lot better. The woman across the road parks her car half on the pavement and she has a small oil leak,I've had murder with her over it and she's persisting it does not have an oil leak but she still parks it there even when I've told her not to park it outside my house, even if she cant park it on her own side of the road. The bloody council are useless they wont even intervene and it is a direct parking offence to obstruct a public pathway ie sometime a woman with a pram would not be able to get past and would therefor need to go onto the road and round the car.

[Frank Erskine]

Currently unleaded is 115.9p/l around here.

[PCPaul]

Where's 'here'?

Round *here* (Gloucestershire) 119.5-120p/l is the price everywhere.

[John Rumm]

Yup, if you offer the dog a biscuit first they will often le you...

[John Rumm]

While I appreciate it is annoying, she has as much right to park there as anyone else.

[George]

Not on the kerb she hasn't,this is a narrow street,so narrow that only one side of cars are able to park actually on the road,two cars on either side of the road and opposite eachother and you will not be able to get the emergency services down the road not to mentions any vans.

[Schrodinger's cat]

He can, but dog's bollocks probably dont taste too good.

[Schrodinger's cat]

Sorry for repeated bad joke. I should have read further down...

[John Rumm]

Well you could say she has no right to park on the pavement - but that is still the same as for anyone else! ;-)

Which suggests, being pragmatic, if there are more cars than will fit on ones side of the road, the ones parking opposite ought to park partly on the pavement.