Wing mirrors on cars

[The Natural Philosopher]

NATURAL gas, or propane, or butane.

[boltar]

To coin a phrase "Well they would, wouldn't they?". It could possibly be like the lead on 4 star that coated the valves, but as soon as you stopped using 4 star the lead slowly wore away and eventually your valves would start to wear out. If anything stuck to the inside of the engine that couldn't be burned away it would continue to accumulate and eventually clog it. Ditto the fuel pipes and injectors. So IMO their claim is complete bollocks.

[Roger Hayter]

Would it be argumentative/obsessive/confusing to mention LPG here?

[NY]

I wonder how America will cope if LPG takes off in a big way over there and they need to distinguish between "gas" (ie LPG, using "gas" in the sense of vapour) and gasoline, commonly shortened to "gas".

I'd be wary about using "paved". I tend to think of "paved" as meaning covered in a rectangular grid of paving stones, each about a metre square - as on a patio or a garden path. However I know that US usage of "paved" also includes a large area of concrete or tarmac.

[NY]

Yes I'm inclined to the Mandy Rice Davies response as well. You wouldn't want anything that left an accumulating residue inside your engine or fuel pump/pipes/injectors.

I suppose they could detect a residue of the chemical markers (the ones that are in addition to the obvious red dye) for a few days/weeks, even if you flushed through with white diesel, but anything longer than a few weeks sounds like pure scary bollocks.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It probably dates back to when working garages sold petrol, and the pumps were at the front of the garage.

Not so applicable to the average filling station these days.

[Bob Eager]

Forecourt is the part of a petrol station/garage where the pumps are. It is common usage.

I once qualified (!) as a Senior Forecourt Salesman and had a badge...no, I didn't sell forecourts. But I did learn tyre fitting and other stuff.

[boltar]

Pump island sounds like somewhere Club 18-30 would advertise "special" holidays!

[rbowman]

Usually we would say LP or propane. I wouldn't call the container in my backyard a gas tank. Even technically it isn't a gas tank although some liquid propane does enter the gaseous phase.

[rbowman]

I cannot disagree. From the viewpoint of many US businesses, the UK was just a convenient door into the EU. Lacking that the Republic of Ireland will do. It's already an attractive country.

I see no reason for Europe to get caught up in the US hysteria about Russia. I was hoping Trump would result in a better relationship but leftover cold warriors are deeply entrenched in our government. I would rather see a good relationship with Putin than with some of the scum we insist on promoting but I'm neither king or president.

[boltar]

The tank in your car is even less of a gas tank!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Why would anyone obey a speed limit? It's just a number on a sign.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

The thing is it's legal.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Why do you answer every one of my pots if you consider me a troll?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So you call a liquid a gas then get confused when you actually have a gas. Please learn basic English.

[rbowman]

Around here the pumps are sort of an afterthought to the casino and convenience store. I think there might be one actual garage left in town.

When I graduated college I briefly thought about that as a career path but that was fifty years ago. Later in life I thought about buying an old school garage, not as a business but for my own use. Two bays, a hydraulic lift, and an office space that could be converted into an apartment. What's not to like? Unfortunately, most come with leaking in-ground tanks that are an environmental disaster that costs a fortune to make right.

[soup]

I was wondering how Czechoslovakia was a colony until I realised Tata is not Tatra

[rbowman]

According to that we were calling it gasoline before you were calling it petrol. Learn from your betters.

[rbowman]

Speeding tickets? This state didn't have a daytime speed limit until about 15 years ago but most people didn't do much more than 80 anyway. Even at 80 the fuel economy in my car drops from the high 30's to 29-30 mpg and the bikes aren't much better. Beside that a bike at 90 often isn't the most pleasant ride in the world.

[rbowman]

I didn't say that. I said I enjoy trolling you. It's a more productive way to work off my aggression than the time honored American method of shooting up a gay nightclub.