Petrol LOL

I rushed out the night before budget announcement day, expecting petrol tax to go up. But it didn't, not until August. However, that will do for now. As there is no REAL shortage of fuel, I'm not so worried.

johannes wrote: [snip]

Really? Can you point to any government advice that said "fill a glass jug with petrol close to the naked flame of a gas cooker"?

Cuz not, the guv never give such micro-management advice. But they did advice people to store petrol in other places than in their cars. An advice which I didn't follow since I know that petrol fumes are highly volatile. A spark from a light switch could also set it off (as it usually does in our engines).

No, she wasn't. She was just being incredibly, unutterably stupid.

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True, but how many times has she poured petrol from container to container in her kitchen to help her daughter? I would guess never, until that idiot Maude's remarks about storing petrol.

The guv advice was incredibly, unutterably stupid. Why was there not any mention of dangers involved? They could easily have arranged a little demonstration of what petrol fumes can do.

Like explode in the engine of a car?

The woman was dumber than a pile of foxshit, bet she wouldnt have placed a hot iron on her forehead?

MONG.

But many people don't know nothing what is under the bonnet. And that's a fact, even though it may seem strange to posters in this group.

Do you NEED a nanny state? Rog

Is the right answer. The rest of your post is going to be ignorant babbling, isn't it?

I think in one or two areas they give extremely fine-grained advice.

Oh yes indeed, they advised people to store a quantity of petrol in a metal can in the garage. Something that is actually sensible and legal.

Really? How many light switches does your engine have?

Oh, I see I won my wager.

If people don't know the dangers of petrol, they really don't deserve any better than to die in a ball of flames.

This is Johannes. So that'll be yes.

Hmm... only because she'd tried that as a kid and knew it hurt.

I don't see how J (and the other whingers) gets to blame the govt on this one.

But unlike most other people, I was clever enough not to join the queues for petrol, and at inflated prices at that. haha

I think te government underestimated the amount of people who on a general basis only ever stick £20.00 a time in the tank

In the grand scheme of things, around 2p a litre does not count as 'inflated prices'.