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Automotive News & Views What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?
1503 messages, Last post on Nov 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 14, 2009 6:58 am)  That is why I looked several times at the pump before I filled my Sequoia with RUG from a green nozzle at a BP in KY. All their Unleaded used green pump handles. Not sure their thinking. It is hard to believe someone able to afford a $75k Mercedes would be that inattentive to his vehicle. |
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Not sure if it makes it safer or riskier, but NJ (along with what, Oregon?) donoesn't allow self serve. So, you get some old man that doesn't speak anything passing for English putting your fuel in. BP likes green, so I guess they carried the color scheme over to the pump handles. I don't have a deisel (except for when I drive the Ryder Freighliner for the band), but I do know some stations by me have a stand along pump. That seems a lot safer. I guess there is no way to prevent cross contamination though, since 1 nozzle will always be smaller than the other. Just have to decide do you want diesel in you gasser, or vice versa! Probably safer to make the small hole diesel, since there are way more gas cars running around. |
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| actually, I may be looking at a diesel soon. I may be switching back to a long commute soon (90/day, mostly highway, although not always moving!). If I do, I may get a new or newer car, and obviously MPG will be important. It just seems like a perfect set up for the positives of a diesel. | |
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 14, 2009 6:58 am) You wouldn't think so. Until you get to be my age and find yourself doing stuff like that all the time.  One example - like many of y'all, I've been posting here for ~9 years now. I'm sure a neurosurgeon would have a field day comparing posts and noting how many words I leave out of my paragraphs now. Usually I catch them in edit mode, but lots more errors slip through these days (just caught one in this post in fact). And now I have to worry about pumping the wrong fuel in my car at a "gas" station. Sheesh. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Oct 14, 2009 7:59 am) Of course, if the mistake is on the part of the station - mislabeled pumps or tanks filled in error...then the liability is 100% theirs. |
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 14, 2009 8:17 am) 
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 14, 2009 8:17 am) So figure this with this new technology or just dealers are trying to screw you when you can not even take risk to start the car.
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Replying to: agrawal (Oct 14, 2009 8:26 am) |
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Replying to: agrawal (Oct 14, 2009 8:26 am) |
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 14, 2009 8:35 am) Well, it's still unreasonable, just not unusual in this case. Matter of semantics.
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