Amid a surge in fuel prices and fear of shortages, SA police chief signals officers might stop investigating ‘drive-offs’ unless service stations install prepaid pumps
The picture is interesting. Do Aussies have pumps with separate handles for each grade? Stateside we have one handle and buttons on the console to choose.
Here in the US my experience for the most part has been one handle for gasoline with buttons for each grade and sometimes a separate handle for diesel. I think places with one handle dispensing multiple octanes have a minimum volume (usually a couple gallons) to make sure your gas has at least the octane you selected even if there was lower octane gas left in the line.
The picture is interesting. Do Aussies have pumps with separate handles for each grade? Stateside we have one handle and buttons on the console to choose.
This is the norm around the globe.
Once again, the US is the outlier and thinks it’s the norm.
You have the unholy petrol cloaca???
Thanks for making me google cloaca, you goddamn cloaca.
There are plenty of “one grade per handle” pumps state side as well.
Different handles is the norm as far as I know. Not sure I’ve ever seen one with buttons to change with a single handle.
Here in the US my experience for the most part has been one handle for gasoline with buttons for each grade and sometimes a separate handle for diesel. I think places with one handle dispensing multiple octanes have a minimum volume (usually a couple gallons) to make sure your gas has at least the octane you selected even if there was lower octane gas left in the line.
Yes.
Diesel (with a high flow button) is increasingly on each bowser too, so we couldn’t have a selector switch.