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"Petrol Question"

Someone was talking to me about petrol, how he thought the stuff at supermarket petrol stations was only cheaper because it was the 'dregs' that more expensive petrol companies didn't want. Because it's a lower quality, he said, it's used less efficiently by the engine giving less miles to the gallon than other petrol and so overall a false economy.

What do you make of this?
Genuine interesting and useful fact?
Or myth started by more expensive petrol companies and perpetuated by the kinds of men who'll buy into the emperors' clothes of such garbage so they can sound clever?


Petrol's expensive enough, without having to pay from my gas guzzling family to freeload off what I put in the car (I seeth for every hour I work my crap job to pay for their screwing me over). Can you save me some money?!

Use the AA petrol busters to find your cheapest place to fill up.

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Supermarket petrol stations are often supplied by companies who have petrol stations near by.

Such as BP, Texaco, Shell, etc.

The prices are often the same, and that's how you can tell.

That is my understanding anyway.

cookie monster wrote:
> Saggy, you seem troubled.

I'm beginning to doubt my father's intentions. I think that Coal could live a lot longer than a day, with the right loving and care given to it. Therefore I think that my dad was a murderer.

Saggy, you seem troubled.

Rosalind wrote:
> SHEEPY wrote:
> Petrol
>
> as in Mmmmmm Petrol?

As in my pet roll? Supermarkets could be on to something here: a product which you can take care of, eat or use as fuel. Every christmas I used to get a lump of coal in my stocking and had to look after it all day. I'd put it on a leash and take it round my mates house, to see how many better presents he'd got this year. Then after dinner my dad would tell me that Coca had died (I always named my coal coca) and we needed to cremate him in order that he could pass on to the other side.

We'd sit and watch as Coca and his friends, who sadly had to join him every year, were passed on to the angels to look after.

Sometimes my tears would be scalding, as they slid down my cheeks, such was the warmth of Coca's love as he combusted.

Ashes to ashes
dust to dust
Cocas gone to heaven
as all fossil fuels must

SHEEPY wrote:
> Petrol

as in Mmmmmm Petrol?

Petrol

Most supermarkets are situated on oil fields and thus have their own readily available supply. As there is no need for importing oil, the cost savings can be passed onto the consumer.

I heard somewhere that supermarkets often don't make on overall profit, or make only a small profit from their petrol stations, and use them more as a way to entice people to shop with them for groceries etc.

No, i think its more likely to be cheaper due to the larger buying power that supermarkets command.