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The Mysterious Forecourt Penny
thermidorthelobster:
My local garage has about 8 pumps on the go at any given time. Assuming one in five users are paying a penny over, and the pumps are used about 8 times an hour on average, that's: 13p per hour! Thieving swine!
On a car it's a different pipe for supply and return. So one sensor only detects fuel going one way. The point about the pump is that it's fuel dripping back in. Not sure there's much they can do about that.
Range Rover Blues:
You think that's bad? in the USA they have vapour recovery nozzles that suck up the smeely fumes coming out of you tankt o make way for all that lovely tax you've just bought. They then condense it and put it back intot heir underground tanks, and sell it back to you.
So not only arre they charging you for it twice but actually sucking it back out of your car :P
boogieman:
No, no .............. it was all explained about the mysterious penny on Not the Nine O'clock News some years ago !
The clip showed a motorist filling up with petrol & edging the dial painstakingly slowly towards the rounded £ mark he wished to stop at. Then with a very self-satisfied smile on his face, he very careful placed the nozzle back on the pump.
The camera then switched into the cashier, who tapped a button on the console, and the extra 1p popped up on the pump display - much to the annoyance of the customer :lol:
(tried to find the clip but unfortunately I couldn't)
So there you have it !!! :lol: :shock: :smiley:
POTASH:
i always notice the price starts going round before the fuel starts coming out the nozzle :angry:
mike142sl:
--- Quote from: thermidorthelobster on December 31, 2008, 13:24:19 --- Thieving swine!
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I think the point is it's the motorist that is actually leaving it there rather than the garage taking it. Many more people are so slack they leave quite a bit more than a pennies worth on the floor as well.
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