On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:02 PM, John Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
From my experience in the USA, prepay is only available by going inside
and paying the clerk. If it turns out you didn't have enough room in your
fuel tank for the amount you prepaid for, you go inside a second time and
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:47 AM, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
On Tue Jun 9 13:23:05 2015 GMT+0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2015-06-09 13:48 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
While I agree that fueling only is minimum service and not full
service, around here (Europe)
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:38 PM, John Willis jo...@mac.com wrote:
On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
P brands (Arco, Amoco, BP, Aral, am/pm, Wild Bean) usually make you go
inside anyway and don't let you pay at the pump.
A long time ago the self pumps
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 07:15 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:47 AM, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
Why worry, the ANPR cameras will get you anyway.
I'd honestly be surprised if those are widely employed, because
they're damn near useless. There's well over 200
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 13:02 -0500, John Eldredge wrote:
From my experience in the USA, prepay is only available by going inside and
paying the clerk. If it turns out you didn't have enough room in your fuel
tank for the amount you prepaid for, you go inside a second time and get a
refund.
On Jun 11, 2015, at 3:13 AM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote:
The only stations I know of that still do post-pay are RaceWay stations
(or it might have been RaceTrac, it's been a while) and those require
you to swipe a (store-issued) ID card at the pump first.
In Japan, a lot of
2015-06-09 13:07 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org:
Everything else being the same (taxes, base fuel price, etc), minimum
service is always about 10-15 cents *cheaper* than self service because
they're not having to foot the bill for untrained and unknown people
handling hazardous
On Jun 9, 2015, at 8:07 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Everything else being the same (taxes, base fuel price, etc), minimum service
is always about 10-15 cents *cheaper*
The idea that a human costs less than a credit card reader built in the pump is
an intriguing proposition
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 06:07 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Full service does cost more, because full service typically checks and
tops off any fluids you're low on, along with checking your tires and
cleaning your windows as part of the price included; and (sometimes,
if they're fishing for
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com
wrote:
I would like to propose that the tag full_service=yes be used to tag
gas stations that are full serve (i.e. an attendant pumps gas, like
all gas stations in New Jersey and Oregon).
Nope! You're conflating minimum
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:17 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
While I agree that fueling only is minimum service and not full
service, around here (Europe) minimum service is always cheaper than
self because there is someone who does work for you, while in self you
will do it and nobody has
2015-06-09 14:47 GMT+02:00 p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
Do they give change? Otherwise how do you know how much to prepay?
actually this is just one type of petrol stations, a small typology for the
city, there's lots of them, without a roof, it is just a very small cabin
and 2 pumps. During
On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
P brands (Arco, Amoco, BP, Aral, am/pm, Wild Bean) usually make you go inside
anyway and don't let you pay at the pump.
A long time ago the self pumps were crap - but i have never seen pufdles of
fuel anywhere.
Now
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 06:07 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Full service does cost more, because full service typically checks and
tops off any fluids you're low on, along with checking your tires and
cleaning your
2015-06-09 13:48 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
While I agree that fueling only is minimum service and not full
service, around here (Europe) minimum service is always cheaper than
self because there is someone who does work for you, while in self you
will do it and nobody
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:53 AM, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote:
On Jun 9, 2015, at 8:07 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Everything else being the same (taxes, base fuel price, etc), minimum
service is always about 10-15 cents *cheaper*
The idea that a human costs less than a credit
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2015-06-09 13:48 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
While I agree that fueling only is minimum service and not full
service, around here (Europe) minimum service is always cheaper than
self
On Tue Jun 9 13:23:05 2015 GMT+0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2015-06-09 13:48 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
While I agree that fueling only is minimum service and not full
service, around here (Europe) minimum service is always cheaper than
self because there is
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 13:49 -0400, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
I would like to propose that the tag full_service=yes be used to tag
gas stations that are full serve (i.e. an attendant pumps gas, like
all gas stations in New Jersey and Oregon).
The tag self_service=yes is already used for gas
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