Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: tapatio

How are you supposed to buy a gallon for your lawn mower, or if you have to walk to a station because you’re out of gas?


8 posted on 09/18/2012 9:40:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Albion Wilde

How are you supposed to buy a gallon for your lawn mower, or if you have to walk to a station because you’re out of gas?


His Highness says “thats your problem.”


12 posted on 09/18/2012 9:44:39 AM PDT by chessplayer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Albion Wilde

“...if you have to walk to a station because you’re out...”

Then lets convert this to lbs. Gasoline weighs about seven pounds per gallon. So four gallons is 28 pounds. Yes, just lug that 28 to 30 lbs. up the road or home for your lawn mower.


20 posted on 09/18/2012 9:46:15 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Albion Wilde

“How are you supposed to buy a gallon for your lawn mower, or if you have to walk to a station because you’re out of gas?”

That’s simple.

You simply buy the commonly available E10 fuel and you can buy as little as you need.


29 posted on 09/18/2012 9:48:57 AM PDT by Uncle Slayton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Albion Wilde

Once gasoline hits $40 a gallon, it won’t be a problem...............................


32 posted on 09/18/2012 9:51:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Albion Wilde
How are you supposed to buy a gallon for your lawn mower, or if you have to walk to a station because you’re out of gas?

The purpose of this ruling is supposedly to prevent people from pumping gas with ethanol into small engines, motorcycles, scooters, etc. because the ethanol can harm those engines.

The reasoning is that these machines have tanks with a capacity of less than 4 gallons, so this law will force people to fuel them at non-ethanol gas pumps which are not subject to the 4 gallon minimum requirement.

But, like other bright government ideas thought up by bureaucrats sitting in cubicle farms, they never seem to see the unintended consequences.

Example: The bureaucrats seem to think that gas stations offer both types of gasoline in pumps side by side. But in my area there are no longer any regular gas stations selling pure gas without ethanol. Supposedly the pure gas is available at marinas, airports, etc. but what help is that to the average driver or homeowner? Or the guy who ran out of gas and only has a two gallon gas can?


40 posted on 09/18/2012 9:56:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson