No, you guys call it fuel, the americans call it gas and call it petrol.
All the same stuff.
Glad that you guys also score a few savings!
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No, you guys call it fuel, the americans call it gas and call it petrol.
All the same stuff.
Glad that you guys also score a few savings!
Most call it petrol here actually, never gas though. (unless referring to LPG.)
The term fuel tends to refer to all forms of the substance including diesel and some use it, me included, but in the main petrol is the most common term. I have vehicles that take petrol (unleaded) and diesel so I generally use fuel or petrol for one, and diesel for the other when referring to it. The term gas relates to LPG here, another form of fuel altogether. I guess soon we'll all be saying power.
It'd always nice to save some money wherever we can though and prices of petrol and diesel have been the lowest for well over twelve years lately. They are on the up though now. Pre-COVOD I was paying $1.65-$1.80/L for diesel but it's been as low as $0.99/L lately.
Petrol prices are also now increasing here, but the big problem is that the government takes almost 50% of the price for a liter of petrol in taxes.
So we get much less than what we pay for.
Here's an interesting story, we discovered that a new employee at a service station was filling station was filling petrol cars tanks with diesel.
A family in a new Volvo got stuck and we stopped to help them. The guy told me that they were on the way from Cape town to a place on the east coast and the car had no problems until they stopped at the service station to fill up.
We heard the rumours about diesel in petrol cars and when I opened his petrol tank's cap, all that I could smell was diesel.
Back at the petrol station they flushed his tank and gave him a free refill of petrol along with the owners apologies.
We get the same, not quite 50% but close.
Why was the guy pumping the wrong fuel? On purpose or by accident?
You have a nice way to show me this, so we are almost in the same boat.
Our National Carrier, government owned and siphoning off billions of tax payers money over the years to prop it up is finally bankrupt.
So are all of the other what they call Parastatals. Corruption and bad management has ruined them all.
Had all of the billions been pumped into infrastructure and social improvement we would not have to struggle like we do today.
The small fry get arrested and the big wigs are above the law.
A national bank was started and the municipalities were coerced to invest millions into it. The bank was recently sequestrated because all of the money is gone.
Now the municipalities cannot serve their people, as they are broke.
Such is life!
Oh, sorry, to answer your question about the diesel episode, it could have been either, but the the guy was fired!