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How many litres will I need to buy to become a millionaire?

Whereas I don't like paying over the odds for something, I regret I cannot get excited over saving 2p on a tank of petrol. I prefer rounding up to the nearest litre to get max loyalty points - Nectar Shell Drivers' Club, or nearest £1 (Tesco Clubcard)

peteb74

I just tend to put a regular value in (normally around the £65 mark) irrespective of where I go. However, when we get a fuel voucher, we'll go to that supermarket to do our shop. So I guess the marketing works!! Going to get some toilet roll and cereal in Tesco tomorrow to get the vouchers to fill up with before going on our holiday!

psychic_teabag

RocketSteve wrote: »

So if you buy one litre of fuel, you'll spend £1.31.9 (say)
but we all know you can't spend 0.9p so the fuel station has to round that up to £1.32

Seems easy enough... just buy 1.0045 litres, which is worth 132.49355p, and they'll have to round down, and you've ripped them off by almost 0.5p

That's assuming they round to nearest penny - what if they always round up ? I'd probably play safe and buy 1.000758 litres and just settle for 132.0p-worth of fuel.

geordiepaul2001

Just bought £30 of cereal at Tesco and I am waiting for my fuel tank to run a bit lower before using my coupons.
Does anyone know if I am able to take a small jerrycan with me to fill up, as my car only holds 40/45 litres.

Paul

John_Pierpoint

In theory no - but I have done it.

Tell them it is for the lawn mower.

T1Cybernetic

geordiepaul2001 wrote: »

Just bought £30 of cereal at Tesco and I am waiting for my fuel tank to run a bit lower before using my coupons.
Does anyone know if I am able to take a small jerrycan with me to fill up, as my car only holds 40/45 litres.

Paul

I put £20/30 diesel in the car and £20/30 diesel in a big jerrycan and they never say anything to me

I-LOV-MONEY

Unless they are watching what you are filling, how will they know? Obviously don't put the nozzle back into the holder between filling the car and then the jerry-can.

John_Pierpoint

T1Cybernetic wrote: »

I put £20/30 diesel in the car and £20/30 diesel in a big jerrycan and they never say anything to me

The "jobsworth" notices I have seen round here say "don't do it".

I think logically they might be a whole lot more twitchy about petrol because it is a whole lot more dangerous than diesel.

The DIY approach to filling the motor came in during the early 1960's and I have a fond visual memory of my dad, a nicotine addict. There he is, in full flow but with the "gasper" hanging from the corner of his mouth, desperately gesticulating for someone to remove the glowing cigarette.

Geoffrey_Coan

T1Cybernetic wrote: »

I put £20/30 diesel in the car and £20/30 diesel in a big jerrycan and they never say anything to me

I have heard that under the "storage of petroleum spirits" regulations (enforced by the local council) you're only allowed to store a maximum of 5 litres in a plastic fuel can and 10 litres in a metal can.
You will see signs to this effect at many of the petrol pumps, especially those run by the supermarkets.

I fly a Microlight aircraft which runs on unleaded fuel. It's kind of difficult landing the aircraft on the forecourt and filling up direct from the pumps (:rotfl:) so the only option is to use a jerry can.
In fact my aircraft takes 55 litres of fuel fully loaded so it requires a number of jerry cans to fill up.

Over the years I've generally been OK in filling up the fuel can but on a couple of occasions I have been told by the petrol station that they won't let me fill up the 20L cans. From memory I think Sainsbury's seem to be hottest on telling you that you can't fill up a jerry can, and conversely I can't remember Tesco ever telling me off when I also filled up a jerry can to save on the 5p a litre offer.

What I now do is:
- park at the pump furthest away from the kiosk
- ensure that my car is between the kiosk and the pump so they can't see me physically filling the can
- put the fuel can on the back seat foot well so I can easily open the back door and put the can on the ground (one time I was refueling the can and looking for something in the boot of my car and the Sainsburys attendant turned off the fuel flow because they couldn't see what I might be getting out of the car boot and thought it might be an unapproved can)
- fill the cans up first, then the car, and try to stand so that it looks like I'm always filling up the car

I know this may not be strictly legal but how else am I to fill up my aircraft? The same principles I have found work fine when taking advantage of the money off fuel vouchers. I always try to fill up a jerry can to maximise my savings.

I-LOV-MONEY

My tax disc is due to be renewed at the end of the month. With the renewal form they enclosed a leaflet about fuel saving tips. One of these was 'don't coast downhill or towards lights in neutral as this uses more fuel' Is this correct? I would have thought being in gear means you are pushing the engine and therefore using the fuel. Coasting the engine is not engaged and presumably using less fuel.

Can someone please confirm this one way or other.

Thanks.