What are you Paying for Gasoline? Petrol Prices Around the World

[Graeme]

Happening all over ...

The one stress point I am seeing very recently is news reports of a spate of "driveoffs" (driver fills tank at self-serve pump, then leaves without paying.)

Some states (I know of Georgia and South Carolina) have a law that conviction of a drive-off carries a 6 to 12 month revocation (not just suspension) of the drivers permit along with restitution and fines. Many stations have video systems to capture the auto license plates.

GCP

 

[Sam]

Sam - I thought of that as well, but was vetoed by the wife. Besides, the traffic around Atlanta really stinks! (AJC 2004-05-18 - link expires after 5-24)

SteelWoman, one accessory I found useful the last time I had a bike (several decades ago) was a hand-operated boat horn - a can of pressurized air with a LOUD horn and a trigger - mounted in a convient location. A blast of that will move most 4-wheelers two or three lanes out of your way. As for anything bigger, well, the "law of gross tonnage" takes precedence.

Semper Fi,

Graeme,
I think Yamaha may have stole your idea for the horn. The Venture sounds like a fog horn.

 

[Sam]

Some states (I know of Georgia and South Carolina) have a law that conviction of a drive-off carries a 6 to 12 month revocation (not just suspension) of the drivers permit along with restitution and fines. Many stations have video systems to capture the auto license plates.

GCP

Oklahoma is 12 months revocation,PLUS it also carries a felony conviction.

 

[SteelWoman]

Graeme,
I think Yamaha may have stole your idea for the horn. The Venture sounds like a fog horn.

Keep your horns - I want a handlebar mounted Uzzi.

 

[Hershal]

Photon Torpedoes work better.

 

[SteelWoman]

Photon Torpedoes work better.

Granted, but they're harder to come by. I live in Alabama, guns are handed out with birth certificates.

 

[Hershal]

I grew up in AL.....and you are right.....I remember it was normal to go outside of HS during lunch and every pick-up had loaded shotguns in the rear window.

I'll have to see if Star Fleet can hook you up.....

Hershal

 

[SteelWoman]

I remember it was normal to go outside of HS during lunch and every pick-up had loaded shotguns in the rear window.

You mean pickups in the REST of the country DON'T?! Heathens...

 

[Hershal]

Well, not everyone is civilised.....

 

[little__cee]

$1.75 July 7

I paid $1.75 today (July 7) for gasoline - Northwestern PA - this is GOOD NEWS!!!