Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Well worth paying an extra few pence over Asda and Texaco then...
I have used Asda twice since it opened. Both times the car stunk of petrol until I filled up again elsewhere. Why it happened I don't know but I haven't used the place since.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I have used Asda twice since it opened. Both times the car stunk of petrol until I filled up again elsewhere. Why it happened I don't know but I haven't used the place since.
Never used Asda. Mostly I fill up with electrons. When not doing so it's invariably 99ron and Asda don't sell that.
 
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gilesjuk

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All fuels confirm to British and EU standards no matter where you get it from. Okay, contamination can happen but it is rare.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
All fuels confirm to British and EU standards no matter where you get it from. Okay, contamination can happen but it is rare.
I used to have an involvement with an aircraft hydraulic fluid. For years, the only source was a refinery in Germany. The supplier then created an alternative source at a UK refinery. Both fluids were accredited to exactly the same standards, but the new supply was terrible stuff, not really usable. They wouldn't accept that there was any difference. They eventually accepted that we could determine the source by a simple test*, and committed to supplying us only from the German refinery.

* The test involved hanging a nail from the packing department in a coffee jar of each oil - the nail in the UK oil would be rusty the next morning.
 

gilesjuk

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But confused about this. Was that aimed at me because I talked about 99ron or just a general point?

Just pointing out that the fuels from each station are broadly the same, it often comes from the same refinery. Each fuel seller doesn't have their own refinery. It's just the old branding trick again.
 

gilesjuk

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I used to have an involvement with an aircraft hydraulic fluid. For years, the only source was a refinery in Germany. The supplier then created an alternative source at a UK refinery. Both fluids were accredited to exactly the same standards, but the new supply was terrible stuff, not really usable. They wouldn't accept that there was any difference. They eventually accepted that we could determine the source by a simple test*, and committed to supplying us only from the German refinery.

* The test involved hanging a nail from the packing department in a coffee jar of each oil - the nail in the UK oil would be rusty the next morning.

It does tend to absorb water. Sounds more like an issue of storage or old stock.
 

BobClay

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Lots of little nasties get performed by oil companies. Some decades ago I was sailing on a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier, i.e. a supertanker.) We were bringing in 260,000 tonnes of crude from the Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope (too big for Suez.) As we came up the West African coast in September, we were ordered into a Senegal anchorage and told to wait for a month then proceed.
Why ?
At more than 7 barrels to the tonne, the normal winter increase of a few dollars per barrel still left a healthy extra profit, more than enough to cover incidental expenses such as crew wages, a bit of generator fuel and anchorage fees.
Oil companies write their own rules.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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Lots of little nasties get performed by oil companies. Some decades ago I was sailing on a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier, i.e. a supertanker.) We were bringing in 260,000 tonnes of crude from the Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope (too big for Suez.) As we came up the West African coast in September, we were ordered into a Senegal anchorage and told to wait for a month then proceed.
Why ?
At more than 7 barrels to the tonne, the normal winter increase of a few dollars per barrel still left a healthy extra profit, more than enough to cover incidental expenses such as crew wages, a bit of generator fuel and anchorage fees.
Oil companies write their own rules.
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You have sailor hands !! I'd wager those hands.....
 

ben0239

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Good news. Hopes it something different to what we already have.

A nice green restaurant would be nice excellent.
 
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