This was fun and educational! Weighing and evaporation were most conclusive.
Smell worked, sort of. Only once the weather turned warm enough and the expired petrol smell is not nearly as obvious as fresh petrol. Not the best method.
Burn test was surprisingly useless, all samples burnt about the same with similar amounts of soot. Old petrol is only very slightly easier to ignite.
Evaporate if you have time or unit weight if not.
How to tell if the mystery jerrycan in the garage is full of petrol or diesel: Spill some on yourself, then sit in the living room and wait.
It will not take long for the answer. "You smell like diesel" in this case. Problem solved 
Day 14 cont 
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“The Coalition’s pledge to scrap fines for carmakers that exceed emissions caps imposed by #Labor has raised concerns about new barriers to the influx of cheap #EV models and entrenching #petrol #guzzlers that cost more to run.”
“We want cleaner, cheaper cars on Australian roads as we head towards net zero by 2050, but forcing unfair penalties on carmakers and consumers is not the answer,” — #PeterDutton
Remember tradie Utes under threat? (cf BYD electric Ute 4WD) Also note the target date, 2050.
#AusPol / #Liberal / #energy / #emissions / #ClimateEmergency <https://smh.com.au/politics/federal/copied-from-america-dutton-launches-election-fight-over-evs-20250402-p5loib.html>
“Keir Starmer just exempted posh people’s cars from the EV mandate”
by James Wright in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“The UK government has reviewed the rules for its petrol and diesel vehicle sale ban and decided that posh cars will be exempt”
#Press #Labour #Starmer #ToryContinuityParty #EV #Mandate #Petrol #Diesel #PhaseOut #2030 #LabourFriendsOfBigOil
2 #Fiat 500 - 2009 #petrol and 2023 #electric - to be fair, the #EV version hasn't grown that much in size considering the space required for the #batteries
"Rules on #UK #car firms relaxed ahead of 2030 #petrol vehicles ban - BBC News"
One huge thing that government must do to get more people buying #EVs is to get more charging points installed. That includes on-street chargers outside homes with no driveways, and many more public charging places
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3xe7ppmn2o
Very interesting.
> he and another protester used a glass-break hammer and orange paint to damage 16 pump screens at an Esso petrol station
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> Dr Hart has been both acquitted and convicted multiple times for nonviolent direct action linked to the climate crisis
I would be curious to know more about his previous convictions, and whether or not (and if so, how) they influenced sentencing by the judge, and the decision by the GMC to suspend him for 12 months.
I hope he took advice from his medical defence union or similar before this particular act.
I can think of many, many ways he could potentially act that would be wildly more sustainable (forgive my use of the word; I mean merely that they might avoid his being imprisoned), and fantastically more damaging to oil extraction, than his chosen course of action. I lament that no one provided him with more constructive discussion before he embarked on these particular acts.
Probably old petrol in one of my bikes: it wouldn't start, as if there wasn't any spark at all. I hardly rode it last year, so I changed the petrol for new, and the engine started at once.
That was #satisfying!
I'm more intrigued as to why the middle aged lady drives from #Leigh on Sea to #Braintree just to get #petrol - she would use more fuel than she saves doing this and would have to sit in #A12 traffic during busy times (maybe she has friends or family there?)
Also she's too young to have been driving around the time when #attendedservice was commonplace (it had already stopped in most areas by the 1970s)
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-petrol-station-thats-cheap-10004700
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Using #ai means the use of massive amounts of #resources
In the current situation of #climatechange the use of so-called ai is like extinguishing a #wildfire with #petrol
Every time you use an ai-tool you are burning a bit of our future
How Energy Remains An Instrument Of Geopolitics – From Cold War Era Till Today: Arvind Tiku Explains At ET Now GBS 2025 https://www.byteseu.com/750072/ #ArvindTiku #ArvindTikuAtGBS2025 #BusinessNewsTimesNow #ColdWar #Delhi #Diesel #ETNOWGlobalBusinessSummit2025 #Geopolitics #GlobalBusinessSummit #petrol #RussiaUkraineConflict #RussianOil #TimesNow
https://www.evshift.com/319202/ultimate-capability-electrified-performance-the-all-new-ford-ranger-phev/ Ultimate Capability & Electrified Performance: The All-New Ford Ranger PHEV #2025 #Adventure #ALLNEW #Badass #Battery #Best #BestOfBothWorlds #BlueOval #capability #ELECTRIC #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #Electrified #EV #ford #FordEurope #FordMotorCompany #Hybrid #Iconic #Legend #OffRoad #offroad #Performance #petrol #phev #PickUp #Pickup #PlugIn #PlugIn #power #ranger #tech #Top #ultimate #vehicle #ZeroEmissions
#pollution #globalwarming #greenenergy #power #fossilfuels #bp #petrol #earth #petroleum #business #savetheplanet
Which really illustrates what the problem actually is, and why global warming will become increasingly severe.
Profits will always take priority over saving the planet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30d4ernzqjo
Ever roll up to a gas/petrol station to fill up... in a tank?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gnSj2SVsULE
(it's not just anyone doing this, either. It's strongman, Eddie Hall.)
#Norway has inched closer to getting rid of #petrol and #diesel-powered car sales altogether, with the latest data revealing close to 90 per cent of new vehicle sales in the country were electric. #ev #electricvehicles
“#Nissan and #Honda face increased pressure to compete in the #EV market, with sales decreasing across China and the U.S. as #Tesla and Chinese automaker #BYD have rapidly expanded their production and sales growth, Nikkei reported.”
The fallout from not investing in electric vehicles.
#cars / #manufacturing / #petrol #petroleum / #japan <https://forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/12/17/honda-and-nissan-in-merger-talks-amid-efforts-to-boost-ev-offerings-report-says/>
I even watched the traffic camera feeds and could clearly see the tractors (they were in lane 2 presumably so as not to delay lorries going to the docks, but that route is so #congested anyway with general #traffic that any such road-based #protest has little effect (much the same happened when the #motoring lobby tried to have a "go slow" protest on #A12 highway in #Essex in 2022 year to protest against high #petrol and #diesel prices)
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