25 Replies to “Har”

  1. Liberalism is indeed a mental illness.
    Apparently with significant side effects on spatial coordination, logic perception and problem-solving skills.

  2. The same logic that tells us “milk and eggs come from the grocery store”. They have nothing to do with animals, farming, trucking, carbon taxes, regulations…

  3. Over the holidays, was at a function with contractors that work in the western states along with B.C.
    They stated, clearly, how shocked they were at how stupid the average American was, in their day to day work and travels.
    If you want to see similar struggles, just watch the local Costco gas pumps. The stupid is strong here too.

  4. Filled the motorhome at a station on I-84 just outside of Portland this past summer, and it was basically self-serve. The funny part was the speed of the pump. I could have walked back to Alberta, drilled a well, refined the oil, and packed it back to Oregon in jerry cans faster than that goddamn pump was filling my tank. The friggin’ mote depreciated by five hundred bucks just in the time it took to fill it with gas. There was a family in a Range Rover pulled in at the same time. When they started filling up, the youngest kid was just out of diapers. By the time they pulled out of there, she was in fuckin’ high school….

  5. I was in Wawa and a guy tried driving away with the nozzle still in his gas tank. The station attendant banged on his side window to get his attention. The driver quickly stopped and then got out in a foul mood demanding to know why the attendant had banged on his window. He went on to say he was just moving his car and fully intended to pay for his gas. I’m not sure he even realized he was about to pull the nozzle and hose right off the pump, even after the attendant pointed to the nozzle still in his tank.

  6. Yea I would agree with the Costco thing….
    Has anyone wondered WHY Costco Gas is so much cheaper than your average ESSO or Petro-Can..??
    Think ETHANOL…like 10-15% ….right.?
    If any want to disprove my point – fill up there .. say 3 tank fulls – hand calculate your mileage. Then do the same with RUG from Esso. Come back and tell me you aren’t being taken for a ride at Costco. (and note you will have to fill up more often and as such pay more TAXES to Ottawa and your Provincial “benefactors”
    There ain’t no FREE Lunch….evah.!
    As to the pics, not so sure they are all from Oregon..?? But nevertheless, whinning about having to pump your own gas..Really?? I was flabergasted that this was not only in Oregon, as in Richmond BC it’s the same..!

  7. on the bike in Oregon a couple yrs back. pulled into a state park and stopped at petrol station. the attendant said i could fill it myself. before putting the nozzle in the tank, i flipped on the pump. guess what happened? a real nice arc of petrol shot out of the nozzle onto the tarmac.
    whomever used the nozzle last left it latched on full. the attendant?

  8. In HS … I worked for Tom Terry’s EXXON station … for a starting wage of $ 1.75/hr soon RAISED to $ 1.90/hr. I was a model employee. Tom never let his employees work more than 30hr a week so he could avoid paying Minimum Wage (which was probably about $ 3.50/hr at the time). Yes, I pumped customers gasoline … although they were legally able to pump their own. For every car, I was was told to: clean their windscreen (including scrubbing all bugs) … check the oil (and sell them more if needed) … and complete their cash or credit sale. In addition, I had to keep the pumps polished and looking shiny, clean the restrooms (uggh), and at the end of the day, scrub the floor of the service bays and ensure every tool was back in its place. At closing, I had to total all receipts, and account for all the cash transactions (via mechanical adding machine … as Texas Instruments had JUST introduced the hand held calculator to the public). Then had to drop all but $100 in the floor safe. The $100 had to be precisely distributed in the cash drawer according to the prescribed denominations.
    I never expected to earn a “living wage” doing this work, that the “rich kids” in my community just wouldn’t do. In fact … 100% true story … I was FIRED by Tom Terry during my first year in Community College (I couldn’t afford a 4-year college) when Tom stumbled back to the station at 10pm from the bar across the street and “caught me” doing my Calculus homework in the office. Nevermind, that my work was 100% complete and that I hadn’t had a customer drive in since about 9:15pm. He fired me for doing my homework on “his time”.
    It’s shocking to look back to 1975 … and see it as some “ancient” era of “service stations” and actually working a STARTING job … with nary the intent of making a “career” or a “living wage” from it. My how things have changed …

  9. The bottom left picture looks staged – and the car has a flap that prevents filling that way (and awfully nice weather for this time of year. The top right happens all the time here in everywhere depending on who was in the lane before they drove up.
    Not sure what the circumstances are in the top left – never seen parking spots that close to a pump.
    Overall this looks fakey fakey.

  12. I did a lot of research before I started buying gas at Costco. My car takes premium gas and there was no way I was going to use an inferior product. Branded gasoline meets the same base standards across all brands. A company called Top Tier licenses gasoline in North America certifying that sellers meet a very specific standard. Esso and PetroCanada gas contains upto 10% ethanol as does Costco. Esso also sells a 15% blend.
    From Esso’s website:
    Our Esso branded gasoline currently contains up to 10% (Ethanol).
    https://www.esso.ca/en/ethanol
    Costco meets the same standard and is certified by Top Tier as are Esso and PetroCanada.
    I have read that Costco sources it’s gas from PetroCanada and Shell and their suppliers. Costco sells gas as a loss leader to get people into the store more often.

  13. shevee, there ain’t NO petro can no more. They were bought out by SUNOCO Canada, so Sunoco can did not have to pay royalties to Sunoco USA. I used to use 93, and couldn’t find any, till one day I saw some at a petrocan, and then googled.

  14. even on a simple topic like this you have the ability to fvck it up. Your “flaps” were not on older cars, and you can’t see what is being filled. Good lard bi, learn to just read and STFU!!!!!

  15. Obviously in top left the car left the gas station without replacing the nozzle to its holder.
    Seems this was also missed by Beelzebub. Heh.

  16. You can still buy ethanol free premium gasoline at some stations. I know at the Hughes station where I usually fill up their premium is ethanol free while the regular and mid-grade contain 10% ethanol. I found a web site that lists stations in the U.S. and Canada that still sell pure gasoline.
    https://www.pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=AB

  17. Tim, hi grade NO booze, Lo grade, 10-15 % booze, mid grade is 50% hi grade, 50% lo grade. If you are running a puffer (turbo or super charger) or hi comp, use only hi grade. I’ma gonna pull the head off my sporty car in the spring and shave the pup 40 thou, and then I’ll be stuck using only hi grade. We used to go to YYZ air port and buy 104 AV gas, for street racing:-)))

  18. TimR that’s true. The premium gas at the Costco I go to is ethanol free. It’s on the list you kindly provided. I try to get behind another car that takes premium so there’s no low grade left in the hose when I gas up. I can get premium gas for the price of regular gas at another gas station.

  19. I should also mention that Hughes gives you a 2 cents/litre discount if you show an AMA card, have a fleet discount, etc. If not, just ask them for an Orange Card which they will give you.
    I’m always annoyed at the difference in cost between regular gas and premium. Not too long ago it used to be 9 cents/litre, now it is at least 12 cents. The fixed costs and taxes are all the same but I have never found an explantion for the difference in cost. It seems to be “just because they can”. I suspect the number of vehicles requiring mid grade or premium fuel is substantially higher than it was 30 years ago but they continue to advertise the price of regular. They should all be sued for false advertising.

  21. Great video! I’m with you on the spread between regular and hi-test. Around here it’s as high as 19-cents. It’s like when they first introduced no-lead gas. It was priced higher despite the fact that lead was an additive.

  22. Unleaded gasoline requires octane upgrading which makes it higher priced than leaded gasoline. Tetraethyl lead was added to cheaper to produce lower octane distillates in order to increase the octane number.

  23. steakman, I am with Steve on this. Same gas at Costco as elsewhere…all comes form 2 or 3 refineries. We buy 90% of our gas for the Dodge truck and Journey at Costco and pleased with mileage in the Journey. Not so much the 2004 Ram. It hurts…but that’s the 14-year-old Hemi vs the gas.
    No problems at the Lethbridge Costco with pump stupid, i.e. not knowing how to handle the pump nozzles. Two things bug me (and one is to my benefit). 1) Idiots who take forever to punch in the info even tho it was the same process last week and also doing it manually instead of using their chip and tapping and 2) people who insist on ONLY getting in a pump line so the filler cap is on the same side as the pump. Lucky for those of us willing to stretch the hose over the vehicle body or truck box.
    Costco saves locals millions annually (not just Costco gas buyers) because they forced the price down all over Lethbridge where prices were once the highest in Alberta. If Costco did not sell gas here, prices would be 5 or 10 cents higher all across the city. Good on ’em.
    I asked a Costco guy about 3 years ago…in summer the Lethbridge Costco was selling over 50,000 L of #2 gasoline daily! 16 pumps and rarely is there one available immediately. Open about 10 hours a day…adds up.
    CAS
    COSTCO GEEK

  24. Take a closer look. She’s not even directing the fuel into the fuel port – the door of which is visible well below it. And judging by the mirror it’s a late model vehicle and the flap used by egr systems was in most cars before then.
    And again that’s some awfully nice weather for Oregon for January.

  25. bet you don’t even know what part of A car you are looking at. It’s the left C pillar, shot from behind. And with were she is appearing to be “poring”, I would guess a 2 door. Me thinks you are confusing what see because you forget that depth is lost with most picture taking

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