• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Hold the fuck up.

    Customer A buys 10 gallons of E15.

    Customer B buys 1 gallon of E10 from the same pump.

    Customer C buys 1 gallon of E10 from the same pump and puts it in his chainsaw. If that gallon ruins Customer C’s chainsaw, it’s legally Customer B’s fault? What the fuck?

    Forcing B to buy more gas than he might want, to protect the customer after him, because of the customer that came before him, is some horseshit.

    • SoylentBlake
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      7 months ago

      Imo, the death of the chainsaw falls on customer C’s for running subpar fuel in a 2stroke to begin with (the most likely series of events: seals go, develops air leak, carb runs lean, rings bind)

      Ethanol-free fuel, 92 octane (you’ll know it’s right cuz it’s like $6/gallon- don’t buy the premixed shit in the store, find a proper station) properly mixed with oil, can run all day, never a problem.

      But that’s just my opinion

    • Mango@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Why is it bad to have rules which prevent harm to everyone?

      Nobody is forcing anyone to buy anything. You ever see a 2oz bottle of Coke?

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        7 months ago

        That doesn’t prevent harm to everyone it just allows gas stations to use a single pump and shift the liability onto consumers.

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        7 months ago

        Nobody is forcing anyone to buy anything.

        In the given example, is the gas station not forcing Customer B to purchase more gas than they may want or need? What if I have a chainsaw with a 1 gallon fuel tank? Now I need to not only buy more gas than I can use, but a container to safely store it in. (It’s also illegal to dispense gasoline to/from an unauthorized container!) Now if I use my chainsaw once or twice a year, I also get to dump out that extra gasoline because it’s gone bad by the time I need to use it again.

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          7 months ago

          Do you have an ethanol chainsaw? Maybe an ethanol weed whacker? Got some links to these small ethanol motors?

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        That’s a pretty stupid comparison. These aren’t prepackaged containers, and that’s a pretty key part of the terrible point you were trying to make.