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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.

#Fuel#Diesel#Petrol
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Day 14 cont 🔋⚡🛢️🔥 🚘🚚🚛🚚

“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 <smh.com.au/politics/federal/co>

The Sydney Morning Herald · ‘Copied from America’: Dutton launches election fight over EVsBy Mike Foley

"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
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3xe7

Engineer assembles car doors in a car factory. She has brown hair tied into a ponytail and is wearing black top and jeans.
BBC NewsRules on UK car firms relaxed ahead of 2030 petrol vehicles banThe prime minister says the measures are designed to aid the UK motor industry, which has been hit by Trump's tariffs.
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@mikegalsworthy

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.

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)

#Essex #Transport #driving

essexlive.news/news/essex-news

Essex Live · Essex petrol station that's so cheap drivers come from 30 miles away to fill upQueues form outside the station and staff even help customers fill up their cars