Confusion transfusion

I thought I would try Shell V-Power diesel. At a Shell Garage I saw a logo in red with a V-Power sign on it and filled up from the pump showing the red V sign. This was the only one on the forecourt....

Making the best of things

I recently had to stop at a motorway service station for petrol and found they only sold Total, a brand I was not familiar with. I use ordinary unleaded so looked for this. The unleaded pumps were marked...

Buyerfuel

I have recently returned from a holiday in France and found that many filling stations (especially Shell and Elf) are now selling Sans Plomb 95 - E10 fuel in place of the normal Sans Plomb 95. I believe...

Law and hoarder

I have noticed recently, that the price of petrol has been creeping up faster than diesel. In fact I have seen it in some garages, higher than diesel. Can you tell me what has changed, to erode the past...

The fuel in the hull

What is happening to the fuel prices? I heard on the wireless that there was a glut of oil and yet Petrol prices here in S.E. Kent are 103.9p a litre. What on earth can we do about this? We need our...

Long-range fuel thanks

I thought that your readers may find this interesting: I currently run a Peugeot 206 1.4 HDI turbodiesel. My motoring mainly consists of a 36-mile round-trip commuting into Dumfries each day. Until recently...

Mugger ridge

Having read you letters column in last Saturday's Telegraph about pre-paying for fuel before you fill up at fuel stations, I thought you might be interested in my experience of this. It was in 1981 in...

Gallontary

Regarding the letter about short measures from pumps. For many years I was a service engineer covering filling stations for a number of oil companies. Part of the work was testing and recalibrating meters...

Highly Pensitive

I was told recently by a bank official that if I were to present a cheque showing decimal parts of a penny, that it would be considered invalid, even bordering on illegal, as it was not, in effect, using...

Pumper cards

In British Columbia, the provincial government has passed what is called Grant's Law. A few years ago Grant DePatie was employed at a gas station and tried to stop a "gas & dash". He was trapped under...