• Billiam
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    247 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.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      67 months ago

      Legally customers C fault. He needed to buy 4 gallons and fucked himself.

    • @Mango
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      -37 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?

      • @[email protected]
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        37 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.

        • @Mango
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          -37 months ago

          If you can’t see the practicality, that’s on you.

      • @papalonian
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        37 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.

        • @Mango
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          -17 months ago

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

          • Billiam
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            17 months ago

            E10 and E15 mostly aren’t ethanol. They’re 90% and 85%, respectively, gasoline, with the rest being ethanol.

      • @ripcord
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        17 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.

        • @Mango
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          17 months ago

          Ok then, try to book an attorney for 10 minutes only.