Comment Re:My personal favorite beer glass (Score 1) 115
But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
They are acceptable on carnival day and in the mosh pit.
But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
They are acceptable on carnival day and in the mosh pit.
and "tomato sauce".
Thats where my French fell apart in a French McDonalds. Had ordered the food perfectly and was asked what sauce for the Nuggets, my answer "Tomate". Total blank look, then I said "Ketchup". Up to then had never occured to me that Tomato Sauce and Ketchup are not interchangable everywhere. They sell beer in McDonalds in France.
fuel theft (in the form of drive offs)
Wait, what? This is still a problem?
Just switch to a "pay before you pump" system. If it's good enough for prostitutes, it's good enough for your petrol/gas.
Or: Implement a vast database to track everyone's fill-ups using CCTV. Yeah, that's probably the proper British approach... carry on.
How does pay before you pump work in practice? With my own car I can usually work out how much fuel it will take, give or take a few litres. But I want it full, even 2 litres under is 20 miles off the range. What happens if you guess high and can't get all the fuel you have paid for into your tank, do you get a refund? I can see this being a big problem with high (rental) cars where you have never filled them before and you return them full, otherwise you get stung for a refueling fee.
Also, you are forgetting about the Chunnel
And ferries, and hovercrafts, and the UK-Irish border.
The hovercraft stopped many years ago, bumpy horrible thing they were. Cost me a set of shock absorbers they did.
It's not "business hostile", it's just unfair.
As an experienced driver with a long no claims discount I'm much less likely to have an accident than a spotty chav in his "souped up" supermini - you know, the one where the stereo cost more than the car, but with go-faster stripes and exhausts the size of cannons.
Under your proposal I'd be subsidising him even more than I already am.
I'd propose instead that we simply get people to obey the fairly sensible laws about vehicle insurance and licensing, and punish those who don't.
I totally agree, I paid my high premiums when I was a teenager. The system of earning a no claims bonus gave me an incentive to be a better driver, with the result that as a 24 year old I have earned sufficient no-claims to be able to insure an open top sports car.
Charging everyone the same through fuel would provide no incentive to be a good driver
how does that work if your parents are nondrivers
I guess you are at a disadvantage. Most people start learning to drive by watching their parents, years before they ever sit behind the wheel.
Does Germany have usable public transit?
Germany is famous for it, particilarly for puncuality.
But like anywhere else, it is at its best in the cities, if you live in the countryside you need a car.
The maximum legal size for a fuel can is 10 litres, but you rarely see them on sale. Most are 5 litres
Anyone walking is unlikely to carry a 10 litre container
If a 25 litre container were legal, when full of fuel it would be near impossible for most people to carry far without a vehicle.
How big is your lawn? Most buy at most 5 litres to last all season and pour whats left at the end into the car
I think motor trade policies might be different, but unless you're a motor trader you won't have one of those.
Motor traders will be driving on trade plates, which will be picked up by the system as valid.
This is useful - most fully-comprehensive policies give you third party cover driving any car which isn't yours as long as you have the owner's permission.
The car you are driving has to be insured by the owner.
If they use CCTV to catch uninsured cars, it must be massively ineffective, since there are 1.4 million uninsured cars still. This in a country whose total population is only about 70 million. It sounds like they just need to pick a day and set up roadblocks, impounding all uninsured cars found. Repeat until that 1.4 million is down to some less insane number.
They already know, and publish, the areas with the highest proportion of un-insured vehicles, so they could target those areas.
What's to say that they will have an override button?
There will have to be, but you can bet your life it will be logged and over use investigated.
Fuel for lawnmower, maximum 10 litres, usually sold in the spring. Thats when I fill my can up, then whats left gets poured into the car at the end of September (fuel goes stale), when the lawn is cut for the last time. But most will fill the can when they are filling the car.
Insurance error, log of details, confirmation from insurance company.
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