Batesmotel Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Some scumbag has sold a bunch of these as Bio Friendly Green Fuel Adapters. You know. The green nozzle at the pump. Only $99.00 to be able to use the green fuel in your regular car. Small price to pay to save the planet. He sold a bunch and deleted the website. My mechanic said a lot of people fell for it. Mostly new drivers. Make sure any new drivers in the family know about diesel fuel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I worked at a VW dealership (many decades ago) and we had a hoot because some car got towed in, because they had filled it with regular gas. That night, my girlfriend came home from the gas station and told about her horrible day, because she filled some guy's VW with regular gas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Worst I had was in Newport Beach CA when the tanker dumped diesel in the wrong tank. Two other cars and myself were filling up from that tank. Fortunately no one started their cars before the tanker driver noticed his mistake. The station had a has-mat truck come and pump out our tanks, put in a couple gallons and pump it out again until they were sure we were clean then gave us full tanks. Just took about 6 hours to get it done. I can’t imagine what it cost someone to fix all of that. Cleaning out the fuel system would have sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 When unleaded first became a thing my grandma got one of those adapters so she could use regular gas in her car and save a few cents per gallon. She was quite a character. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 55 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Some scumbag has sold a bunch of these as Bio Friendly Green Fuel Adapters. You know. The green nozzle at the pump. Only $99.00 to be able to use the green fuel in your regular car. Small price to pay to save the planet. He sold a bunch and deleted the website. My mechanic said a lot of people fell for it. Mostly new drivers. Make sure any new drivers in the family know about diesel fuel. Suckas! Jesus, that's cruel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Apparently the site was up for less than an hour and no one can trace the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: When unleaded first became a thing my grandma got one of those adapters so she could use regular gas in her car and save a few cents per gallon. She was quite a character. We owned gas stations. We saw a lot of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 On 3/12/2021 at 4:08 PM, gwalchmai said: When unleaded first became a thing my grandma got one of those adapters so she could use regular gas in her car and save a few cents per gallon. She was quite a character. A number of people punched out the small opening so the leaded nozzle would fit. Lots of grief if the vehicle had to pass any inspection down the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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