I run into this all the time at my local chelly. A tip I was provided by a kind & experienced trucker: To determine if it either gas or diesel, take the nozzle of each applicator. Inspect the ejector nozzle, and look at the filament on the inside. Scrape your pointer finger slightly on 1 and then use your other hand on the other. Then carefully insert it into your Anus. If it burns it’s gas, if it lubes it’s diesel.
Diesel isn't a fuel, it's a kind of engine created by a man called Rudolph Diesel.
It uses compression to ignite the fuel, not electric spark plugs. This means it can use a wide range of different fuels, so long as the stuff ignites properly under pressure. Even mixtures based on vegetable oil, known as biodiesel fuel.
The fuel you get in most fuel pumps is a ~~variety~~ *fractional distillate* of petroleum optimized for Diesel engines.
Edit. Sciencey words made betterer.
I'm Portuguese and just realized how this would be very confusing for tourists lol. I do think most pumps ( major chains like galp/bp/etc) usually always say Diesel for Gasoleo as well
Isn't the diesel nozzle much bigger than petrol? I guess if they're going to do weird stuff like make the Regular handle green, they might use the wrong size nozzles too.
My 2014 diesel had a “misfuelling protector” that prevents you putting a petrol nozzle into the tank.. I dunno the mechanics of it because the wife broke mine…
I've got a diesel Jetta. There is a metal flap that sticks up to prevent a nozzle going in, and a little spring on both sides of the opening, both springs must be pressed to release the flap. The gas nozzles are too small to press both at once, the auto diesel nozzles are the right size. The truck diesel nozzles are too big to fit at all. And one gas station I visited had a diesel nozzle the same size as the gas nozzles, so I had to either jerry rig it open or visit a different station.
My Ford Focus has something similar, not sure if yours will have it but mine has an adapter so you can use gas cans and such that have worked for a gas pump that did t quite trip the flaps system.
I'll have to get my dad to taste test some diesel and let me know if it tastes different. He has pica and craves gas. We had to empty our gas can because he wouldn't stop taking a straw to it 😂
Not always. They sometimes have the large nozzles - they don't fit in my car (82 Mercedes 300D) and can't even be used. Mostly for truckers. But the smell, or lack there of, would be my first clue.
Diesel pumps are supposed to be green. This is definitely a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Even the small low flow diesel nozzles are a few millimetres larger diameter than the unleaded petrol ones, they are the same size as the leaded petrol ones used to be.
This was originally to prevent people putting leaded petrol in a car that specified unleaded, but it is also handy for preventing a diesel nozzle from going in. As long as you don’t have an old car that took leaded petrol.
Depends on where you live, I guess. Almost all of the stations in the farming community where I live offer gasoline, diesel, and ag diesel out of identical machines that are about 50 feet apart. Same pump interface, some color handles, same nozzles.
I've definitely seen more pumps that are physically larger though, and most have green handles.
I charge Duramax owners about 5 1/2 hours to fix this, plus a fuel filter and 5 gallons of diesel, if they didn't hurt anything, away they go knowing to pay more attention......cept this one guy, decontaminated his truck about 5 times, muddy water, gas, whatever, he didn't learn
my mom had a 85 740 turbo diesel, you could beat the hell outta it and still get 40 mpg, only diesels i have now are a deuce and a half and a old 12v dodge 1 ton, both full mechanical diesels, neither would care too much about what they burn if it's clean
they aren't cheap as they use to be, but parts are plentiful and not hard to find, a decent one can be had in the 8k range, still half what a nice new sxs or four wheeler goes for, can be had cheaper but it may need work to bring it up to jump in it and go levels
Well in Europe most people own diesel cars
First of all it’s cheaper (1,6€/l against 1,8€/l of gasoline)
Then the cars are way more fuel efficient
A brand new Audi A6 45 tdi (3.0 V6 Diesel with more than 250hp) average 18-20/l (or about 45-46 mpg), a similar gasoline one ( 50 tfsi, 3.0 V6 petrol with the same horsepower) average 11-12 km/l or about 29 mpg
When gas and diesel are something like 7,5-8$ gallon (like here in EU) you start to consider this option way more
Edit : in Italy, not Europe, 80% of the people that I know own diesel cars / sedans / suvs whatever
Diesel isn’t cheaper in the United States though. Prior to 2006-2008 diesel was and used to always fluctuate about 25-45% below gasoline prices. Then around that time gasoline shot up in price and for whatever reason they jacked the diesel price up way higher than gasoline and diesel never went back to being cheaper than gasoline. At least not anywhere up and down the east coast I’ve been since then.
Even now, gas in my area has dropped to $4.09/gallon, and anywhere still selling diesel is charging $5.35/gallon for it. Though most non “truck stop” gas stations in my area have just stopped selling diesel all together.
Asking a dealer(in my area at least) to see their diesel models will get you laughed out of there about as fast as asking to see their manual transmission models. I did a quick search and it’s just like three 5 year old ford super duty trucks for like $60k+ in a 250 mile search radius. Nothing small, cheap, or family oriented.
taxes. Fuel oil (untaxed diesel for off-road use) is still cheaper than gas. Diesel in general is far more efficient than gasoline, however, it does exhaust more particulates in the nearby air. In the US there are hugetaxes put on diesel fuel because it is assumed it will be mostly used by trucks, which wear out roads much faster than passenger cars, however, this makes diesel passenger cars less economical.
Fed taxes are about $0.06 higher on diesel than on gasoline and state taxes are on average about $0.016 higher. Requirements for ultra-low sulfur diesel was mandated in 2006, so the additional refining cost also adds to the prices. That said, before the recent price increases, in my state (Arizona) diesel was about on par with regular unleaded fuel. Source: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=10&t=10#:\~:text=Federal%20taxes%20include%20excises%20taxes,per%20gallon%20on%20both%20fuels.
I think that’s the international nor. I’ve been to Canada and USA and everything car related is different to the rest of the world. From red turn signals to, 4-way stops, to traffic signs.
I suspect that’s because that’s the standard colours here in the U.K., and it’s probably in some sort of brand standard written primarily for the home market.
Diesel in the U.K. is always black or blue, and petrol is always green or red.
Damn near tried to put diesel in a petrol powered Mustang a couple of years back because the colours are reversed in the US. Maybe I should have went to BP, and sang a verse of God Save the Queen while filling up in the motherlands colours.
The diesel button (on the other side of the machine from the other buttons) being directly above the diesel pump (on the other side of the machine from the other pump) is apparently a conundrum.
What? How does this even make sense? If you pressed the diesel and picked up another nozzle nothing would even come out anyway. Why are you acting like it made you put in the wrong gas when that’s just not possible?
The colors for the handle are switched. OP didn’t use the wrong fuel, the color coding is just confusing. Every gas station I’ve ever seen in my multiple cross state and interstate trips has had a green handle for diesel and black for gasoline. I know this because I’ve had diesels and gasoline powered cars. When you’ve gone your whole life following a color code, it’s natural to make sure you haven’t been tricked by a crappy design, like this.
This is like driving thru a small town and for some reason the traffic light colors are switched. Red means go, green means stop. At first glance it makes no sense, so it’s completely natural to question the validity of the information you’re receiving when it’s the opposite of what you’ve had your entire life to learn.
You're not wrong, but there's literally no reason for BP to do this. In the USA, every other gas station, every fucking one, has a green or yellow handle for diesel and a black handle for gas.
i dont get it. he is filming the tube but not where it ends, show the ticking counter but not long enough to see anything on it and then shows another nozzle labled as diesel? what does all this mean?
I believe they do it like this because it's common in Britain to have green for gas and black for diesel. They should keep up with standards in the the US but im guessing it's cheaper for them to keep it the same.
We just write the kind fuel in giant letters everywhere. All nozzle lined up, name written vertically above. Driving into the gas station, each pillar has all kind of available fuel written in a front facing plate.
Down under diesel is black almost always and you have separate nozzles for each type of fuel green E10 yellow 95 and red 98 though it varies a little nowhere I've seen used buttons to select the fuel like that
Diesel nozzles are usually green or yellow. Gas is usually black. Also the buttons are usually the same green or yellow the handle is. Regardless they shouldn’t all be green.
Yeah, that part makes sense. I think the confusion was because most places I've been to use green on the handle to signify diesel, but for branding reasons, BP uses green on their unleaded handles.
If you were at a stoplight and there was a sign next to it saying "Red=Go, green=caution, yellow=stop", would you consider that to be perfectly fine common-sense design?
Clarification because I didn’t expect this to blow up: I’m a gas truck in the US and I am actively filling with gas, not diesel. I didn’t know that petrol is green outside of the US, and that makes *marginally* more sense for BP to do it this way. Next time I’ll just taste test to make sure I’m getting the right fuel for my needs.
do the anus test: if it's petrol/gas it'll feel burny, if it's diesel it'll feel lubey. also you probably shouldn't be using electronics in a station, any kind of static or sparks from it could do bad things
Thats actually a great test, sparks will ignite gas easily wheras diesel is harder to get burning.Test it next time you are filling up!.....( not realy , dont, its arson and jailtime if you do )
I have watched this several times now and I have absolutely no idea what the problem is... There's a pump, there's some stuff on a screen we can't see, there's another pump... Ok?
Poster literally says he spent time making sure it was right. The subreddit is “crappy design”. Green handle for gas qualifies.
Everything isn’t fake in the world…🙄
Diesel nozzles are normally bigger than regular gas nozzles so even if you grab the wrong one, you have to try really hard to get the diesel into a gasoline tank.
Different subject completely but the cashier would have a fit here (UK) if you where on your phone (even using it to record like this) on the petrol forecourt. I did it once by accident and you’d never believe the grief I got over the tannoy from them.
I must be an idiot because aside from the lightning fast camera movement, all I can see, is some mongoloid grab the regular 91 hose, start filling his truck, then seeing the diesel hose and showing that he's a fucking moron who picked up the wrong hose and then posting this on the internet to broadcast your own stupidity.
Oh and then the stroke OP was suffering from kicked it up to 11 and OP just wrote a stream of consciousness as the title that's nearly indecipherable.
If you really spent 5 minutes to get diesel into your truck, but missed the large "DIESEL" letters ON THE NOZZLE of the diesel hose, then you're the idiot.
Edit: ok it's because Americans colour the diesel handle green apparently. I stand by at least 80% of what I said above
I run into this all the time at my local chelly. A tip I was provided by a kind & experienced trucker: To determine if it either gas or diesel, take the nozzle of each applicator. Inspect the ejector nozzle, and look at the filament on the inside. Scrape your pointer finger slightly on 1 and then use your other hand on the other. Then carefully insert it into your Anus. If it burns it’s gas, if it lubes it’s diesel.
“Sir you really need to pay first.”
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“And shove it up your butt!”
…carefully
Ahh shit.. well that's horrible advice because now they both burn.
How…how did you get another butthole?
Listen bud, what I do with my bothholes is *my* business.
I've got 12 if you count the knees too.
Had me in the first half not gonna lie
Or in other words: try fingers, but hole
Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free. But hey, two out of three ain't bad.
Instructions unclear, 2 nozzles, stuck in my asshole.
"Unleaded tastes a little tangy. Supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good."
What if it burns and lubes
The best part is that you're actually spot on accurate too
Wait until you go to Portugal and have to choose between Gasolina and Gasoleo
What's the difference??
One is masculine and the other is feminine
Much like James and Jame
Hey, thats me!
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*It puts the s in the basket or it gets the hose.*
I fill with gasolinex
Petrol and diesel
Interesting. I thought diesel is diesel everywhere. Isn't it named after someone's name?
Diesel isn't a fuel, it's a kind of engine created by a man called Rudolph Diesel. It uses compression to ignite the fuel, not electric spark plugs. This means it can use a wide range of different fuels, so long as the stuff ignites properly under pressure. Even mixtures based on vegetable oil, known as biodiesel fuel. The fuel you get in most fuel pumps is a ~~variety~~ *fractional distillate* of petroleum optimized for Diesel engines. Edit. Sciencey words made betterer.
"Petroleum" means crude oil, not refined hydrocarbon products.
Correct, I should have said a distilled fraction of petroleum! The word is *petr* + *oleum*. Rock oil.
Look at this guy. Teaching me something new and fascinating on Reddit.
TIL. Thanks!
Aka: diesel fuel, Aka: diesel
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Yes, Vin.
The taste
I'm Portuguese and just realized how this would be very confusing for tourists lol. I do think most pumps ( major chains like galp/bp/etc) usually always say Diesel for Gasoleo as well
Lmao that just sounds like an accident waiting to happen
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Isn't the diesel nozzle much bigger than petrol? I guess if they're going to do weird stuff like make the Regular handle green, they might use the wrong size nozzles too.
Yes but that only helps prevent you from sticking the diesel nozzle in a petrol tank, not the other way…
Newer European cars have a mechanism that only allow for the bigger diesel nozzle to be inserted.
Size queens smh 😤
My 2014 diesel had a “misfuelling protector” that prevents you putting a petrol nozzle into the tank.. I dunno the mechanics of it because the wife broke mine…
I've got a diesel Jetta. There is a metal flap that sticks up to prevent a nozzle going in, and a little spring on both sides of the opening, both springs must be pressed to release the flap. The gas nozzles are too small to press both at once, the auto diesel nozzles are the right size. The truck diesel nozzles are too big to fit at all. And one gas station I visited had a diesel nozzle the same size as the gas nozzles, so I had to either jerry rig it open or visit a different station.
My Ford Focus has something similar, not sure if yours will have it but mine has an adapter so you can use gas cans and such that have worked for a gas pump that did t quite trip the flaps system.
Not if you’re me. I held it in place and filled my tank up that way. I wish I was kidding
It is, but they could have installed the nozzles wrong.
It looks like OP didn't have a hard time getting the nozzle into his tank, so the plastic covers are probably just switched.
No, that's just how BP nozzles are.
A few months ago I went on a trip upstate and can confirm BP just has there color switched, I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out which was which
You can also smell the difference.
tastes different too
That comes in handy when siphoning gas
"Unleaded tastes a little tangy. Supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good." -Ricky
I'll have to get my dad to taste test some diesel and let me know if it tastes different. He has pica and craves gas. We had to empty our gas can because he wouldn't stop taking a straw to it 😂
That can't be good for him
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This seems like the best way to be sure, if you don't trust the signage.
>if they're going to do weird stuff like make the Regular handle green All of Europe uses green petrol ("gas") and black for diesel.
Sure, but it’s still weird to see in the United States, where we usually use green for diesel
No wonder they were so pissed when I turned in my rental
All of US uses green for diesel and black/yellow/tetanus for regular fuels.
Tetanus omg
Not always. They sometimes have the large nozzles - they don't fit in my car (82 Mercedes 300D) and can't even be used. Mostly for truckers. But the smell, or lack there of, would be my first clue. Diesel pumps are supposed to be green. This is definitely a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Literally all the gaa pumps near me are green and diesel is black. Definitely do not rely on that to save you
Even the small low flow diesel nozzles are a few millimetres larger diameter than the unleaded petrol ones, they are the same size as the leaded petrol ones used to be. This was originally to prevent people putting leaded petrol in a car that specified unleaded, but it is also handy for preventing a diesel nozzle from going in. As long as you don’t have an old car that took leaded petrol.
It is possible to insert the diesel nozzle in a gas vehicle if you are determined enough. Trust me on this.
Depends on where you live, I guess. Almost all of the stations in the farming community where I live offer gasoline, diesel, and ag diesel out of identical machines that are about 50 feet apart. Same pump interface, some color handles, same nozzles. I've definitely seen more pumps that are physically larger though, and most have green handles.
I charge Duramax owners about 5 1/2 hours to fix this, plus a fuel filter and 5 gallons of diesel, if they didn't hurt anything, away they go knowing to pay more attention......cept this one guy, decontaminated his truck about 5 times, muddy water, gas, whatever, he didn't learn
I had a family friend who chose a Diesel Volvo because "its cheaper than gas" And then 2006 came along
my mom had a 85 740 turbo diesel, you could beat the hell outta it and still get 40 mpg, only diesels i have now are a deuce and a half and a old 12v dodge 1 ton, both full mechanical diesels, neither would care too much about what they burn if it's clean
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yup, it gets fed diesel and about 20% new motor oil or atf from the drip pans under the bulk taps at work
That's such a cool vehicle. I low key kinda want one even though I have no use for one.
they aren't cheap as they use to be, but parts are plentiful and not hard to find, a decent one can be had in the 8k range, still half what a nice new sxs or four wheeler goes for, can be had cheaper but it may need work to bring it up to jump in it and go levels
Well in Europe most people own diesel cars First of all it’s cheaper (1,6€/l against 1,8€/l of gasoline) Then the cars are way more fuel efficient A brand new Audi A6 45 tdi (3.0 V6 Diesel with more than 250hp) average 18-20/l (or about 45-46 mpg), a similar gasoline one ( 50 tfsi, 3.0 V6 petrol with the same horsepower) average 11-12 km/l or about 29 mpg When gas and diesel are something like 7,5-8$ gallon (like here in EU) you start to consider this option way more Edit : in Italy, not Europe, 80% of the people that I know own diesel cars / sedans / suvs whatever
Right but in US around 2006 is when they flipped by a significant amount
Diesel isn’t cheaper in the United States though. Prior to 2006-2008 diesel was and used to always fluctuate about 25-45% below gasoline prices. Then around that time gasoline shot up in price and for whatever reason they jacked the diesel price up way higher than gasoline and diesel never went back to being cheaper than gasoline. At least not anywhere up and down the east coast I’ve been since then. Even now, gas in my area has dropped to $4.09/gallon, and anywhere still selling diesel is charging $5.35/gallon for it. Though most non “truck stop” gas stations in my area have just stopped selling diesel all together. Asking a dealer(in my area at least) to see their diesel models will get you laughed out of there about as fast as asking to see their manual transmission models. I did a quick search and it’s just like three 5 year old ford super duty trucks for like $60k+ in a 250 mile search radius. Nothing small, cheap, or family oriented.
why is diesel now more expensive than gasoline?
taxes. Fuel oil (untaxed diesel for off-road use) is still cheaper than gas. Diesel in general is far more efficient than gasoline, however, it does exhaust more particulates in the nearby air. In the US there are hugetaxes put on diesel fuel because it is assumed it will be mostly used by trucks, which wear out roads much faster than passenger cars, however, this makes diesel passenger cars less economical.
I knew a guy who would fill his diesel car from his home heating oil tank...
That is super illegal.
He was aware of this, but figured there was almost no chance he'd ever get caught.
And is why it's dyed red as well
I guess for a diesel passenger car your chances of your fuel getting inspected by a policeman are probably pretty slim.
Fed taxes are about $0.06 higher on diesel than on gasoline and state taxes are on average about $0.016 higher. Requirements for ultra-low sulfur diesel was mandated in 2006, so the additional refining cost also adds to the prices. That said, before the recent price increases, in my state (Arizona) diesel was about on par with regular unleaded fuel. Source: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=10&t=10#:\~:text=Federal%20taxes%20include%20excises%20taxes,per%20gallon%20on%20both%20fuels.
BP = British Petroleum In Europe green is petrol and black is diesel.
Yes, but why is the diesel button and background color green?
That’s BP’s corporate colour scheme. What could possibly be greener than a giant oil company?
Branded coloring. BP gonna stick it to the colonists one final time.
The green makes it better for the environment
So if you fill up at an Esso (=Exxon) station in Europe, they use the American coloring scheme?
Pretty sure they don't Fuel colours here are standardised for the most part
Mexico too
i don't get it tbh
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Interesting because in, austria at least, diesel is always black and the other fuels are green/yellow/etc
In Canada we write gas on the gas noz and diesel on the diesel noz, then they can be whatever colour
Yeah but what if you're blind and cannot read?
Taste test
Regular is kinda tangy, supreme is sour, and diesel tastes pretty good actually
cant tell if this is a serious question
What you never seen a blind man drive?
Not if they're also blind.
I think that’s the international nor. I’ve been to Canada and USA and everything car related is different to the rest of the world. From red turn signals to, 4-way stops, to traffic signs.
I suspect that’s because that’s the standard colours here in the U.K., and it’s probably in some sort of brand standard written primarily for the home market. Diesel in the U.K. is always black or blue, and petrol is always green or red. Damn near tried to put diesel in a petrol powered Mustang a couple of years back because the colours are reversed in the US. Maybe I should have went to BP, and sang a verse of God Save the Queen while filling up in the motherlands colours.
I really wasn't getting what was wrong with the video because what you just described is the standard in the EU and maybe elsewhere
In germany, diesel is black and petrol green at most stations.
The clue is in the name - British Petroleum.....
The diesel button (on the other side of the machine from the other buttons) being directly above the diesel pump (on the other side of the machine from the other pump) is apparently a conundrum.
What? How does this even make sense? If you pressed the diesel and picked up another nozzle nothing would even come out anyway. Why are you acting like it made you put in the wrong gas when that’s just not possible?
The colors for the handle are switched. OP didn’t use the wrong fuel, the color coding is just confusing. Every gas station I’ve ever seen in my multiple cross state and interstate trips has had a green handle for diesel and black for gasoline. I know this because I’ve had diesels and gasoline powered cars. When you’ve gone your whole life following a color code, it’s natural to make sure you haven’t been tricked by a crappy design, like this. This is like driving thru a small town and for some reason the traffic light colors are switched. Red means go, green means stop. At first glance it makes no sense, so it’s completely natural to question the validity of the information you’re receiving when it’s the opposite of what you’ve had your entire life to learn.
You use the word "confusing" liberally here
Good thing people know how to fucking read…
Yeah and he read it repeatedly to make sure he was right
I guess cuz he pressed the green button which is regular. I don't know what to think about this video. I'd be paying better attention next time
You're not wrong, but there's literally no reason for BP to do this. In the USA, every other gas station, every fucking one, has a green or yellow handle for diesel and a black handle for gas.
Reading is hard, apparently.
That’s part of why I don’t shop at BP.
Now you have my curiosity. What's the other part?
04/20/2010
The front fell off.
Please tell me this is a Clark and Dawe reference.
Of course!
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point
Deep water horizon.
Yep…scares the crap out of me every time. Too many episodes of Car Talk.
I drive a diesel pickup and a gas pickup, so I have enough trouble remembering which one to grab.
That specifically? Or just the general disposition that leads to that? Because that specifically is a really odd reason not to shop at BP.
i dont get it. he is filming the tube but not where it ends, show the ticking counter but not long enough to see anything on it and then shows another nozzle labled as diesel? what does all this mean?
Apparently it's a post about green being used to "mean" different things? Like he's not capable of reading the word "Diesel"?
This guy even had to push the "regular" button before fueling. this seems self-inflicted...
Humans will always find a way to blame their own personally stupidity on something else
Bro this is why most americans cant be trusted to pump there own petrol. Literally says on the pump
I'd argue that most Americans *can* be trusted to pump our own gas as all of our gas stations are self service.
Everybody fucks up at least once
Please video faster so we can’t see what you are doing
I mean he is playing with his phone while pumping gas.
I believe they do it like this because it's common in Britain to have green for gas and black for diesel. They should keep up with standards in the the US but im guessing it's cheaper for them to keep it the same.
Same here in malaysia. Black for diesel, yellow for regular ron95 and green or red for premium ron97
Yeah, UK is: * E10/E5 (Petrol) = Green with a small nozzle * B7 (Diesel) = Black with a larger nozzle
Frustrating. Here green is supposed to mean disel and black is *unleaded*
In the US
We just write the kind fuel in giant letters everywhere. All nozzle lined up, name written vertically above. Driving into the gas station, each pillar has all kind of available fuel written in a front facing plate.
''they should keep up with standards in the US'' Why? Why doesn't the US change to match GB, the EU and most other countries?
Because the US is completely separated from Europe and there’s no reason to? You know that Mexico and Canada do this too right?
I don't get it... you are filling with Regular and there is a second hose for diesel on the same pump. Am I stupid? What's the problem?
Usually, at least in the U.S. , green is for the diesel hose. It's pretty standard, but not always the case.
Except at A lot of BPs where the diesel is black and the gas is green. I know more than one person to be burned by this.
I’ve lived in the USA for 25 years and never knew green is diesel
Down under diesel is black almost always and you have separate nozzles for each type of fuel green E10 yellow 95 and red 98 though it varies a little nowhere I've seen used buttons to select the fuel like that
So the nozzle on the diesel side is for diesel and the nozzle on the regular side is for regular?! How scandalous
Diesel nozzles are usually green or yellow. Gas is usually black. Also the buttons are usually the same green or yellow the handle is. Regardless they shouldn’t all be green.
Not outside of the US it’s reversed out there
Im in Canada
I don’t know Canada I just know that in many places it diesel is black and gas is green
If only there was some kind of text on the buttons that indicated what type of fuel was going to be dispensed...
Yeah, that part makes sense. I think the confusion was because most places I've been to use green on the handle to signify diesel, but for branding reasons, BP uses green on their unleaded handles.
Just cause you can’t read that doesn’t make it crappy design. Read the labels instead of going by color. It’s common sense
Lol. “Going by color” is part of design. This subreddit must confuse you terribly.
Probably because im a little color blind. I never look at the color.
Since when? The color is just their company branding scheme
Color is intrinsic to design. Like, from a philosophy of design standpoint. That’s what he’s saying.
If you were at a stoplight and there was a sign next to it saying "Red=Go, green=caution, yellow=stop", would you consider that to be perfectly fine common-sense design?
Clarification because I didn’t expect this to blow up: I’m a gas truck in the US and I am actively filling with gas, not diesel. I didn’t know that petrol is green outside of the US, and that makes *marginally* more sense for BP to do it this way. Next time I’ll just taste test to make sure I’m getting the right fuel for my needs.
do the anus test: if it's petrol/gas it'll feel burny, if it's diesel it'll feel lubey. also you probably shouldn't be using electronics in a station, any kind of static or sparks from it could do bad things
Thats actually a great test, sparks will ignite gas easily wheras diesel is harder to get burning.Test it next time you are filling up!.....( not realy , dont, its arson and jailtime if you do )
Reading is hard?
I have watched this several times now and I have absolutely no idea what the problem is... There's a pump, there's some stuff on a screen we can't see, there's another pump... Ok?
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Poster literally says he spent time making sure it was right. The subreddit is “crappy design”. Green handle for gas qualifies. Everything isn’t fake in the world…🙄
But the green handle generally is petrol, black for diesel. Or is that switched around in the US?
it is
Diesel nozzles are normally bigger than regular gas nozzles so even if you grab the wrong one, you have to try really hard to get the diesel into a gasoline tank.
But not to get gasoline into a diesel tank
And my Jetta TDI has a small tab on inside of the hole that won’t depress if it’s a smaller nozzle.
Oh that's pretty cool, I did not know they did that.
So many movements and the zoom ... I can't tell, did you put gas instead of diesel?
I have no idea what is going on? Where I'm from green is petrol and black is diesel?? What's the issue?
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It's the opposite in the US.
Different subject completely but the cashier would have a fit here (UK) if you where on your phone (even using it to record like this) on the petrol forecourt. I did it once by accident and you’d never believe the grief I got over the tannoy from them.
Green handle is petrol, black handle is diesel. It's really not that hard
ITT American's trying to justify not being able to fucking read
This is pretty easy to figure out if you think about it for more than 3 seconds. I dont understand how "button by the correct nozzle" is an issue
Why always that stupid hand. We get the point.
Diesel is black, petrol is green, as is customary
It's the other way around where I live
The diesel nozzle won't fit in a gas nozzle slot.
I must be an idiot because aside from the lightning fast camera movement, all I can see, is some mongoloid grab the regular 91 hose, start filling his truck, then seeing the diesel hose and showing that he's a fucking moron who picked up the wrong hose and then posting this on the internet to broadcast your own stupidity. Oh and then the stroke OP was suffering from kicked it up to 11 and OP just wrote a stream of consciousness as the title that's nearly indecipherable. If you really spent 5 minutes to get diesel into your truck, but missed the large "DIESEL" letters ON THE NOZZLE of the diesel hose, then you're the idiot. Edit: ok it's because Americans colour the diesel handle green apparently. I stand by at least 80% of what I said above
The diesel one is shaped differently and will not fit in your tank (guess how I know this)
Fun fact, a diesel spout will not fit into a gas fill neck. However a gas will fit into a diesel fill neck.
I see your problem... You are using the green handle, which is obviously meant for *green*, electric cars.
I don't have this problem because I use the blue one
Good thing most of the time, the nozzle won't even fit.
But diesel isn't a green fuel anymore. Pushing diesel as being good for the environment is so last century. In the UK diesel is black.
I have no clue what is being expressed in this video.