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Petrol things

Here are two surprising things about petrol stations that you might find
useful one day.

Surprising Thing One

Under the Petrol Vapour Recovery stage II controls (PVRII), every petrol
station selling over 3.5 million litres of petrol a year has until January
1, 2010 to fit equipment to capture the fumes. This threshold has been set
high enough to ensure that smaller service stations, particularly those in
rural areas, will not face disproportionate costs that could affect their
viability, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
claims.

Here comes a really surprising statistic ... the technology will recover
around 85% of the petrol fumes that would otherwise escape into the
atmosphere: around 16,000 tonnes per year in total.

Surprising Thing Two

In 2005, across the nine European markets assessed (Belgium, Czech Republic,
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK)

44.9% of transactions at forecourts were card-based
cash payments accounted for around 42%
there is great variation between the different European countries. For
example, cards accounted for 61.2% of forecourt transactions in Belgium, but
just 18.4% in Poland.

Thought you'd like to know.

Duncan Williamson

posted by Duncan Williamson @ 8:48 PM