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2005-11-11 Europe

Paris: Authorities ban sale of gasoline/petrol in containers

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Brilliant, Holmes! How do you do it? The yoots will never think of siphoning!"

Posted by Dr. Watson 2005-11-11 01:54|| 2005-11-11 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I remembers the bad olde days in the South when the same edict came down.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-11 07:48|| 2005-11-11 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 #2: I remembers the bad olde days in the South when the same edict came down.

Still the law, just widely ignored.
As an aside that's why the Gas Cans are thick plastic now. No more glass gallon jugs or tin cans, they break too easily.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-11-11 08:32|| 2005-11-11 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 My peanut butter is in a plastic jar too. So is bleach, laundry detergent, windex. The list goes on for ever and has nothing to do with gas. I suspect OSHA, EPA, and CPSC make the regs on gas cans. Including that worthless new spout.

Posted by Theth Omereling3544 2005-11-11 08:54|| 2005-11-11 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 TH: don't know how old you are but there was no such thing as plastic gas cans when the ban was put in place.

During the Newark riots in the '60s the use of glass containers for gas was forbidden, gee, riots - glass with gas, do I see a pattern here?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-11-11 09:01|| 2005-11-11 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll say I well remember the '50's and I sure don't remember anybody dumb enough to put gas in a bottle. We always used a can. But the law is stupid. No cans would make it pretty tough to mow a lawn.

Posted by Theth Omereling3544 2005-11-11 09:27|| 2005-11-11 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 TO3544, I remember the 50s and early 60's when, at least in the boonies of Vt it wasn't unusual to have gas in a gallon glass jug, usually with a rag as a stopper. Saw some neighbors in suburban NJ do the same thing.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-11-11 10:01|| 2005-11-11 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't think the edict was for glass containers... it was for all portable containers. Anything that would allow easy portablity/pourability into a breakable container.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-11 12:25|| 2005-11-11 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Including that worthless new spout.

No kidding! I hate the damn new "safety spout" or "spilless spout." It sucks.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-11-11 13:12|| 2005-11-11 13:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Few Parisians have lawns and the ones that do have servants to mow them. I suspect they'll find ways around the inconvenience.

Posted by too true 2005-11-11 13:16|| 2005-11-11 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 It took them, what, three weeks to figure this out?

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-11 13:22|| 2005-11-11 13:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Mowing of lawns in Paris in November is usually not required.

Posted by john">john 2005-11-11 20:22|| 2005-11-11 20:22|| Front Page Top

#13 It took them, what, three weeks to figure this out?

File under: "A Day Late and a Dollar Short"

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-11 23:19|| 2005-11-11 23:19|| Front Page Top

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