Just Thinking Out Loud...(Again)

Rapid HotClean

Rapid HotClean

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So this afternoon I stopped to gas my F250 at a large, multi-island filling station/center. Throughout the joint there were cars and pickups nose to nose and tail to tail in a big huge jamb up. A total Cluster F in this the (supposedly) most efficient nation on earth?

Why not make it mandatory that all future passenger cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. have to have their fuel filler doors on the same side of the vechicle - i.e. say the driver's side.

I'd bet this would save billions of $ in wasted time and even pay for Obamacare. Well, with respect to the later maybe I'm being a little overly optimistic, but probably not much!
 
Doug Rucker said:
It makes sense, therefore it will never work
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Pressure washers make noise. If the government would simply mandate that they be silent the whole world would be perfect.

We are already driving $2500 worth of metal and plastic that we have to pay $40k for because of government mandates from how the lights are designed, to $1000 airbags, black boxes, and crash testing all the way down to how much we have to pay the janitor that sweeps up at the assembly plant. While we are at it why don't we mandate that all cars look alike so they will fit in parking spots better?



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Tony Shelton said:
While we are at it why don't we mandate that all cars look alike so they will fit in parking spots better?



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Tony, have you noticed that nearly all vechicles sold here in the U.S. don't look alike, yet they are all left hand drive?

What I'm thinking about wouldn't add one dime to the cost of a vechicle because they all have to have a fuel filler door anyway. No conspiracy theory here, just common sense!
 
Rapid HotClean said:
Tony, have you noticed that nearly all vechicles sold here in the U.S. don't look alike, yet they are all left hand drive?
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Unfortunately they are starting to look alike. I saw a camry, a Taurus and a chevy something parked side by side and could barely tell the difference.

Postal trucks are right Hand drive. The McLaren F1 and 911 centro have a central driving position

I think market forces drive the placement, not mandates.

The only thing the government should be mandating is that it stop mandating things.


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Rance said:
I remember a time when I could tell the year, make and model of just about everything on the road. Not anymore! Sometimes I miss those days.
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I haven't been able to tell a civic from an accord in years.

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Costco gas stations have long enough hoses that they can reach both sides.
 
At least the manufacturers (or "manufactures" if you are a Pwna Northwest environmental chair) have been nice enough to put a little arrow next to the gas pump symbol on our dashes to tell us which side its on.

Take a look if you don't believe.

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put the filler cap in the middle of the vehicle and make everyone happy. middle front ,middle back doesn't really matter just a long as its on the middle.
 
if all the fuel filler doors were on the same side, and all the traffic went in the same direction, there would be no point in having islands at gas stations. The current system works, its the drivers that can't remember what side their fuel filler is on that screw things up.
 
Tony Shelton said:
Ted, I was just messing with you man. It is frustrating to have people pulling up all kind of ways at the pumps. I'm just glad we can still get out and pump our own gas......ooooooops! lol.
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Tony, here in Oregon it's against the law to pump your own gas and we like it that way! The oil companies tried and tried to get the law changed, but gave up on trying to do so years ago.

They claimed that with self serve the price would go down. But that's poppycock. Drive across the Columbia River into Washington State (self serve) and the price is the same.

So while I'm getting a fill up I'm usually sitting in the comfort of my vechicle whilst posting on PWI. LOL!
 
Grant said:
if all the fuel filler doors were on the same side, and all the traffic went in the same direction, there would be no point in having islands at gas stations. The current system works, its the drivers that can't remember what side their fuel filler is on that screw things up.
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Guy A's car has its filler is on the passenger side and he knows it.

Guy B's car has its filler on the driver's side and he knows it.

Guy A arrives at the station first and pulls up all the way to the forward pump - like he's supposed to do. Trouble is, Guy B arrives and for him the first pump is blocked. So Guy B has either wait for Guy A to finish or drive around the island and back in. If Guy B opts to wait he's probably sitting there with his engine running and therein wasting fuel and polluting.

It's a really stupid thing that could easily be remedied with a simple divers's side production standard.
 
For those that can't remember which side the fuel door is on, just look at the fuel gauge (some don't have this) there's a little arrow reminding you.

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