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deepakhon · 5th May 2006, 15:35

Well. This might be irrelevant to the topic, but I would like to share my experience at DG Petrol Pump near Padmanabhanagar. I first tanked up my Kinetic Honda there with IOC premium petrol. The tankfull made my wallet lighter by around 290 bucks. I have this habit of tanking up with normal fuel a couple of times and then tanking up with premium fuel. So, the next time, I tanked up with normal unleaded petrol. I had to pay around 320 bucks for that. I did not suspect anything that time, but when I had to fill up again last week, I did not have the time and inclination to stand in the long queue for the unleaded and since there was absolutely no one for the premium, I asked them to tank my kinetic with that. The surprise is that I paid around 290 for a tankful again. What does that mean when I am paying around 1.5 more for a liter of premium petrol and still end up paying around 30 bucks less for a tankful? Does it mean that the normal unleaded is adultrated a lot? This is scary because there is a huge line for the unleaded. On the other hand, I am happy that I pay less for a supposedly better fuel. Do let me know if someone shares such an experience.

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deepakhon BHPian Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 941	Well. This might be irrelevant to the topic, but I would like to share my experience at DG Petrol Pump near Padmanabhanagar. I first tanked up my Kinetic Honda there with IOC premium petrol. The tankfull made my wallet lighter by around 290 bucks. I have this habit of tanking up with normal fuel a couple of times and then tanking up with premium fuel. So, the next time, I tanked up with normal unleaded petrol. I had to pay around 320 bucks for that. I did not suspect anything that time, but when I had to fill up again last week, I did not have the time and inclination to stand in the long queue for the unleaded and since there was absolutely no one for the premium, I asked them to tank my kinetic with that. The surprise is that I paid around 290 for a tankful again. What does that mean when I am paying around 1.5 more for a liter of premium petrol and still end up paying around 30 bucks less for a tankful? Does it mean that the normal unleaded is adultrated a lot? This is scary because there is a huge line for the unleaded. On the other hand, I am happy that I pay less for a supposedly better fuel. Do let me know if someone shares such an experience. __________________ Deepak Honnalli.