Today's media scare story is dodgy car fuel.
I can't help but be amused at the failure of any semblence of a scientific approach to these reports. To me, there are obvious questions like:
Over what period of time are these reported failures alledged to occur?
Is the number of failures really any different than in a normal week/month?
Is there any other mechanism to cause these failures other than fuel (dodgy oxygen sensors perhaps)?
Is there a particular model of car involved?
I just looked at a map on bbc.co.uk which showed all the garages alledgedly involved - they are completely scattered all over the country. Tesco and Morrison get special mentions although there is a considerable number of 'others' involved as well. There is no acknowledgement that Tesco and Morrisons just so happen to be two of the biggest fuel retailers and therefore have quite a lot of customers who may in fact have dodgy cars.
Anyway, I'm hoping to gain from this because later this evening I will have to fill up. Normally when there's a petrol scare in the media, massive queues of scaredy cat nutters form at the pumps and the prices creep up. I'm hoping thr opposite will happen now and I'll be able to pick up some bargain fuel whilst having the Tesco forecourt to myself.
