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[–] doc@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The picture is interesting. Do Aussies have pumps with separate handles for each grade? Stateside we have one handle and buttons on the console to choose.

This is the norm around the globe.
Once again, the US is the outlier and thinks it's the norm.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You have the unholy petrol cloaca???

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks for making me google cloaca, you goddamn cloaca.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

There are plenty of “one grade per handle” pumps state side as well.

[–] dracs@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Different handles is the norm as far as I know. Not sure I've ever seen one with buttons to change with a single handle.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

Here in the US my experience for the most part has been one handle for gasoline with buttons for each grade and sometimes a separate handle for diesel. I think places with one handle dispensing multiple octanes have a minimum volume (usually a couple gallons) to make sure your gas has at least the octane you selected even if there was lower octane gas left in the line.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Do Aussies have pumps with separate handles for each grade?

Yes.

Diesel (with a high flow button) is increasingly on each bowser too, so we couldn't have a selector switch.