As the title suggests, I was one of the few thousand dumb ass motorists who queued up for Shell’s $1 per litre offer on Saturday to the displeasure of others, especially public transport drivers. Seriously, I am not one of the many who find joy queuing for a good half hour while leaving our engine idling and wasting more fuel (and killing the environment) just to take advantage of such gimmicks. But when you fuel tank is about to be empty after procrastinating for days (my bad my bad), and your tight night activity requires long drives, I guess I don’t have much of a choice.
Of course another option is to pump elsewhere but I’d rather pump at Shell. Yes, they got me and I’m stubborn like that. Thankfully, there was a Shell station about a good 2km away from my home that does not cause much trouble to the other motorists. Hence, I decided to take that route. 20 minutes later, I departed happily with a full tank and looking forward to my night outing.
Left: Told you I was running out | Right: View of the queue at the back (see, clear road lanes, we don’t bug other motorists)
Left: View of the queue at the front | Right: Poor girl advertising for Shell under the scorching sun
Left: Nearing the station, and yes, its $1 per litre | Right: Waiting for my turn
Left: Shell engaged a number of Cisco Security folks to manage the queue | Right: My profit, it would have caused me a good $69
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Yeah at least that location do not cause jams!!! luckily the Shell at Long House did not participate..else Keith can forget about going home..haha
It is too bad that people do have sit idling for so long to get cheap gas. They need a better system where people are forced to turn off their engines and only proceed after several cars are done.
I agree that they need better regulations for long lines of stop and go traffic. They could prevent so much pollution by eliminating this kind of traffic or at least force them to not idle in between.
@LB and ATV: I feel you there man..not exactly a fan of idling engines..but heck..for $1 a litre…
@Len: You got that right man. At least Shell did use their brain a little…still..it was better managed than the last time..phew…