# What's in your tank? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494 "2013-03-20T22:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/1 "2013-03-20T22:04:25Z")
Gasoline, diesel, a tiger? Maybe [this](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/20/presidential-limo-breaks-down-ahead-of-obamas-arrival/) is why NJ is full-service only. :smack: > [@](#): > > Jerusalem (CNN) – The official limousine awaiting President Barack Obama’s arrival in Israel malfunctioned after its driver refueled it using gasoline rather than diesel fuel, an official said Wednesday. > > The limo failed to start, and required towing in Jerusalem at 10 a.m. local time. Obama, who landed in Tel Aviv around noon, was not in the country at the time the limo was towed. A second presidential limo was brought to transport Obama. > > “We experienced mechanical trouble with one of the cars,” Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, told a pool reporter traveling with Obama. “We don’t know the cause.” Hey Mr. Secret Service spokesman, why don’t you ask CNN, they seem to know in the first sentence, two paragraphs above your quote. :smack: In the US, I know that diesel nozzles are larger than gasoline ones so that you can’t put diesel into a gasoline engined car but you could put gasoline into a diesel-engined one. Is that also true in Israel? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/2 "2013-03-20T22:14:06Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > In the US, I know that diesel nozzles are larger than gasoline ones so that you can’t put diesel into a gasoline engined car but you could put gasoline into a diesel-engined one. Don’t know about Israel, but it’s the same here (the UK). If you have a vehicle with a diesel engine you can purchase special caps to prevent misfueling: [http://www.petrol-in-diesel.com/solo-diesel.php](http://www.petrol-in-diesel.com/solo-diesel.php) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/3 "2013-03-21T00:04:18Z")
Given the people that the Secret Service hires, I am not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/4 "2013-03-21T00:16:49Z")
He didn’t pass the smell test. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/5 "2013-03-21T00:47:01Z")
Top Gear once exhibited a device to affix to the inside of the fuel door, and when light hit it (such as upon opening the tank in preparation to gas up), it emitted a siren noise and said “THIS CAR USES DIESEL FUEL” or something like that. Or at least it did for the first 20 seconds until Jeremy got annoyed and hit it with a hammer. Then it went BZZZZKKKKKKK. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/6 "2013-03-21T03:20:09Z")
Henry Jones Sr. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-tank/653494/7 "2013-03-21T04:41:42Z")
Why am I tanked? Why the hell not?