Petrol/diesel?

[devonwoody]

Can anyone with experience educate me with regard to getting fuel from garages on the continent.
Are the filler tubes colour coded like here in the UK.
What is the continental word for petrol?
What is the continental word for diesel?
Unleaded?
Germanic countries plus Italy and some of the Eastern european countries bordering Germany are destinations.

 

[ike]

Try googling.

 

[GEPPETTO]

Can anyone with experience educate me with regard to getting fuel from garages on the continent.
Are the filler tubes colour coded like here in the UK.
What is the continental word for petrol?
What is the continental word for diesel?
Unleaded?
Germanic countries plus Italy and some of the Eastern european countries bordering Germany are destinations.

Hi devon,
I'm glad you'll visit our country and I hope you will enjoy here..
although I have been there in 1999 I don't rememer your colors.. however we have unleaded petrol (color is green and "unleaded"is marked; we call it :"benzina verde") and diesel (I don't remember the color because I have a methane car however it's the other pump; there isn't other after the unleaded pump; we call it:"gasolio")

I hope this help you. If you have other questions don't worry to write me :wink:


Cheers
Gabriele

 

[Argee]

In France, essence (sans plomb) - petrol(lead-free) and gazole/gasoil - diesel.

Try this site as a starter.

Ray.

 

[JimNoble]

Can anyone with experience educate me with regard to getting fuel from garages on the continent.
Are the filler tubes colour coded like here in the UK.
What is the continental word for petrol?
What is the continental word for diesel?
Unleaded?
Germanic countries plus Italy and some of the Eastern european countries bordering Germany are destinations.

I suspect it's unlikely that any petrol stations will be marked up in Esperanto, so I suspect the "word" will depend on the language of the country you're visiting!

In Germany, petrol is "bleifrei" and either "benzin" (normal 95) or "super" (98 ) IIRC. Diesel is just diesel I think.

Here we go: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/phrases/german/data/petrolstation.html

Just asked my Italian co-worker and in (his bit of) Italy it's very similar. "Benzine" for normal unleaded, and diesel is still just "diesel". He wasn't sure if super is available, but if it is it'll be the more expensive one :wink:

(Guess he's from a different bit of Italy to you Geppetto! )

HTH,

Jim

 

[devonwoody]

Many thanks for all the assistance above, things seemed to have changed since I last went hitchhiking over there in the 50's.

Vests , triangles, two pairs of glasses, no booze, tolls, hope they still speak Engish.

 

[JimNoble]

Vests , triangles, two pairs of glasses, no booze, tolls, hope they still speak Engish.

Make sure you have your slide rule and pocket protector with you and you'll be fine...

Jim

 

[engineer one]

the most important thing to look out for is
the word that looks like latin for lead

i.e plumbie

otherwise always ask it does help in the long run,
paul :wink:

 

[houtslager]

if you get lost in northern Holland or northwest Germany you can always text me, and I'll bring a rescue pack of either guiness or killkenny bitter oh and a few sarnies :wink:

 

[devonwoody]

if you get lost in northern Holland or northwest Germany you can always text me, and I'll bring a rescue pack of either guiness or killkenny bitter oh and a few sarnies :wink:

Thanks, otherwise I'll bring the pack to you. (but heading south east)

 

[devonwoody]

Went down the public library yesterday and got hold of one of those travel books, (3" thick on Europe) each european country is listed and at the end there is a phrase page for each language, only problem now is pronunciation of some of those eastern ones.