BP closing down another bowser.
I hadn't realised that was the situation CFI and I certainly wouldn't want the refuellers to suffer. 
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I think Angel Flight have an arrangment with Mobil - none of that around these parts. One of our aircraft did one a few months back, Air BP the only fuel avaialble, so as I recall the pilot paid for all the fuel.
I did a charter in a single a few years back from Meeka to Forrest. Leonora was our only option without a diversion to Kalgoorlie to make the journey.
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And the Saga continues
Just for interest sake, I thnk Wiz of Oz might be right. Once again, I heard from my reliable source that there will be an Avgas bowser in LEO by the end of next month. Is BP doing a backflip, Shell coming to the party, or another source. Only time will tell. Rest assured, that all is not lost.
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Still working on it. hoping that something happens very soon. had lots of phone calls asking if fuel is available and have heard of trips being cancelled because they couldn't do it without the fuel at leo. I have been away and am not sure, but the fuel was meant to be stopped as of yesterday. I'll check in the morning.
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News is, No more AVGAS at YLEO. Its all JET A1 at the moment. had a swarm of phone calls from passing traffic asking if they can get fuel anywhere local.
seems they haven't sold a drop of jet fuel either.
Won't be long before the RPT crew start it though I bet. I will be making this a quite widely known thing using the promised media, count on it.
Looks like I'm going into the fuel business. Shame I have to buy it from these wankers.
seems they haven't sold a drop of jet fuel either.
Won't be long before the RPT crew start it though I bet. I will be making this a quite widely known thing using the promised media, count on it.
Looks like I'm going into the fuel business. Shame I have to buy it from these wankers.
Silly Old Git
What was tin saying about Opal fuel being money down the toilet?
they all getting the government subsadised OPAL fuel for the communities now.
Yes indeedy ...there was no problems funding Opal for what??? To 70 ? , 80 ? , 200 ? morons walking around with a coke tin full of petrol hung around their worthless necks?
Another $10 million or so down the gurgler (initial outlay)
And in the next few months see what you will be able to get for a litre of NON Opal fuel in these communities.
Yes indeedy ...there was no problems funding Opal for what??? To 70 ? , 80 ? , 200 ? morons walking around with a coke tin full of petrol hung around their worthless necks?
Another $10 million or so down the gurgler (initial outlay)
And in the next few months see what you will be able to get for a litre of NON Opal fuel in these communities.
Blacks find ways to get high
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
May 17, 2006
PETROL sniffers in remote Aboriginal communities are getting high by combining Opal fuel with window cleaning liquid or steeping it in polystyrene cups until it releases vapours.
A federal parliamentary inquiry heard yesterday that addicts were also placing paint in wine cask bladders and adding aerosol fragrance spray in their search for a replacement inhalant to petrol.
The disturbing evidence came from Dennis Colson, a senior elder at the front line of treating the petrol-sniffing epidemic ravaging South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkantjatjara Lands. "They are finding ways of getting around the Opal," Mr Colson told the Senate inquiry into petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal communities.
Opal fuel, which lacks the aromatics that give sniffers their high, has been distributed across 52 Central Australian communities since it was introduced in February last year. The fuel is used in Aboriginal-controlled communities on the APY Lands, and is available from nearby roadhouses.
Mr Colson told The Australian he had carried out his own tests after learning of the new practice from petrol sniffers, confirming that after he left Opal in a cup for 30 minutes, fumes were released.
Some shops in his community of Turkey Bore, 14 hours drive north of Adelaide, had stopped selling cups and window cleaner as a result, Mr Colson said.
More than 170 of the 3000 Aborigines living on the Pitjantjatjara lands are petrol sniffers, according to the latest local health survey.
Although news of the Opal practices had reached the South Australian Government, federal senators said they were unaware Opal could be made sniffable.
"We have heard about paints and glue but not these uses," said Australian Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett.
A spokesman for BP, which produces and distributes Opal, said the company carried out tests last year after it learned sniffers had added window cleaner, sugar or bread to the fuel in an effort to get high. They did not release details, fearing it would encourage substance abuse.
"Our tests have revealed that if people are using some type of material and dip it in Opal, what they are sniffing is that material, not the fuel," the spokesman said. "They are not changing the composition of the fuel to allow it to be sniffed."
A senior South Australian public servant, Peter Kay, dismissed the claims of new methods as "nonsense" at the inquiry. It is understood those who work with brain-damaged sniffers believe they have mistaken the smell of the fumes
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...93-601,00.html
