Last Updated on 22/08/2024 by Ankita
If you drive a car or a bike, then you must be visiting the petrol pump frequently. When you ask the petrol pump employee to fill petrol or diesel in your vehicle, usually he asks you to check the zero in the meter before filling the fuel and you keep your eyes on this zero and then after seeing zero 0.00, you are satisfied that the vehicle has been filled with petrol or diesel worth the full amount. But, the game is not played in the meter with zero, but at a place where if you do not look, your pocket will be picked and you will not even know. Let’s know how?
Be careful here in petrol pump machine too
This game happening at the petrol pump is actually related to the purity of the petrol-diesel put in your vehicle. By manipulating it, you can be cheated. You must have noticed that in the machines of the petrol pump, in different sections, you can see the data of how much petrol was filled, how much petrol was filled. Apart from these things, there is another screen in the machine, which shows the density of the fuel (Petrol-Diesel Density) and this meter is directly connected to the petrol or diesel put in your vehicle. In such a situation, it is very important that along with keeping an eye on zero, you also pay attention here. By taking a little caution, you can save your car earnings from getting wasted in petrol-diesel?
Your pocket can be picked as soon as you take your eyes off it
If we look at the fuel game at petrol pumps, then the fraud in this illegal business takes place at a place where the customer hardly notices. Even the employee filling petrol may not tell you to look at the section showing density. But if you keep an eye on this meter, then you can save your pocket from being picked. Because adulteration in petrol and diesel can be detected by this meter.
Density indicates the purity of fuel
As mentioned, the density meter present in the petrol pump machine shows the purity of your fuel. Through density, it can be checked whether the petrol or diesel being put in your car or bike is completely pure, that is, there is no adulteration of any kind in it. If you do not keep an eye on this, then it is possible that adulterated fuel may be put in your vehicle, this will not only waste your money, but also damage the engine of your vehicle. The special thing is that the density figures are decided by the government.
The density of petrol has been fixed from 730 to 775 kilograms per cubic meter. If we talk about diesel, then its density is fixed from 820 to 860 kilograms per cubic meter. The density of fuel being in this range means that it is of high quality.
This is how fraud can happen with the customer
Now let’s talk about how customers are cheated at petrol pumps through this density. So let us tell you that fraud is carried out by tampering with the standards set by the government for this. Density shows density. You can call the thickness of a substance its density. When a substance is prepared by mixing elements in a certain quantity, then the quality of that substance is set on that basis, even a slight variation in it means that it has been adulterated.
A little caution will prevent harm
Along with the updates in the prices of petrol and diesel, after checking the density of petrol and diesel every morning, it is updated in the meter by the petrol pump. In such a situation, if you want to avoid any kind of fraud in fuel, then while filling petrol and diesel from now on, pay attention not only to zero but also to the density and keep in mind the limits set for this.
These are the rates of petrol and diesel from Delhi to Mumbai
If we look at the latest price of petrol and diesel in metros, the price of petrol in the capital Delhi is Rs 94.72 per liter. In Mumbai it is Rs 103.44 per liter, in Kolkata it is Rs 104.95 per liter and in Chennai the price of petrol is Rs 100.85 per liter. On the other hand, if we talk about diesel price, the price of diesel in New Delhi is Rs 87.62 per liter, in Mumbai it is Rs 89.97 per liter, in Kolkata it is Rs 91.76 per liter and in Chennai the price of diesel is Rs 92.43 per liter.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)