Gasoline

Bonaire has five gas stations. These stations provide all the gasoline and diesel fuel for commercial and private use.  The airport has its own pier and storage tanks for jet fuel. All fuel is shipped in, transferred to storage tanks, put on tanker trucks and delivered to the gas stations.

When you arrive at the gas station you have to give them a credit card or pay cash before they will turn on the pump. I wish they would figure out swiping credit cards as it would speed thing up and make it easier on everyone.  There are two islands that have two dispensers each (one on each side of the island.  There is typically a line of four to five cars for each pump no matter what time of day.

Today, Monday, all the workmen were getting gasoline. This guy was filling four 55-gallon drums loaded in the back of a pickup.  He was filling them with the nozzle and was there for an hour.  Everyone in cars went to other lines.

There is no regulation, it seems, for transporting hazardous materials like gasoline on the island.  In America, the feds would have cardiac arrest and issue a million citations and fines if they saw this at a gas station. The environmentalist would scream "bloody murder". OSHA would shut everyone and everything down. But this is normal for Bonaire. 

In Bonaire, there is one line that has a service person that puts gas in the car and walks your credit card back and forth to the cashier. This is a nice service and one we haven't seen in 50 years.

We fill up twice a month. This time, we paid $44.99 US for 43 liters. Since I was driving I learned where the gas tank release button resides...something that I hadn't seen or used before. (Rick has me on lesson plans for learning how to do stuff on the island.)