Looks like my petrol light has just come on, or I suppose you'd say gas light in America. Would you? Anyway
Time for me to go and put some petrol in the car or gas
so I thought what I do is I would take you guys along and
Show you what a Chinese gas station or petrol station
You know how it works and what the deal [is] because it's actually very different to America
Not very different [to] South Africa, but very different to America
[we] have different kinds of petrol or gas here
I'm just going to call it petrol from now on so when I'm saying petrol, I mean gas
so we've got many different kinds of
Petrol here different Octane's
and also
It's not self-serve. I remember in America. It was self-serve everywhere you had to get out and actually pump your own petrol and
I actually quite like [that] to be honest
I thought it was quite a quite an interesting experience [in] South Africa you do get petrol attendance. We call them
Who you know will fill your car up for you? And it's the same here in China, and I'm guessing. It's [because] there's a
Vast amount of people and they all need some form of employment here, so that's another job that can be had anyway
I thought let's pull into
There's a Bp. That's a well-known brand right brit British petroleum. There's one on the way. I'm
Basically driving back from hi. Joe to [shenzhen] there is one on the way. Let's stop there
Let's put some petrol in the car, and I'll show you what the shops look like is he going to be shocked
you know
In the west when I say in the west, I mean any western country all the ones I've [been] to anyway
PetroL stations, or gas stations are kind of like a little
Bastion of hope you [know] it's the kind of place that you will go
Come on
Sorry, it's kind of places. You'll go late at night or you know you can go anytime during the day, and [there's] just this huge
Amount of choice you know you've got
everything from
you know coffee to snacks [the] food - you know like daily amenities that you need it's
Kind of like a mini supermarket really and some of them are quite fancy
I mean, I found quite a lot in America were fancy another good restaurants attached to them and
You know it's kind of like a little oasis
You know while you're driving, and you scope up at a petrol station, and you can pretty much meet all of your needs
Not so much here in China anyway
Enough yapping let's actually go, and I can show you firsthand what I'm talking about
Now what you'll find about petrol stations in Chinese. They're not very conveniently located and
I have a feeling it has something to do with the fact that cars are a fairly recent phenomenon here in China
only with in large the last sort of
15 to 20 years they've taken off so when the initial infrastructure was all being put into place
Petrol stations weren't really taken into account so it's actually quite frustrating sometimes you're looking for a petrol [station]
And you know there won't be one anywhere near where you so if you have to kind of plan your your routes around
You know finding a petrol station now here. We have
What appears to be a BP and a young bull sure yo which means I guess
Chinese petroleum hybrid which is a little interesting and you can see that they have [a] so-called express shop
[let's] talk about the Octane's quickly. You can get 92 and 95 octane down here in the south
You [can] go to some special places to get
98 anyway, you know open the petrol here for this lady and tell her what I need
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today
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Keep going on huh listen. Yeah
Okay, oh
Okay, so let's see what we can find inside the express store here
We do have some canned coffees which is nice
mmm, which Acacia a semi don't see sudhir
You know a couple of different brands of motor oils and one or two little supplemental things [tore] [up]
rice and cooking oil and
This good
Okay, so we can get to drink here
That is the grand selection of our drinks. I could do the can coffee. I think I'm gonna grab one of those
Aha, yaha get one of them
What else do we have? Oh yes of course chicken feet in a bag? This is always important
more chicken feet in a bag and
chicken in a bag and dirty sausages and
These kind of tea eggs. Which are actually pretty good. I'm not [going] [to] lie. I like those and our always
convenient instant noodles
It's pretty much it really a couple of other things here nothing really fancy
yeah, just a my jug of coffee, but you don't [ah]
[How's] Young boy alice this year?
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[Subha] [ah] no message ah ba ba qui walk okay, so you're moving [ah]
Yeah, we got our little breath mints and a couple of things here, and there some condoms. I guess those are useful ah
Yeah
[they] doing the bye and
We've actually got [some] wine here
bloody expensive
213 for some fairly Crappy wine and Rice wine rice cooking oil the
essentials that you need
But that's it that's the scope of this entire [store]. See this this is it. It's tiny. It's not you know
There's nothing fancy about it. There [are] no coffee machines. There's no. No hot water nothing like that. It's just
Straightforward, I've got some washing powder and that is
All she wrote that is a chinese petrol station, and you can expect a good majority of them to be like that very small
Anyway, let's hit the road
so guys that
100 RMB got me fifteen point nine two liters
Which is about half a tank in this car you?
[know] that's what I like about this little car
cost me about
200 RMB because you know
Petrol here in China is around about double the price [of] what it is [in] America now remember
That's why I could drive a big corvette of mine all across the country in America because yeah, you know
Petrol or gas as you guys call it in America is cheap in America it is
Double the price here in China
And it's way more expensive in [Europe] and South Africa in places like that so count yourselves lucky. [we'll] be lucky
Americans with your gas guzzlers, you know be lucky buggers
You know [I] can just sit down lit and V8 idle 24/7 for a year and it will cost you like
Ten dollars anyway
my kid
So that's it guys that's Chinese petrol stations and quite literally what you saw there is
What you're going to find you do get some bigger ones you do get smaller ones you get absolutely crap ones where there's nothing to
Buy you know where you can only just put petrol in and in the rural areas and sometimes if you're lucky
They'll sell you a bottle of water or something you do get slightly fancier ones
But I'm not going to like up your expectations when I say slightly fancier
They may have a few more choices, but it's nothing like overseas. You don't get restaurants attached to them
You don't get fancy sort of daily food counters and and all sorts of interesting cool things
it's literally bare bones, and that's probably because in China convenience stores and
Supermarkets are plentiful everywhere and usually open late and all hours of the day anyway
So that kind of replaces the need for having these
Sort of gas station or petrol station convenience store type setup
[alright] anyway. I've whoppers. I'm running up
That's sweet. I'll see you guys in the next video. Thank you for watching and as always go you know the drill
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