Recently I visited my local Sainsburys petrol station in Grantham to fill up my jerrycan with petrol. As I was about to do this, the manager came over to me and told me I could not do this. When I asked why I was told he was not insured to allow anyone to fill up a container with more than 10 litres of fuel. I was then asked what was the capacity of my can, I told him 20 litres. When I suggest that I only put 10 litres into my Jerry can he still would not let me. The only containers he would let me use were either a 5 litre green plastic container or a 10 litre metal container both of which he could sell to me. My next move was to point out to him that since before the Second World War jerrycans have been used to hold fuel. After all, that is for what they were designed for and they are much safer than the 5 litre plastic containers he had for sale. Still he would not yield. All he did was to reiterate that Sainsbury’s insurance company would not allow it. So it would seem that a purpose designed, very safe steel container is not acceptable to the insurance company used by a major supermarket. What is the world coming to? What did I do, drove round to another garage where I was able to fill up my jerrycan.