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There can't be many places in the EU where petrol garages are spaced more than 100km apart.
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Try riding across rural France on a Sunday afternoon....
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In Denmark (member of EU) you can transport maximum 10liter gasolin(in a car) and only in approved containers marked: "for gasolin only"
But you could camouflage it. Put the can in a pannier or in a throwover bag, BUT I didn't tell you to do so, when you come back after crashing and your a... was set on fire ;o))
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Try riding across rural France on a Sunday afternoon....
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Very true, I prefer the little roads, but when pressed for time will use motorways because you can guarantee to find fuel there. Unless there is a strike
For this reason I often carry 6 litres in a 5 litre can in one of my panniers  I wish the tank was as generous, supposed to be 22 litres, but I have never managed to get more than 18 in it.
I metthe owner of this bike at lastyears diesel bike rally in Germany. He had had noproblems with carrying fuel ina plastic container. Then again, the fuel was diesel.
http://www.dieselbike.net/farymann.htm
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Nope - well I'm not 100% certain on this, but as it's not legal to drive round with 5litres of fuel in your car in an approved can I can't see it being Ok on a bike. I will check to be 100% if you'd like though.
But even in rural France you're not too far from a town where you can find a 24hr pump you stuff your card in. Or a bar-tabac with some rusty old pumps outside where the scooters fill up. Or even a bar-tabac where you go in and ask and someone takes you round to the 24hr pump and fills up for you and you give them cash because you find your card doesn't work.
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Gas in Europe
On a Sunday, getting fuel in some parts of the Netherlands and Belgium may also be a problem. There are some gasstations opened but they are mostly unmanned and work with a local kind of credit card only and don't accept VISA or MasterCard.
Last year, on a Sundaytrip in Belgium, the tank of my GoldWing was almost empty before I could find a gasstation that would accept my creditcard. ( http://192.168.199.10/new4all/trips/ard07/index.shtml)
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I've personally never had a problem using my Barclays Visa Connect Debit Card in any unmanned petrol station in France, Belgium or the Netherlands. Not sure if that was because I was using a debit card as opposed to a credit card though...
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Since my cards have gone over to chip and pin, they have worked wherever I have tried them, before that they never did.
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