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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6571287" data-attributes="member: 2011">Do you? If so, I suspect that it does not have the same amount of fuel in it every time and that it is not a need, but a habit. Or do you need to do it sporadically, based on how much fuel you have used since the last filling and how long of a time frame that was. Although the need to fill up a tank can be periodic (e.g. someone only uses the car to go to work and has to fill it up every Monday), that's rarely the case. People do it periodically out of habit though.I was once at a city council meeting where the local law stated "this area can be used for periodic events..." and a small group of young businessmen had licensed the area from the city manager to have Sunday paintball games. The entire city council (including the mayor) mistakenly thought that the word periodic meant sporadic and were arguing that every Sunday games were not periodic. Until I spoke up from the back of the room. The city lawyer then got out a dictionary and started looking up periodic. It was so sad that our local representatives didn't know the meaning of the word that they were using to support their argument. After they found out the true meaning of the word, they changed tactics in order to get their desired result (i.e. shut down the paint ball business).People often confuse the word periodic with sporadic or even sometimes intermittent. But, they have different meanings.</blockquote>