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Nobody cares.
Seriously. Stop. And the double post. Not cool. It wasn’t even a mistake either. You fail.
You obviously care if you took the time to post.
You obviously care enough to post to the comment.
Sorry about the double comment. It didn’t post mine for awhile and I thought I did something wrong. Didn’t mean to do it. Sorry.
You can’t say it wasn’t a mistake unless you have some solid evidence or you are the double poster, mmk?
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I wonder how many of those signs only go to 9.999…
Yay a price cap of 9.99 a gallon! We’re saved!
No such luck! I saw a news story a week or so ago about a couple of long-established gas stations in Virginia that are going to have to go out of business, because their old gas pumps only go up to $3.99, and the stations don’t have enough capital to replace them with ones that register higher prices.
WOE!!!!
I heard a story of one gas station getting around that by selling gasoline by the quart.
A lot of gas stations that have been around for a while are the same way.
Like, the one at the 7-11 down the road, they have to remove all the pumps and get new ones.
This is not accurate information. With fairly inexpensive retrofits, the prices can be adjusted to go up to 9.99. Depending on the type of gasoline dispensers the stations own and the mechanical ability of the owners (or the price the service technicians charge in their area), this can be done with either new gears that go inside the the computers installed in the dispensers or with new (remanufactured) computers. The gears can be as cheap as $15/set, the computers (which compute the amount of fuel) can be up to $300/each.
The real squeeze is that the independent stations are at the mercy of their suppliers – they make just a few cents a gallon, and as prices increase, they sell less fuel.
Also, environmental laws can require the complete replacement of gas station equipment – the major oils can afford to do this, but the small Mom & Pop stations don’t have the capital to upgrade.
(I work for a petroleum equipment supplier, my husband’s a service tech at the same company.)
Gas stations make money off of inside sales not gas. The gas is just a means of getting you to the station in the hopes of you buying something like fountain pop (soda) or coffee. Both of those have extremely high profit margins.
Huh. I wonder what happens to inside sales when people stop coming around for the expensive gas.
it’s exactly like you said. my grandparents own a gas station and
because of $4 a gallon, they are beginning to struggle quite a bit.
Actually, this actually briefly happened to Germany shortly before the jump from D-Mark to Euro; some really old stations that still had analog displays were limited to displaying 1.99 DM/liter (5.95 USD/gallon)—and the rule is that you may only sell at the price that is advertised.
DId you see teh story about new bacteria that eat silage and poop oil?
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=biofuels&id=19128&a=
In case that link doesn’t work:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
When did the price go down?
We have a few stations like that here as well newleaf. A few small towns have the old fashioned ones.
Umm, those are cigarette prices not gas, notice the ‘marlboro’ logo next to the bottom one?
No, only the bottom one is a cigarette price. Notice the tiny 9 after 9.99 in the top two. This is the 9/10 of a cent we get charged despite the fact that we have no form of money that is smaller than a penny. If I were to pump one gallon of gas I could not get my 1/10 of a cent back in change. Also, where in the freaking hell are they charging ten dollars for gas?! I can haz alrunet fewl sorse? (And no, ethonol doesn’t count, it uses as much petrolium to process it that we don’t save anything)
stop complaining!
come and buy gas in here in germany!!!!
No thanks, I’m good with my $4.09/gallon. I’m not looking to get a$$-raped in Germany, too.
If we had access to a public transportation system here in the midwest like much of Europe enjoys it would make me a happy girl. Not only would it be cheaper but it would be better for the environment. With all our technological advances we as a society create things like viagra and the iphone, but we have yet to come up with a clean and inexpensive alternate fuel source.
I agree, that would awesome! The problem is that we all want the benefits without the cost. If you want good public transportation, you’ve got to get your city/regional/state/federal transportation decision-makers to choose wisely, then get out your checkbook. Expensive gas prices isn’t the worst thing–development standards that leave no choice but driving are killing us. And if only we all agreed to pay 14% sales tax, all the middle-class citizens paid 25-42% income taxes, and the people who choose to drive everywhere fund the care of roads and transportation infrastructure through gas taxes so that everyone in the country could have healthcare, go to college for free, and have access to great public transportation…that would be great! No country’s perfect, but Germany’s doin sumthin rite.
$9.999 for gas but only $9.99 for a carton of Marlboro’s? Seriously. If that’s the going price, this station owner’s on crack 24/7. Looks like a computer being re-set. They always default to all 9’s when re-booting a numeric display like these.
It’s clearly photoshopped….
The price is referring to cigarettes, I think.
Do you not even read the comments before you post? Only the bottom one is cigarettes. If the price has the 9/10 after it, it’s gas. Although I think ABNormal is probably right in that they were resetting the computer.
It’s definately Unleaded at the top, Diesel in the middle and Marlboro on the bottom.
What kind of car takes Marlboros?
Trans Am?
WIN!
LOL, or Camaro, take your pick.
Control reset for the signs….nothing more.
Obviously it was photoshopped in an efort to get us to panic and go buy gas, obviously another Bush trick (probably cooked up @fox news) to boost oil profits. Geez man, its so obvious, do I need to hit u over teh head or what? Conspiracy detection fail.
That must be a sign test. Unleaded, diesel, and Marlboros all for exactly the same price? Unlikely.
No.. It was NOT photoshopped. I know… I took the pic. It was taken a day or two before the store opened… which is why you don’t really see any of the store in the pic. I cropped it out for the humor value. My guess is they were testing the sign and put up the ridiculous amount to keep people from trying to pull in and bother them while they were finishing the store.
We’ll NEVER see $3 gas again! Oh wait…
this is so true, soon there won’t be gasoline for people to buy anymore.