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In modern filling stations the pump is able to mix the fuel so tanks for each individual octane are not necessary. In older filling stations with a single tank
by encoderer 11y ago
In modern filling stations the pump is able to mix the fuel so tanks for each individual octane are not necessary.
In older filling stations with a single tank, they solve this by selling "premium" to everybody, whether or not you select 87 or 92.
Gasoline is usually a loss-leader for filling stations to bring people into the store, so I suppose it's a negligible impact on margins.
- jonah 11y agoI've been wondering how much "pay-at-the-pump" card machines affect sales of incidentals. If a fraction of customers are going inside and being exposed to the snacks, how's that work out?
- jacquesm 11y agoBadly. Gas stations make a considerable portion of their profits from the store. If a station does not make enough money on the store it is one bad season away from being converted to fully automated.
- jacquesm 11y ago'Blending' is used to get you something between two octane values, not as a way to only have a single tank, in order to blend you still need two tanks (and a pump suitable to do the mixing). Source: I'm a former gas station owner.
- encoderer 11y agoYeah, I didn't meant to imply modern stations have a single tank. I can see how you can read it that way though.