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What's the story with gas stations in the US? Are they dying out / being replaced by something else as well?
by Roedou 9y ago
What's the story with gas stations in the US? Are they dying out / being replaced by something else as well?
- wand3r 9y agoObservationally: No. If parent was referring to less vehicles due to advances in transportation technology and pattern optimizations...I think broadcast TV dies much sooner than gas stations.
- rdiddly 9y agoThey're doing fine for now. Electric-car optimists think they'll be replaced by charging stations. Apocalyptic doomsters think they'll be replaced by a place to feed & water your horse (or by nothing at all). Both camps seem to agree petroleum fuels are a temporary thing.
- joelwilliamson 9y agoThe number of gas stations declined 25% from 1994 to 2013. I'd hardly call that doing fine. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2016/06/why_america_s_gas_stations_are_running_out_of_time.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2016/06/why...
- mgbmtl 9y agoIn big cities, I think that between higher fuel efficiency and the small margins that stations make, it's not surprising to see the smaller stations close. (Anecdotally, in my neighbourhood, a few stations closed, our tiny neighbourhood/borough of 60k people had a dozen gas stations, now down to 5)