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A good number of rural Oregon gas stations still follow the “park, walk in, give the cashier a $20 bill, go out and pump until the mechanical dial says “20”, th
by jakear 4y ago
A good number of rural Oregon gas stations still follow the “park, walk in, give the cashier a $20 bill, go out and pump until the mechanical dial says “20”, then drive off” honor system.
Interested to see if those ancient pumps will now be accompanied by some new fangled electric thing.
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- Scoundreller 4y agoUgh, I've experienced systems that require pre-pay, so you go in and give $20 and the pump runs at a snail's pace from $19.50 onward just to make sure you don't get $20.01
- akomtu 4y agoThat 0.01 matters to them. A few years ago most gas stations had replaced those electronic price displays to show 3 digits after comma: the subtle scam of 3.99 prices cost them a cent, which adds up, and now it costs them only 0.1 cent.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
- gnicholas 4y agoA colleague told me of a gas station that found after many years, that they had sold more gas than they had bought. Eventually they realized that it was because their tanks were filled up at night, when gas was cooler/less voluminous than when it was pumped out in the heat of the day (it was in the central valley of CA, which gets very hot).
- caf 4y agoI've long thought that fuel should be sold by mass rather than volume.