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Gas stations typically had zero or near zero margins on gasoline itself and made money in the convenience stores, notably tobacco products. EVs should be a gre
by throwaway5752 4y ago
Gas stations typically had zero or near zero margins on gasoline itself and made money in the convenience stores, notably tobacco products.
EVs should be a great for their business. Level 3 / DC Fast should be too difficult for a lot of places to want to construct and maintain, should be more easy to site and permit than a gas station, should have less remediation problems, and have longer stops and high opportunities to upsell customers on food or other high margin retail goods or services.
This should be a goldmine for "filling" stations.
- cpitman 4y agoExactly, this would actually be history repeating itself. The original "gas stations" were pharmacies that added a gas pump to bring in customers, sold at a price that didn't bring in much profit but got customers in the door.
- frankfrankfrank 4y agoThat’s not at all the same. The example you provide was augmentation or expansion of their market/products. This is not that at all. At best it is a supplanting of the market with a clearly imposed and forced product and system. Those are cleverly not free choices, they aren’t even just biased through subsidies; they are actively sabotaging and commanding major shifts in society and the economy, which has never gone well when it has ever been tried under any other communist, utopian, command economy, self-righteous system of a minority of conceited rulers imposing things on people unnaturally, based on pontifications emanating from ivory towers.