• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Do we know WHEN they went out of business? Because 2007, it wasn’t uncommon to see gas at even $5.10 per gallon.

    Also, on the day after 9/11, in New York, some gas stations went from the (at the time) common gas prices of $1.15 and made it as high as $5.00 per gallon. Then, the next day, president Bush had made that practice illegal.

    So, if they happened to go out of business on 9/12/01, or anytime around 2007, this price would have been seen as low.

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      2 months ago

      This sign gets flipped around by vandals pretty regularly. Right now, it says all 7s.

      Edit: Just drove past it, it’s back to 420

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        You haven’t been to North Augusta where, during the freeze of 2013/2014 many stations jacked up prices well-beyond reasonable and are now, no longer in business.

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    2 months ago

    They ran out of snacks. No one knows why. However, everyone knows that the gasoline is sold pretty close to cost, and the snacks are the real moneymaker.

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    A closed down gas station with a price set at $4.20. Some worker had a great last day.

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    2 months ago

    I think I know where this is!! West Butler Road, Greenville, SC?

    Edit: Mauldin, not Greenville. My bad.

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    2 months ago

    that’s cents per gallon, right?

    1 gal is 4.54609 l… 420.9/4.54609≈92.58 so 92.6¢/l.

    looks at local gas station 18:49/l to dollars… 182¢/l to gallons…

    827.3¢/gal. which it was just lowered to from well above 22 sek/l, or 982¢/gal.

    man the US has cheap gas.