This was an email that i got today


This is a true story, so read it carefully.

On April 24, 2008, I stopped at a Kangaroo BP gas station, located at 1325 Main Street, Cartersville, GA. My truck's gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank .I use the mid-grade, which was priced at $3.71 per gallon. When my tank is at this point, it takes somewhere around 14 gallon's to fill it up. When the pump showed 14 gallons had been pumped I began to slow it down, then to my surprise it went to 15, then 16. I even looked under my truck to see if it was being spilled. It was not. Then it showed 17 gallons had been pumped. It stopped at almost 18 gallons. This was very strange to me, since my truck has only an 18 gallon tank.

I went on my way a little confused, then on the evening news I heard a report that 1 out of 4 gas stations had calibrated their pumps to show more gas had been pumped than a person actually got.

Here is how to check a pump to see if you are getting the right amount:

Whichever grade you are using, put EXACTLY 10 GALLONS in your tank, then look at the dollar amount, if the dollar amount is not EXACTLY 10 times the price of the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps are rigged. In my case as I said the mid-grade was $3.71 9/10 per gallon, my dollar amount for 10 gallons should have been $37.19. If I had only checked the pump. It doesn't matter where you pump gas, please check the 10 gallon price.

If you do find a station that is cheating, contact the Georgia Agriculture Department, and direct your comments to Tommy Irvin, Commissioner. In other states contact proper authorities. Please don't delete this until you have sent it to all people in your address book. We need to put a stop to this outrageous cheating of customers. The gas companies are making enough profits at honest rates.

 

Nothing like using the tried and true method of my needle was here, so it should only take this amount. As accurate as the "BUTT DYNO"!!

Although a purportedly true story, the pump was found to be not faulty.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/cheating.asp

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/cheating.asp

Oh damn jx3 you beat me to it!!!!!!$%@#@%$%

 

I have also heard the opposite. In New York, many of the old pumps can only go to a maximum of $3.99 per gallon. Of course these stations are trying to change as quickly as possible.
Another interesting side effect of these outrageous prices, is that smaller mom& pop places arte quickly going out of business. This, I don't understand, if their margin stays the same, they should be making more money. In my part of NJ, the most competetive prices have been along RT 516 through Old Bridge. There are about 8 stations in a short distance, all competing for the lowest price. Three of them are now closed up, pulling the pumps & tanks out of the ground. This scares me even more, as competition keeps prices low. Our government never saw this coming when Exxon & Mobil merged? Or did they profit too much from it?

 

 

Diskullman-the smaller stations may be making the same money off of the gas, but more people are using credit cards to pay instead of cash. The stations are charged fees everytime a card is used and another side effect from that is that people are paying at the pump and not going inside to buy other stuff therefore causing them to lose more money than they make off of gas. I talked to a gas station owner regularly that just went out of business and they made maybe 5-10 cents off of every gallon sold and after credit card fees they were probably lucky to break even.

 

had that happened to me...... a faulty pump...... The pump read 19.2 i went in told the manager that my vehicle didnt hold but 14.5 the manager of the BP convience store ( which i refuse now to use) stated "You must be mistaken your car took the gas" i in turn took the owners manual in and showed him.... he said he didnt care..... the police was called they actually wrote a report any way long story short it was a faulty pump.....

 

Oh Hell, blow em up and let GOD sort it out

 

Exactly...still can't figure out why gas can be 3.81 at 1 Mobil station and 2 miles down the road another Mobil it is 3.99....there is probably a lot more involved than I'll ever understand but seems like the 3.99 guy is nothing but a thief.



Goose

 

Also, most stations make their money off the stores, not the gas. The stations aren't the ones making the majority of the money, as the company-owned stations are few and far between.