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Article #11086Re: high gasoline prices was Re: ATM fees are about to rise substantially
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4l3e60$nuc@netnews.upenn.edu>, Sanjay Sinha <sanjay@ssc.sas.upenn.edu> wrote: } }e.g. a gasoline pump owner at your corner has a 12,000 gallon storage }tank and this serves them fine as their weekly sales are 10,000 }gallons and they recive a shipment every week. however, on labor }day weekend the demand goes to 15,000 gallons a week. do yuo really }expect the pump owner to install extra storage tanks to meet }one week's peak demand and still stay in business? Actually, they increase shipments during times of high demand. Though at the one I worked at, it went from once a day to twice a day (and occasionally ran the tanks dry when a shipment too late). -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com russotto@his.com "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11474a,88496eaf4440a9ba X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,88496eaf4440a9ba X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,88496eaf4440a9ba X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: f6c48,88496eaf4440a9ba X-Google-Attributes: gidf6c48,public From: russotto@wanda.phl.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) Subject: Re: high gasoline prices was Re: ATM fees are about to rise substantially Date: 1996/04/18 Message-ID: <4l61qd$87n@wanda.phl.pond.com> X-Deja-AN: 148222201 references: <4l3e60$nuc@netnews.upenn.edu> organization: Ghotinet newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,alt.consumers.experiences,dc.general