Re: Why do they keep calling it "unleaded"?

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From: ameijers
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:18

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"Bob Ward" <bobward@email.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:55:16 -0400, "JohnH" <johnharlow@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >> That obviously causes problems for a minute minority of gas stations,
> >> but it hardly precludes the prices from rising, now, does it?
> >
> >Not much of a problem really; they just sell per the 1/2 gallon.
> >
> As the cite mentionsed, the law in most areas requires the posted
> price as delivered (in the US) be the price per gallon.
Same song, different decade. We went through all this when it went to above
a buck a gallon back in the seventies. Many stations went to half-gallon
pricing until the pump companies could ramp up on the retrofit kits and/or
replacement pumps. Digital pumps did not become real common for at least
another decade.

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