🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: nj.wanted
Article #179

Self-Service Gas

#179
From: Jim
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:12
19 lines
1146 bytes
Re: secret speed limit (was: Witnesses to car accident)
By: tommy #0 @boole.att.com (Tommy Reingold) USEnet      
 
> $ ObWanted:  a self-serve gas station.
> That's another topic.  We currently have the lowest gas prices in the
> country.  I doubt self-serve would drop the prices.  (I assume that's
> why you want it.)  I think it would merely raise the price for full
> serve, and there are times when you want full serve.

The real objection to self-service comes from the independent station owners.
They feel that if the major franchise stations are allowed to have
self-service lanes, the big companies who own them will drop prices FURTHER
and drive the independents out of business.  
 
- Jim

The views expressed are the author's only,          email   : @bowker.com
and not those of Reed Reference Publishing, Inc.          ...!uupsi!bepcp
                                                     FidoNet : 1:2605/705
Technical Details
Message-ID: <gate.BgPLwB1w164w@bowker.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!bepcp!Jim

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!bepcp!Jim
From: Jim@bepcp.UUCP
Newsgroups: nj.wanted
Subject: Self-Service Gas
Message-ID: <gate.BgPLwB1w164w@bowker.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 10:12:58 EST
Lines: 20