Pump your gasoline slowly
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The government protects its citizens from being improperly charged. The style of pump for fuels is closely monitored, the weights and measures agency tests the output and decides the frequency of accuracy inspection based on the history of how the pumping system performs based on their history with that pumping system. If there was a problem the odds are that the pump would be shut down before you tried to pump. And what if the pump was giving you free fuel? would you complain? nope, but the station owner would be livid.
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Who wants to stay at the gas station any longer than needed? Between the homeless bums asking for a handout,others willing to smear your windows for a couple of dollars,loud boom boom radios, people yelling and whatever else I'm in and out as fast as possible.
AZjeff
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Have yet to have any of those things happen here in Prescott Valley. Ask your brother. Must be a Cali thing?
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None of that activity here either..
Some places don't put up with that crap.
Ours are, also. Once every 3 years!
My preferred (and closest) Shell station is associated with Rudy's Country Store & Bar-B-Que. Not only are they high volume, they are located very close to our city's police station. We don't have panhandling in my city, unlike the organized panhandling in Austin.
If this were true wouldn't that then fail the weights and measures test? I assume its just a in line flow meter yes? I wonder how often those tests are run. I see the stickers on the pumps here.
I fill my 5 gallon cans every few months at full on and it seems to always be pretty much on par?
I fill my 5 gallon cans every few months at full on and it seems to always be pretty much on par?
I have had people asking for money at various places in the South. There usually pretty respectful actually - probably figured out the other way will get you something else you don't want.
The other things nope.
Unless traveling, nearly all of my fuel purchases are at my local Costco. Never saw a bum or panhandler at a Costco gas station
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Who would want these people at their place of business? I won't patronize those places
I would have to assume they come and go, or the low wage cashier isn't going to start a fight over it. I presume the owner would run them off if around?
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Most police don't want to deal with it. Here if you pull out the I'll work for food sign they grab you right away...
In this specific example, most all Governments ensures that when you buy any item that is sold by weight or volume, that the vendor has to have their equipment calibrated on a regular basis to prevent under or over measures.Why then does the government improperly charge us ?
However, you already knew that. Your next question is questioning that all Government actions will be beneficial and of fair value for the end consumer. This can't devolve into a political thread, but I ask you:
Can you find your pair of rose coloured glasses?
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Certainly......
Patman
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If there ever were, one of the many attendants who work there would shoo them away. That’s the nice thing about Costco is that they have 3 or 4 employees there to direct traffic and can also keep an eye out to make sure that no scammers try to sneak a card skimmer onto one of the pumps.
I forget you all are allowed to pump your own gas. Granted I do it anyway, but still... keep on forgetting.
CleanSump
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With underground tanks, the difference in temperature of the fuel between morning, midday, evening, and night is probably only going to be affected in the last few feet at the pump to the nozzle. Not enough to matter. As for vapor etc, yeah, maybe a minute diff.
Is it 1974 yet?
Is it 1974 yet?
Do you know my brother?
I was going to type the same thing.
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