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Originally Posted by Silver Cervy
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I've also heard other conspiracies about gas stations, like how the advertised "cheap" price is only given on half of the pumps in a station, and that those pumps are programmed to flow a bit slower than the others so that people will be less inclined to use them, and instead use the "faster" pumps with the higher price. Another one I've heard is that many stations purposefully dilute their fuel to a certain degree to save money, which wouldn't surprise me at all if it turned out to be true.
What do you guys think? Any of you have an interesting gas station tale?
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Hey! I lived in Matthews until August before moving to Nashville. Nice area. I always went to the Exxon on the corner of Mint Hill Road and and 74 south, just before the interstate, and the Exxon on E Independence at the corner of Unionville - Indian Trail Road. Never had any complaints and now I always use Exxon stations - the bigger ones in high traffic areas.
I really don't trust the smaller stations.
I can't image a large conglomerate like Shell or Exxon wouldn't have strict systems in place to ensure only their branded gas is being sold at stations with their name. But....
The smaller ones? Dunno.
The margin on gasoline for the station owner is like $.01 per gallon, so possibly there are stations that do this, at least to a small degree. A station holds 6,000 gallons of fuel, or somewhere around there, right? If you dilute a few hundred gallons, that would be a lot more profit, and considering modern cars have fuel systems that will compensate to a degree to the kind of gas in tank, well, who would ever know.
Maybe someone didn't know the station tank hadn't been filled, or they were waiting for a delivery and went ahead and put water in. Maybe you just got there at the wrong time.
Don't want to fuel the conspiracy though.