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Originally Posted by mazeroni
Maybe my math is wrong, but wouldn't 200 gallons of water (gas prices at 2.50) = 500$? in more profit because the price of water is basically nill.
Which is why I think someone would do it.
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It would take a LOT of sales to reach 200 gallons of water (displaced fuel). The threshold for diluting fuel with water would have to be in the thousandths per gallon, which means that in order to effectively sell 1 gallon of water you'd have to sell thousands of gallons of fuel. So basically for every 1,000+ gallons of fuel sold you'd be saving $2.50 or whatever the price of the fuel is.
It seems unrealistic but I agree that some stations probably do try it, since they're all greedy bastards.