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I wonder why they went out of business (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think I know where this is!! West Butler Road, Greenville, SC?

Edit: Mauldin, not Greenville. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Those power poles do not look okay...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

welcome to the south:)))

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Do we know WHEN they went out of business? Because 2007, it wasn't uncommon to see gas at even $5.10 per gallon.

Also, on the day after 9/11, in New York, some gas stations went from the (at the time) common gas prices of $1.15 and made it as high as $5.00 per gallon. Then, the next day, president Bush had made that practice illegal.

So, if they happened to go out of business on 9/12/01, or anytime around 2007, this price would have been seen as low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This sign gets flipped around by vandals pretty regularly. Right now, it says all 7s.

Edit: Just drove past it, it's back to 420

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is SC, I don't think it has been over $4 at any point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

You haven't been to North Augusta where, during the freeze of 2013/2014 many stations jacked up prices well-beyond reasonable and are now, no longer in business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

that's cents per gallon, right?

1 gal is 4.54609 l... 420.9/4.54609≈92.58 so 92.6¢/l.

looks at local gas station 18:49/l to dollars... 182¢/l to gallons...

827.3¢/gal. which it was just lowered to from well above 22 sek/l, or 982¢/gal.

man the US has cheap gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This would be rather expensive for most of the US. In a lot of areas we're seeing $2.85ish/gal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

jeesum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

They ran out of snacks. No one knows why. However, everyone knows that the gasoline is sold pretty close to cost, and the snacks are the real moneymaker.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

A closed down gas station with a price set at $4.20. Some worker had a great last day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Getting high on their own supply?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Notice to employees, stop smoking the gas