we stopped in Vale, NC, got gas in our little Tie-Yoda.

here's what the print out said, from inside the store,
old pumps, just pump, nothing on them (card reader/receipt)

here's what the gas line looks like:
gal 107.928 149/ Self @ 0.309

it's all the same to me, because here's
what the corrected numbers show in my spread sheet:

Odometer......Gallons......Mileage........Cost.... .......Cost per Gallon
324.6............10.7928.....30.08.........$31.19. .......2.89

and that's what i got charged, $2.89 a gal, and what they had on thier sign.

so what, are they under-reporting the amount sold on taxes and cheating the Roads dept,or just a goof up?

 

Hard to say. I heard there are some old pumps that cannot register anything over $3.00 / gallon so they charge by the 1/2 gallon or even quart. Does that makes any sence to your numbers? Having said that it still makes no sense.

 

yep, was a pretty old pump,

maybe was it? just kinda odd.

 

It is because the 2 is not there. Many states it is illegal to sell for anything less than a gallon so they sell it that way. Who would have ever thought in the 60s that gas would have been $2+ a gallon.

 

Way back when I used to repair gas pumps a lot of the pumps still used manual "computers". Basically a mass of gears driven by the meter that you could change the ratio on. They were marked by price in pennys. To combat the high price of a new computer when the price went over a dollar a gallon, you could install a "doubler kit". You then divided your selling price by 2 and set the gear train. With this kit came a small magnetic sign to cover the computers shown price with the selling price. These were easy to spot because you could only sell at 8 tenths of a cent in the last digit. I would assume with fuel near 3 dollars a gallon someone has recreated the multiplier gear set to give a much higher selling price. My past experience tells me that these manual computers will not last too long with the total sale numbers rolling that fast. You may want to keep buying there as when they failed the customer was usually the winner. They would also pop out of gear once in a while and the customer wins again.

 

I have said for many years that they should just round it to the next cent, and drop the .9. It made a difference when gas was 23.9 cents a gallon, but when it is $1.999 (It should just be $1.99, or $2.00) it`s just to make it look a little cheaper.

 

i thought it was to screw us out of another penny (almost)