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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those power poles do not look okay...

[–] dastechniker 4 points 2 months ago

welcome to the south:)))

[–] Lost_My_Mind 22 points 2 months 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.

[–] dastechniker 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Late2TheParty 3 points 2 months 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.

[–] wjrii 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 2 months ago

This math checks out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] dastechniker 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: Mauldin, not Greenville. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are correct! Hello fellow member of the upstate.

[–] dastechniker 1 points 2 months ago

Hello! 🤚

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Getting high on their own supply?

[–] Nurse_Robot 1 points 2 months ago

Notice to employees, stop smoking the gas