This doesn’t really make sense to me.
“If you put 1 gallon in at 3.71 (and you are trusting the pump to tell you what one gallon is) then when the pump say’s 1 gallon then it will also say 3.71.
“The only way to truly check this would be to have a 1 gallon container in the car which you fill up first.
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“ What the described check will do is verify that the outdoor sign matches the price programmed into the pump.”
You are exactly right, another reason to call BS on this item, in addition to Weights and Measures showing up in 20 minutes.
If consumers want to get upset about something, I’d recommend getting upset at how much the federal, state, and local governments are making off the sale of a gallon of gasoline. Their percentage is usually way higher than what the either the oil company refiner or the gas station owner makes off the same gallon.
The biggest rip-off is the ethanol that EPA requires in just about all gasoline sold today. You don’t get near the gas mileage from ethanol that you get from the same volume of gasoline, the ethanol is damaging a lot of engines and fuel systems, worst of all, it is not cleaning up pollution or reducing carbon dioxide. EPA requires it because Congress wants to keep getting huge contributions from agri-business and to keep getting midwestern farm votes.
About ETHANOL: recently - well, better late than never - I heard about a site that listed user-reported stations that had ethanol - by location.
- - - and ! found one a couple miles away !
[ seems however that they dont lower the price of ethanol when the price of gas in general goes down, as lately.
I read somewhere were Exxon Mobile made about 2 cents/gallon profit in 2010, whereas the fed takes 18.4 and 24.4 cents/gallon for gas and diesel respectively, and states vary. For example, Idaho taxes fuel at 25 cents/gallon for gas and diesel.