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To: Jeff Gordon
Gas station pumps run on electricity. When the power goes out, gas does not get pumped.

That's a business decision. While stationed overseas, we powered the fuel pump from the battery of each vehicle being filled.

Stateside, commercial gas station owners don't want to put in generators because they can't recoup the costs and don't trust the gas jockeys to not burn the place down.

76 posted on 04/29/2021 4:19:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

It is not just the physical pump that needs electricity. It is the payment system which also needs the Internet.


100 posted on 04/29/2021 3:05:29 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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