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New state law banned a county’s gas stations from selling liquor. So some stopped selling gas. (McKinley County, New Mexico [home to members of Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo])
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | September 18, 2021 | Patrick Lohmann

Posted on 09/20/2021 1:15:09 PM PDT by CedarDave

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To: CedarDave

Isn’t ethanol just moonshine with poison so you can’t drink it.


41 posted on 09/20/2021 1:57:06 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
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To: seowulf

Well, and another way to look at it is that the price, and to an extent the margin, on goods is a numerical measurement of how essential the local market finds those good to be. If you can make more money selling booze than gas, it means booze is more essential to the buyers than gas is. Who’s George Munoz to decide?


42 posted on 09/20/2021 1:58:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: CedarDave

Gus Fring can start selling gas at Los Pollos Hermanos.


43 posted on 09/20/2021 1:59:16 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: CedarDave

Of course constituents laying face down in their own vomit usually vote democrat, so there is that going for mr legislator.


44 posted on 09/20/2021 1:59:25 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
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To: CedarDave

Did they just split the store?All they need is booth outside with an attendant and the clerk in the liquor store says - I don’t sell gas.


45 posted on 09/20/2021 2:05:53 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: CedarDave

It’s a profit thing. Apparently nobody in the legislature understands the gross margin concept of owning a small retail store. Next they will probably not let liquor stores sell lottery tickets with a 1% margin. Thatll show em!!


46 posted on 09/20/2021 2:06:39 PM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: BBB333

What state is that College in?


47 posted on 09/20/2021 2:30:35 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: CedarDave

They need an initiative to make it illegal for politicians to restrict sales of a legal substance. Time to limit the politicians instead of letting them limit the citizenry.


48 posted on 09/20/2021 2:30:58 PM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: CedarDave

Who needs gas when everybody is driving an E.V.?


49 posted on 09/20/2021 2:32:33 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: CedarDave

Seems like an easy fix. One wall and a separate door. Apply for a new address for the separate entrance and voila... Liquor at one entrance and a gas station at the other. Actually, I’ve seen it done in Texas. One side will have a beer license and the other will have a malt & liquor license.


50 posted on 09/20/2021 2:56:17 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Gallup 50% off city. Your rate may vary!


51 posted on 09/20/2021 3:10:22 PM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: IYAS9YAS
I erred in saying it was a law - it's a NM Supreme Court decision (see the link).

What's not clear is how a clerk inside the store is supposed to know whether a person paying at the pump is intoxicated. If that person paid inside to the clerk, or came inside to buy a pack of cigarettes, the clerk could tell if he was impaired. In the former, the clerk could deny the purchase while in the latter, selling the cigarettes would not be against the court's decision, but the clerk could observe and notify law enforcement that the person appeared drunk. In any case, the clerk has to be aware that many intoxicated persons can be violent if provoked and has to be aware that denial could cause injury to himself.

52 posted on 09/20/2021 3:15:16 PM PDT by CedarDave (Wearing a mask to keep you safe from the virus is like putting up chicken wire to keep out mosquitos)
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To: CedarDave

work around. Rent the pumps to some who then sells the gas.


53 posted on 09/20/2021 3:15:19 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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54 posted on 09/20/2021 3:22:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CedarDave

So the price of booze went up slightly for “free” gas.


55 posted on 09/20/2021 3:25:29 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Gallup is the home town of Garden Deluxe “Wine”


56 posted on 09/20/2021 3:26:17 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: CedarDave
Good movie......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ffbjaYnbc

57 posted on 09/20/2021 3:26:19 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: BBB333
When I was a kid...we could not buy beer on Sunday...

We drove to a small town north of us that would sell beer on Sunday..and bot it.

Pulled around the back...had a drive thru windrow...took our money and shoved out a 6 pack..or two.

58 posted on 09/20/2021 3:31:04 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: qaz123

Scum Democrats always try to make someone feel guilty, if they don’t go along with their narrative.
= = =

Nope. If the alky buyers can’t buy gas, they can’t drive.

That is a responsible thing, right?

Looking out for the customer’s safety.


59 posted on 09/20/2021 3:32:34 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: CedarDave
In any case, the clerk has to be aware that many intoxicated persons can be violent if provoked and has to be aware that denial could cause injury to himself.

For that matter, unless the clerk watched the person who came into the store actually get out of the driver's seat, how the heck would he or she know?

60 posted on 09/20/2021 3:33:04 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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