A no frills gas station isn’t a half bad idea for a private sector owner.
Gas, wiper fluid, oil, etc.
I wonder if the city-owned gas station has an additional competitive edge over the privately owned stations by operating with an exemption from property taxes.
We have one like that locally. Costco. Nothing but gasoline at their station. It’s always at least a nickel a gallon cheaper than anywhere else. An with as many miles as I put on the membership more than pays for itself.
You obviously know nothing about the independent gasoline business.
They don't make anything on the gas. They are a hostage to the big oil companies that supply them the gas.
They make their profit selling soda and snacks, pretty much like movie theaters, who don't make anything on the movie because it all goes to the distributors.
Selling the stuff in the convenience store is what keeps most operators in business. They can’t make it onfuel sales alone.
..........I just got back from a month in the Yukon Territory. Several times I passed gas pumps in the middle of nowhere that were just a gas pump! They were unmanned and no personnel were around.
Gas was $6.16 a gallon. Imagine, if your heart can stand it, filling up a 100 gallon truck tank!
No frills pumps are coming. No doubt about it.
Drive back into Alaska and gas was $4.11 a gallon. But, there’s free health care and long vacations and short work weeks and yadi, yadi in socialist paradise Canada.