From: "Mark" 

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten the real reason they were doing it. 

Now that you say that, I'm quite sure I remember some stations pricing the
gallons at just the cents and adding a dollar per gallon when you paid. No
doubt the state weights and measures guys were busy as hell then 


"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:01:08 -0500, Richard B. 
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:35:28 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>> No one liked having to figure
>>> out what they were getting and his signs on the street, say .31, just
>>> made everyone think he ran out of 1s and was asking $1.31/gallon vs. the
>>> equivilent $1.17 
>>
>>  Was this Goober's gas station? 
>>
>> - Richard
>
> I remember those days, though I was just a wee lad; they were trying to
> get around having to get new pumps that could register amounts greater
> than 99.9 cents/gal.  By switching to liters (quarts would have worked,
> too, but that was the metric heyday) they could keep the old pumps.
>
> Now, of course, being digital, they can reprice them while you're pumping.
>
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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