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Old Gas Pumps Can’t Keep Up With Rising Prices
REARDAN, Wash. (AP) — Mom-and-pop service stations are running into
a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of
old-fashioned pumps can’t register more than $3.99 on their spinning
mechanical dials. The pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the American road, are
difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of
the question for station owners who are still just scraping by. Many of the same pumps can only count up to $99.99 for the total
sale, preventing owners of some SUVs, vans, trucks and tractor-trailers
to fill their tanks all the way. As many as 8,500 of the nation’s 170,000 service stations have
old-style meters that need to be fixed - about 17,000 individual pumps,
said Bob Renkes, executive vice president of the Petroleum Equipment
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