Store mistakenly sells 33-cent gasoline

[IDemo]

Drivers Line Up in Rural Wis. After Worker Accidentally Drops Gas to 33 Cents

Staff
AP News

Dec 07, 2007 22:47 EST

Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon. An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night mistakenly entered the price of a gallon of gasoline as 32.9 cents instead of $3.299 on Monday night.

He left about 10 p.m., but drivers could still use their credit cards to buy gas.

Word of the bargain spread fast in the rural northern Wisconsin community, with 42 people buying 586 gallons of gas in an hour and 45 minutes. One person had pumped 27 gallons and two purchased 18 gallons.

Local police saw the horde at the station and called store manager Andrea Reuland, who went to the station and pushed the emergency stop.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Store_mistakenly_sells_33_cent_gaso_12072007.html

Thirty three cents?? I remember when gas was a quarter a gallon!

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. when i first started buying gas it was .99 cents a gallon

I'll tell my kids that. they won't believe me.

[gatorboy]

4. That wouldn't happen to be in the Goldie Oldie 90's would it?

Oh, that cheap Clinton gas...Glad that era's over. :eyes:

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. yup, '96.

My kids will probably be paying $10 a gallon by the time they drive.

[Richard Steele]

15. Yeah, what a horrible time we had... suffering under the Clinton Administration!

[NMMNG]

7. It was 81 cents a gallon when I started driving in 1985

That seems like a lifetime ago.

[Deja Q]

2. Beat you to it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7218487
Only by 1 minute, but still... :rofl:

:rofl:

[Contrary1]

3. The lowest price I ever paid was 16.9 back in 1970.

Gas war in Michigan. It was a beautiful time...in more ways than one. :hippie:

[TwilightGardener]

5. This happened to me a couple of months ago--

I stopped at a station just after they had changed the prices to 2.79, and I didn't notice until I had finished pumping that I got a full tank for .79 a gallon. I went into the store and notified the clerk and manager--boy, they got it fixed in a hurry!

[Rosemary2205]

27. Kudos to you.

Obviously the people in that town thought so little of one of their own neighbors that they chose to call all their family and friends to come fuck the guy over too. The idiots probably thought they were sticking it to big oil. Instead they fucked over a small business owner that is probably barely making ends meet just like them.

[Mojorabbit]

8. That is about what it was

when I got my first car. Sigh.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Gas was about 45 cents a gallon when I started driving.

But I remember 23 cent a gallon gas being expensive when I was a kid.

[Lugnut]

10. I remember 5 gals for a buck.

I started driving back in 1961. Gas stations gave out free premiums for fill-ups back then too. Those were the days.

[orleans]

11. people are posting what the price of gas was when they first

started driving.

i'm sitting here thinking: who the fuck can remember that?

i guess it wasn't very important to me because it made absolutely no impression

(and that's the excuse i'm giving for my shitty memory)

[izquierdista]

13. I can remember the first gas crisis

Even though I was in college and didn't have a car at the time. Seeing all the cars lined up to buy gas, I was happy I didn't have to put up with it. And the thought of charging over 40 cents for gas, when just a month ago all the stations had been selling it for 32.9 a gallon!

[Swamp Rat]

12. The station employee will get the DEATH PENALTY for that.

:D

[B Calm]

16. After he pays back what the owner lost, then death..

[LisaL]

18. No death penalty, but my guess would be he could be fired over

this. When I worked at the gas station, they used to fire people for a lot less.

[Horse with no Name]

14. My first car was a 66 Mustang

It was cherry. My Dad restored it for me and gave it to me for Christmas, my birthday, etc ad infinitum.
It was mint except for one thing.
The gas gauge was unreliable.
I remember everytime I left town I put $1 of gas in it(we lived 5 miles out of town)--and on Saturdays I put $5 in it.
That poor car would have probably died if I ever filled it up.:rofl:

[Mojorabbit]

22. Mine was a 68 javelin

which was beat up and the gas guage did not work. I also put a dollar in it whenever i went anywhere. I was pretty good at estimating but still ran out of gas many times. Triple A finally threatened to drop me if I did not get it fixed cause they were tired of bringing me gas when I ran out while on the road. Ah good times.

[Horse with no Name]

24. Good times indeed.

Nowadays, you couldn't even stop on a dollar if you wanted to...pump goes too fast.

[LisaL]

17. Hah, hah, hah. Too bad I wasn't there to buy it. LOL.

[taterguy]

19. So the store tried to save money by not having an employee on site

And then got screwed?

Karma's a bitch

[LisaL]

20. A lot of stores close up at night.

I guess they all deserve karma according to you?

[taterguy]

21. Yes

[CRF450]

26. They dont need an employee on site during the night time hours.

People can still use the pumps if they have a credit or debit card, but those who have just cash are out of luck till the station opens again.

The only people here getting screwed are the employees, not the oil execs.

[spanone]

23. my news reported last night that they will face federal fines

guess it's a law you can't sell this shit cheap. free markets????

[Horse with no Name]

25. Yeah, free?

That's a load of horse hockey.
An acquaintance owns a gas station and Exxon RULES the gas prices, not him.

[earth mom]

28. Sounds like Santa Claus in disguise...

O8)

[hyphenate]

29. I remember my dad

getting a full tank--or close to it--for $2.00. In a per gallon case, I recall about 28.9¢ at the pump.