I’m from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for two digits (cents) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted “1” at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days agoI started driving in the 90s. I remember my favorite local gas station closing because their gas pumps could only go up to $0.999
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
finley@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I can 100% guarantee that that is not why they closed. Adding an extra decimal point to assign isn’t in trouble. Handling an order of magnitude of change to your pricing structure, however, isn’t.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
He had mechanical pumps. It had nothing to do with a sign, the pumps themselves were physically incapable of metering at a rate higher than $0.999.
He was also in his mid-60s and didn’t want to invest in new pumps for the gas station he ran out his front yard.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In the 70s or 80s when gas first broke the $1/gallon barrier, the just put up a sign saying the price was per 1/2 gallon and they’d double the charge when you went in to pay.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
$1 gas station, sweet!
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
So the last comment you made had little to do with reality. Sweet.
0ops@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Jesus Christ, take a walk my friend. No need for that toxicity in a shit post community
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
But Elmer said Cleetus was slack-jawed and pork fat could power a diesel enjun anyhoo, Egbert.
finley@lemm.ee 4 days ago
And all that pork fat made their hearts explode by the time they were 38. So much for Elmer and Cletus. The rest of us learned better and moved on.
Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, we really dodged a bullet by completely eliminating pork fat from our diets even though we didn’t and added chemicals that make men grow lovely boobs.