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Rounding up that fraction to a full extra penny would barely matter to most drivers. So why is it still there? Look at it this way. If you're shopping for other products, like groceries or clothes, you probably tend to disregard the cents after the dollar price. Even if the price ends in. The practice of ending prices with ". Gas prices benefit from the same phenomenon, except on an even smaller scale, fractions of a penny instead of fractions of a dollar. Marketplace reports those extra penny fragments add up to half a billion dollars per year.
An intersection may have several gas stations, but not all of them are competitors. Typically, station owners say , they're concerned only with other stations on the same side of the road. Many consumers will drive longer to find a cheaper station on the same side of the street, but generally won't cut across heavy traffic just to save a few cents a gallon, particularly if there's a median.
But Rick Peltonen, a listener from Minneapolis, wanted to know — and, well, we wondered too. They were in front of a livery or a general store or a pharmacy and they were placed right at the curb. And so you would just pull your car up to the curb and get your gas pumped.
So in the beginning, in the s, the gas tank cap was on the curb side, so it was just easy for the fella to fill it up. But cars were, of course, sold in other countries. Countries that were equally practical, and equally worried about safety. They actually sometimes carried an extra tank of gas on the running board for when they did run out. But then gas gauges came in, and running out of gas became less of a problem.
That gas tank will probably be on the left side. The Fords that are made primarily for American use will be on the right side. And some designers may choose to put it on one side or the other strictly for design purposes. Everything else is so regulated by the EPA or insurance standards or the Department of Transportation, and the gas tank filler is not regulated.
So when a car is designed, the last leg of that can be where they put the gas tank filler. Ever wondered if recycling is worth it? Or how store brands stack up against name brands? What do you wonder? Let us know here :. Our mission at Marketplace is to raise the economic intelligence of the country. Marketplace helps you understand it all, will fact-based, approachable, and unbiased reporting. Generous support from listeners and readers is what powers our nonprofit news—and your donation today will help provide this essential service.
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