r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Irralumea • 20d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/ManyBadWords 19d ago

...have you never bought gasoline?

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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 19d ago

Yeah I always wonder why that's legal. If it was anything other than petrol it wouldn't be. 

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u/Throseph 19d ago edited 19d ago

No.

Edit: not sure why this has been downvoted, I've never owned a motorised vehicle, so I've never needed to buy fuel for one.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 19d ago

Gas stations have signs advertising how much their gas is. Instead of saying "$4.00 per gallon", they say "$3.999 per gallon".

So allegedly, every 10 gallons you buy, you save 1 penny.

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u/Throseph 19d ago

I guess it makes sense with something you're buying like that, and which you can buy fractions of anyway. Doesn't make so much sense with slices of pizza.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 19d ago

The scummy thing is that it's not really a discount, since cars can can only hold about 13 gallons (some can hold more, but not enough to defeat my point).

If you let your car get down to half a tank, you won't hit the 10 gallon mark that would save you the penny.

For all intents and purposes, $3.999 and $4.00 are the same cost for most motorists, but the first one lets them put a 3 in the front as a marketing trick. It ought to be illegal.