Daymn...I am never in the right place....35 cents a gallon for gas all day

[greenbriar]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_fe_st/odd_cheap_gas


WILMINGTON, N.C. - Traffic was backed up and police were called to control the crowd after a Wilmington gas station accidentally set the pump price at 35 cents a gallon.


The Wilmington Star-News reported Friday that hundreds of drivers flooded a BP station for the cheap gas after the price dropped around 9 a.m. Thursday.

Station employee Shane Weller said the price for premium gasoline was supposed to be $3.35 a gallon. He complained that customers paid the cheaper price all day without saying a word.

It was all the extra traffic that led station employees to the mistake around 6 p.m. They found it after calling their district manager, looking for permission to changing the price as a way of stemming the flow of customers.

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[Breeze54]

1. Damn! I wish I'd been there too!

:(

I need gas.... I can only 'coast' on the fumes.

[TheFarseer]

2. someone's getting fired!

A couple weeks ago, a place in Omaha accidentally had gas for $2.09 for a few hours. I know - not as impressive as your story.

[greenbriar]

3. and they wonder why no one said anything all day? Hell, I would have called up all my family

and said quick get down here bring all your vehicles!!!!!!!!

[DS1]

4. Those ungrateful customers all buying gasoline and reduced prices

and not telling that little old trillion dollar industry

[Nitrogenica]

5. Somewhere, oil executives are laughing their way to the bank, indifferent to this.

[Pavulon]

6. They paid cost. They forgot the $3.00 gal markup..

good for them.

[cynatnite]

7. Only because that idiot didn't realize that people were getting a full tank for a few bucks...

I would have fired him.

[greenbriar]

8. maybe he didn't know they were filling up

maybe he just thought the 5 and 10 dollar sales were from people who could only afford that much

[XemaSab]

9. It's 3.75 throughout California

:(