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Selling cheap gas to promote electric cars?

Let's see. You're a gas station owner who wants to get out of the petrol business and into something a little more eco-friendly. Electric cars, say. How do you mark the transition? For Milton Grin, owner of a Valero in Kansas City, Missouri, the answer was to attract attention to his new venture by selling his current product at discount prices - like $1.99 for a gallon of gas (diesel prices remained high). To take advantage of the media and customer attention his sale generated, Grin had three EVs on display at the pumps. To me, this is a ... Read more →

Non-auto related businesses giving away free gas Jeremy Korzeniewski

By now, you are surely aware of the gas promotions being run by auto companies such as Chrysler and Suzuki. While these programs have proved unsuccessful overall, this has not stopped other ...

Well, this is one way to avoid paying high gas prices... Sebastian Blanco

The last time we wrote about stupid-cheap gas, the frenzy was due to a mistake. In December, at a gas station in Wisconsin, an employee accidentally set the price of gas to 32.9 cents instead of ...

Whoops - employee accident brings 33 cent gasoline to Wisconsin town, frenzy ensues Sebastian Blanco

While Americans might be more and more conscious about using less gas, if you start (almost) giving it away, the conserving mentality goes right out the window. Last week, the AP reports, a gas ...

Selling cheap gas to promote electric cars? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Let's see. You're a gas station owner who wants to get out of the petrol business and into something a little more eco-friendly. Electric cars, say. How do you mark the transition? For Milton Grin, owner of a Valero in Kansas City, Missouri, the answer was to attract attention to his new venture by ...

Non-auto related businesses giving away free gas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

By now, you are surely aware of the gas promotions being run by auto companies such as Chrysler and Suzuki. While these programs have proved unsuccessful overall, this has not stopped other industries from jumping on the bandwagon. For instance, such diverse companies as Callaway Golf, Hasbro ...

Well, this is one way to avoid paying high gas prices... 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The last time we wrote about stupid-cheap gas, the frenzy was due to a mistake. In December, at a gas station in Wisconsin, an employee accidentally set the price of gas to 32.9 cents instead of $3.299. Over in South Charleston, West Virginia, the price of gas was set to an even lower price - just a ...

Whoops - employee accident brings 33 cent gasoline to Wisconsin town, frenzy ensues 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While Americans might be more and more conscious about using less gas, if you start (almost) giving it away, the conserving mentality goes right out the window. Last week, the AP reports, a gas station employee in Wisconsin goofed up before leaving the shop for the night, setting the price of gas ...


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