Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Canadian gaspumps may be ripping off customers

No shit.

Canadians already paying steep gas prices can add one more cost to their bill: forking over money for fuel they didn't receive.

Government data obtained by CBC News shows that six per cent of all gas pumps tested over the past 2½ years failed to dispense the right amount of fuel. In about two-thirds of the faulty tests, customers bore the brunt of the error.

The loss adds up to an average of a couple of dollars for every 50 tankfuls, the Automobile Protection Association estimates, but the total loss across Canada is in the millions.


Give them some sympathy, it's hard to fix your equipment when you're on the phone to all the other stations in the city price fixing.

Priorities people, priorities.

Read more here.

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