Re: Home DIY gasoline station

On 6/18/2025 9:26 PM, Ivano Rossi wrote:

On 18 Jun 2025 06:58:34 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

The last couple of times that I've been back, the farms are mostly gone.
The land is still being farmed, but the small mom and pop farmers have
apparently died or moved on.

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As Earl Butz said "Get big or get out." That's been the USDA mantra since
his era. The reasoning behind it is cheap (relatively) food. Hungry people
tend to get pissed off. Keep them fat, literally, dumb, and happy.

 How does the gasoline get to the tank?
Fuel trucks?
 Is the delivery fee for 50 or 100 gallons prohibitive?
Are the prices competitive for the gasoline per gallon?
 How does that delivery stuff work?

The same local fuel distributors who fill service stations and convenience stores deliver to those farm tanks.
I have a retired truck driver customer who works a few weeks per year during planting and harvest, driving a large tanker of diesel out to the edge of fields to refuel heavy farm equipment.  Large farming operations need that and have multiple crews for very long work days.  Butz was right.
Same procedure for other industries:
https://www.southvillepetroleum.com/wp-content/themes/southville/images/banner-diesel-fuel.jpg
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