Scary and sad note from an article linked from this one: gas stations in southern California are trying to figure out how to update their gas pumps since they now need to charge more than $9.9999 for diesel and there aren’t more numbers on the pumps.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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Perhaps they should use less fractional numbers then.
Why on earth would you price anything beyond the cent?
Gas pumps are highly regulated so even if the individual station owners have the ability to change this directly (which, given the user unfriendly state of software, is not guaranteed), they may still need to wait until the relevant governing body sorts it out. It’s clearly not an insurmountable problem, but it isn’t just a 5 minute fix.
The fractions of a cent seem silly but people typically purchase more than one gallon at a time so the fractions add up to whole cents pretty regularly. And while I never notice if my 10 gallons of gas cost a few cents more than the $x.xx cost would indicate, the station owner is getting those pennies from thousands of gallons a month. Still not crazy huge money, but retail fuel is a pretty low margin business.
What an absolute best time to get rid of imperials and join metrics
absolute best time to get rid of imperials
anytime is good to rid of imperials of all kinds. lol
We've done this before with cents to dollars https://discover.hubpages.com/autos/Gasoline-Prices-How-910th-of-a-Cent-Pricing-Became-Standard-in-the-Fuel-Industry
This is good news for larger trucking companies they now get gobble up those small ones and cosaldate more and more into smaller carriers who will raise prices higher and higher untill the economy finally crashes. Which for them is end goal cause they get to buy up the spoils at pennies on the dollar. We are fucked by 2030 if we make it as a country going be rough.