How does a gas station manage to serve thousands of cars multiple gallons of gas a day when the gas tanker trucks that deliver gas don’t look like they hold that much? How do gas stations manage to keep up with their demand?

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How does a gas station manage to serve thousands of cars multiple gallons of gas a day when the gas tanker trucks that deliver gas don’t look like they hold that much? How do gas stations manage to keep up with their demand?

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Because cars aren’t being filled by the tanker trucks, they’re being filled from the underground tanks which have storage capacities in the multiple tens of thousands of gallons. [Here’s one manufacturer](https://www.zcl.com/en/storage-solutions/fuel/underground-fuel-tanks/) that makes tanks up to 50,000 gallons in capacity. Most gas stations have at least regular and premium, meaning they have at least 2 tanks (if not more). There could be hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel beneath larger gas stations.