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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Answer 1

He average tanker contains 10,000 gallons of fuel and the average car is 15 gallons of fuel. Also a petrol station wouldn’t serve thousands of cars. They can do around 80 cars an hour which multiplied by 24 gives you 1,920 gallons. This is UK based so scale it to the bigger us stations and they may have 10-12 pumps which is still under the medium to bigger size fuel tankers which make up the average.