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

Those tankers hold a SHITLOAD man. That truck holds about nine THOUSAND gallons. For a 30mpg car that’s over a quarter million miles. That’s the life of the damn car.

Edit: to put it a different way, the average person in the u.s. drives 14000 miles a year. The average mpg for vehicles in the u.s. is 26 mpg. At 9000 gallons per tanker, each tanker you see on the road sustains almost 17 YEARS of driving for a single person.