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One cent per gallon is taken everytime you purchase gasoline to fund the Underground Storage Tank fund in each state. Several states over the years have abused their funds like their lottery's. The fund is actually self supporting and takes care of UST gasoline releases and critical aquifer cleanup. Their are thousands of stations across the country that have been shut down by independant owners because they could not afford the up-front 10K deductible most states require before the fund kick's in. Up to one-million bucks of state money can be allocated for each facility clean-up, which rarely happens, but the owner is relieved of very high cleanup expenditures in the long term. Old steel tanks not cathodically protected, no leak detection, single fuel line's, bad fuel dump practices, etc, etc, have over time contributed to the massive impacts to groundwater supplies to sole-source aquifers. It is a major environemtal issue.

These small station owners, make their living on beer, tobacco and snack sales....not on gas!
Sad, going quickly are the fuel-station repair facilities, where I recall my parents would take the caddy in for oil changes and brake work. That is where the dollars were made.

Ever since the Exxon Valdez incident years ago, I have refused to gas up at Exxon and that will remain so until my foot can no longer touch a gas pedal....................

Bob
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