[Porsche-O-Phile]

Station operators make very little.

In fact some of them have their prices set by the oil company directly (I worked for a Mobil station years ago that was this way - every morning the prices would come in from corporate and we'd have to change them to what we were told to set them at). Might be different for independently-owned/franchise stations versus corporate-owned but the point is a lot of times the local guy has no say over the pricing and even in the cases where they do, the profit margins are very, very slim.

They make a helluva lot more off selling sodas and Fritos than gasoline.