Gas Station Owners, Blamed When Prices Rose, Face Risks as Prices Fall

Gasoline costs are falling virtually as shortly as they rose, creating new complications for the mom-and-pop entrepreneurs and different impartial operators who run roughly half of U.S. fuel stations.

Fuel station house owners set the costs customers see on the pump, primarily based on what they initially paid to fill their underground tanks of gasoline and diesel. They must promote that gas for a corresponding quantity to recoup their investments and handle a revenue, which might take days or perhaps weeks, relying on how shortly they flip over their stock.