The old Conoco station in northeast Missouri that my family operated since
1934 had three tanks, 2000, 1500, & 500 gallons.  Back in the eighties we
were given the opportunity to purchase the tanks or close.  We wisely took
the option to close.  One of the things that drove the decision was that you
could not completely fill any of the three tanks.  Our bulk fuel reseller
had to remove all three tanks and it was a weeks works to get all tree out
of the ground and the area properly 'sanitized' for reuse.  While working it
looked like you could drop the entire building in the hole.............

Route 66 Rider!
Ramon Hill
Live Long and Be Free
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Kim Brennan
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:03 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Stranded - my first heartbreak

How curious that you mention this. Down near my WV place the local store
(Bower's Store) in Sugar Grove just had to upgrade his gas tanks. Of course
he only has regular and diesel so I don't always get gas there (for my SVX
powered Westy). In WV gas pumps are usually every 30, 40 miles...but they
might not be OPEN for business. They aren't 24 hour places like you get used
to around cities. After 8pm you might have to travel 100+ miles between open
gas stations.

On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Gary Bawden wrote:

> but since the EPA started to pay attention to leaking gasoline storage
> tanks, many of the mom & pop gas stations have gone the way of the
> dodo, rather than spend the big bucks required to upgrade