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It is my understanding that, because fuel is a fungible commodity with well known prizes, gas-stations don't make that much money on them, but instead make their money by charging more for the other things they sell - food, soda, cigs, etc - exactly the things that trucs don't buy, but humans do.

Besides if we end up with the same economies of scale that e.g AWS has the majority of trucks are going to be owned by any given company, which means that they may find it advantageous to establish their own fuel dumps.



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