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Gas Station Manager Changes Gas Price to 69 Cents.. Then it happens

The manager of a Northern California filling station found his employment summarily terminated after he mistakenly set the gas cost to 69 cents a gallon, much to the delight of his customers and to the likely rage of his former employer. John Szczecina, who acted as the supervisor for a Shell filling station in Rancho Cordova, stated he erroneously put the decimal in the wrong area which the rate was expected to be $6.99 a gallon.

“I put all three prices on there, except the diesel. The last one kind of didn’t go. So, I just took responsibility for it and said yeah, it’s my fault,” Szczecina told ABC News Fresno station KFSN.

The rates mistake apparently cost the gasoline station $16,000, as numerous motorists took advantage of the error and filled their tanks.

PHOTO: A customer pumps gas into his truck at the Shell station in Rancho Cordova, Calif., June 10, 2022.
A client pumps gas into his truck at the Shell station in Rancho Cordova, Calif., June 10, 2022. A mistake on the pumps had gas selling for simply 69 cents a gallon.
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Szczecina informed KFSN he’s stressed the station owners will sue him for lost profits, exposing that his household produced a GoFundMe to attempt to repay them.

According to the automobile club AAA, across the country gas costs just recently reached $5 a gallon for the very first time.

Drivers in California are paying much greater rates for gas– approximately $6.43 per gallon– than the nationwide average.

Gas rates have actually escalated in the last couple of months, pinching the pockets of countless Americans who are having a hard time filling their tanks in the middle of inflation expenses.

More drivers are likewise poised to hit the road as the hectic summertime season gets underway, likewise contributing to increased gas rates,  analysts told ABC News.

Some experts have said that rates will go even higher in the months ahead. On May 15th, Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, told CNN he anticipates market prices will reach $4.50 a gallon in the next week to 10 days. He remembered that it may rise even higher in the following weeks.

“Oil prices are just getting swept up in the swift and sharp selloff across risk assets,” said Matt Smith, lead oil analyst Americas at Kpler.

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