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Ignoring regulations and using your influence to try to force governments to change regulations when they finally come calling.
How is that arbitrage? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbitrage
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When I was little and they were driving I used to fill gas. It was great fun using the credit card and everything else. Very sad to see "must be a licensed driver to pump gas" signs everywhere these days :(
When I was little you pulled into the gas station, and a teenage kid sprinted from the garage, pumped your gas, washed your windows, and checked your oil, took your payment, and you never had to leave your seat.
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I'd be a little angry if I worked at that company. What are they doing for the folks who don't drive in every day?
What about all of the things that are just at the company HQ? My big software company has a clinic, gym, cafe, etc. onsite, but we have remote employees. Same thing, right?
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Locking gas doors are pretty pointless these days, unless you're worried about someone giving you the sugar-in-the-gas-tank treatment. All cars made for the last several years have anti-siphoning measures built into the line to the gas tank.
1. Paint Yoshi sign on Truck so it looks like you're supposed to be there messing with the car's gas. 2. Use something like GasTapper (literally first google hit) on apparently uncrackable gas tanks. 3. Profit?
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> People here ain't gonna pay $15 to reclaim 40 minutes a month are there no hand car washes in st. louis? a full service carwash saves about 40 minutes of labor that you can use to catch up on work or other activities, and costs about 15 bucks. and how about a cheap lunch at the diner for 1 or 2? wouldn't that be about $15? and saves you about 40 minutes of prep, cook, and clean? $15 in a taxi cab or uber would save…
You're missing the point. Most people don't think through this. They stop at "That costs me $15. Not gonna do it."
I've never owned a car in a city as dense as SF or New York so maybe it's different in places like that, but this strikes me as yet another example of the "Uber-For-X" SV startup that doesn't solve any real problem. Stopping by the gas station once a week on my way home is simply not a big enough annoyance for me to subscribe to yet another service. I'm also skeptical of the long-term prospects of this business model…
Seriously. Is it really that painful to stop for gas like twice a month? Not to mention many people like to stop for gas for an excuse to grab a snack or drink.
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Agreed. What would be better is if they were full service and actually had good coffee that they'd bring to your window.
Hm, I like this idea. But our customers aren't usually at their cars while we're filling them up, so the coffee might often get cold
Having started driving in the age of 99¢/gal gas, I am highly sensitive to price differences between stations, and I choose between 3 stations that are always within 5¢ of each other. I am typically not so price sensitive (with other purchases), but with gas I make minor schedule/route deviations to save Having a service like this would save me some amount of time, I suspect that if I significantly relaxed my fueling…
You're still paying separately for the fuel. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment.
I've never owned a car in a city as dense as SF or New York so maybe it's different in places like that, but this strikes me as yet another example of the "Uber-For-X" SV startup that doesn't solve any real problem. Stopping by the gas station once a week on my way home is simply not a big enough annoyance for me to subscribe to yet another service. I'm also skeptical of the long-term prospects of this business model…
Seriously. Is it really that painful to stop for gas like twice a month? Not to mention many people like to stop for gas for an excuse to grab a snack or drink.
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I'm not even sure what you're saying.
Carbon being released into the atmosphere is believed to be one of the main contributors to rapid climate change. Gasoline is a liquid of hydrogen and carbon. When it is burned, the carbon and hydrogens are broken apart and the carbon joins with oxygen and is then typically allowed to escape in to the atmosphere. This service is hauling around, presumably large amounts of, gasoline, likely using a hydro-carbon burnin…
I want a pony. These numbers don't exist. Nobody computes them. If you want to try, knock yourself out.
Now remember that a car doesn't magically get gas from a gas station, it has to drive there, it has to drive back. If this service uses some algorithm to actually drive less to deliver gas than people would independently doing the same thing it could be carbon positive.
You'd have to run the numbers to find out.