Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices
                   
usatoday.com: Chip Colville, owner of Colville's, Inc., checks the mechanical meters on a diesel fuel dispenser at his Chevron service station in Reardan, Wash. The meters on the 30 plus-year-old dispensers stop at $3.999 per gallon. usatoday.com
usatoday.com     May 17, 2008            

REARDAN, Wash. (AP) — Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials. As many as 8,500 of the nation's 170,000 service stations have old-style meters... [read full story]                

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