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Rhiannon12866

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2. The cost of replacement sounds prohibitive for small locally owned businesses

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:47 AM

Apr 2018

And there have to be a lot of them, like the owner quoted in the article. This is going to put a lot of them out of business. And it's not like just any business could go in its place - there are gas stations in my area that have been simply abandoned - because the ground around the tanks is contaminated - what a mess!

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Out of order signs pop up at Vermont gas pumps [View all] Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 OP

This has happened where we are. Some stations closed up and have been left sprinkleeninow Apr 2018 #1

The cost of replacement sounds prohibitive for small locally owned businesses Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 #2

Yes, one has been sitting in our city for years, right on a main drag. Every time I drove by it sprinkleeninow Apr 2018 #3

I can think of three of them, offhand, that I see in my travels Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 #4

Feel Sorry for The Small Businesses modrepub Apr 2018 #8

Isn't trump just gonna reverse this w/an EO? alwaysinflux Apr 2018 #5

I'm sure he'd get Scott Pruitt right on it Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 #6

If they're more likely to leak, then they don't work perfectly fine. TheSmarterDog Apr 2018 #7

I know this regulation killed 2 gas stations in my old home town packman Apr 2018 #9