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8. Feel Sorry for The Small Businesses

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 05:56 AM

Apr 2018

but the cost of a cleanup is probably a LOT more than installing safer and newer tanks. My guess is if you have a leaking tank and it contaminates someone else well the owner won't be able to afford to remediate and will probably walk sticking the state with the bill. Unfortunately this is another instance when smaller businesses will have to get bigger to survive (see Sheetz and Wawa or some other big convenience store model).

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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