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The Pros And Cons Of Gasoline

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Over the course of 112 years we have created over 168,000 gasoline stations nationwide supplying to the public, the first gasoline station was ready to go for the public back in 1905 in st Louis missouri. The U.S has been the number one consumer of gasoline taking in nearly 9.2 million barrels of gasoline per day day which is seriously insane, many people may ask where it all goes? But the reality is that the average american does not only consume tons of gas but we in fact travel more than we can imagine. The average male drives nearly 17,000 miles and the average female drives around 11,000 miles a year, of course this is just the average from feedback but there are plenty more miles that are driven on a daily

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