Maggie David Haynes

I think, since everyone basically ignores the .9¢/Gal at the end of gasoline prices, the gas stations are playing a mind game in which they charge a practically-unadvertized extra 10 to 20 cents on a full tank of gas. Fractional cents per gallon may have made sense when the price was well under $1/Gal, but these days it's just taking advantage of people. To remedy this, gasoline prices should be required to have no more than 3 significant figures.

If a sign displaying a gasoline price is only capable of displaying a price ending with a 9/10¢, that part of the sign should be disabled or covered. Alternatively, if the actual price is a whole number of cents per gallon, but the sign displays that price plus 9/10¢, this should be considered an allowable discrepancy, as it favors the consumer.

If fuel prices drop such that they are again under $1/Gal, or are sold by a smaller volume unit such as the Liter which is priced less than $1, then prices may include tenths of cents, as that would only be three significant figures. On the other hand, if prices continue to rise and surpass $10/Gal, then the limitation of three significant figures would mean prices must end in a multiple of 10¢.

Remember that timeline where Sinbad played a genie in a movie called Shazam? I wonder what that timeline is up to these days. Did they do better handling the coronavirus? Did they avoid the hard right swerve of American politics? Maybe they don't even have fake computer money…