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This is a list of historic filling stations and service stations, including a few tire service stations which did not have gas pumps. Many of these in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The history of gasoline started around the invention of internal combustion engines suitable for use in transportation applications. The so-called Otto engines were developed in Germany during the last quarter of the 19th century. The fuel for these early engines was a relatively volatile hydrocarbon obtained from coal gas.
Pre-fabricated gas station, Culver City, California, US 1977 Filling station in Argos, Greece. A filling station (also known as a gas station or petrol station ) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel.
The station ultimately cost $20,000 – roughly four times the cost of the average filling station at the time. [2] The station opened in 1958 under Lindholm's name; it later became a Phillips 66 station. [3] Its construction was only a partial success for Wright, as his vision of the gas station as a social center never took hold. [4]
The company bought eight Exxon stations in the Winston-Salem area. [3] In 2001, a joint venture began between A.T. Williams and Amerada Hess, and the company was rebranded as WilcoHess. [4] At the time, Williams had 120 gas stations and 21 travel centers, and had expanded to Pennsylvania and Alabama. Hess had supplied Williams for 35 years.
American drivers had it rough back in 1981. The average price of gasoline spiked to $1.353 a gallon that year -- up from $1.221 in 1980 and more than double the price just three years earlier....
ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its industry.A direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the company traces its roots as far back as 1866 to the founding of the Vacuum Oil Company, which would become part of ExxonMobil through its own merger with Mobil during the 1930s.
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