Sorry, sometimes you don’t get what pay for. Take gasoline,
for example, when you go to a station and pay for 10 gallons of gas, do
you get exactly 10 gallons? Well, you are supposed to; that’s why all
of the individual states have pump inspectors,“the Pump Police,” that periodically check the accuracy of the states’s gas pumps. We asked guys at BMW of OysterBay, NY, a factory-authorized BMW dealer, if the pump police ever find cheaters.
Well, in Michigan, they told us,one station near Detroit was accused of shorting its unsuspecting customers by as much as $100,000 in a year’s time. The inspectors quickly went to work and shut down the station. The owner, who pleaded guilty to intentionally “short measuring” (a felony), was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine and put on probation for 18 months. So it happens.
Well, in Michigan, they told us,one station near Detroit was accused of shorting its unsuspecting customers by as much as $100,000 in a year’s time. The inspectors quickly went to work and shut down the station. The owner, who pleaded guilty to intentionally “short measuring” (a felony), was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine and put on probation for 18 months. So it happens.
What do pump police do
In the state of Michigan, the pump police are 14 motor-fuelenforcement specialists employed by the state’s Department of Agriculture. They have the task of keeping tabs on the 13 million gallons of gas pumped every day in the state. They deal with two sets of laws. First, the Fast Track scam near Detroit was a violation of national pump-accuracy laws, called “weights and measures.”. Second, there are quality regulations concerning the properties of gasoline. The two most common ones are octane rating and water content. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com
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