The gas-price mistake in Plainfield has been getting a lot of play all over the country:
A computer glitch in two pumps changed the price to two hundredths of a cent per gallon. A Shell corporate spokesperson told Eyewitness News customers bought 200 gallons at the low rate before a good samaritan reported the problem and the pumps were shut down.
The pump price should have been 2 dollars and 75 cents per gallon. But at the wrong price, the Shell station took in only 40 cents for 200 gallons. That's a loss of 550 dollars.
I wonder how many people not only filled up but also called buddies on their cell phones so they could get in on the bargain, too? Hey, just screwing the big oil companies the way they've been screwing us, right? No, screwing a hard-working retailer who doesn't make that much per gallon sold anyway. Theft is theft, and people who try to rationalize it are the worst thieves of all, because they're just making it obvious that they know they're wrong.
