Gas station

Modern gas station, Preem in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Not all gas stations are for cars only; this one in Stockholm, Sweden is for motor boats

A gas station, also known as a filling station, fueling station, service station or petrol station is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel.

The fuel is dispensed by a gas pump. Some of the different kinds of fuel are:

• Gasoline (petrol)
• Diesel
• CNG
• CGH₂
• HCNG
• LPG (GPL)
• LH₂
• Ethanol fuel (like E10, E85, E100)
• Biogas
• Biobutanol
• Biodiesel

Many gas stations have a convenience store close to the pumps, to make extra earnings. Some have tunnel car washs.

Gas Station Media

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  Pre-fabricated gas station, Culver City, California, US 1977

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  The world's first "filling station", the City Pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany

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  Modern gas station column. Russia

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  A Shell station near Lost Hills, California, US

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  An IndianOil filling station near Dera Bassi in Punjab, India

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  Hydrogen fueling nozzle

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  Station on the road from the Thai border to Siem Reap, Cambodia

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  An ENEOS filling station near Mount Fuji in Japan

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  A small independent filling station in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England

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  Royal Dutch Shell station in Feira de Santana, Brazil

Other websites

• Gasoline price comparisons at the Open Directory Project
• An interview with architectural historian Jim Draeger about the history of filling stations from Wisconsin Public Television Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Petroleum Equipment Institute
• Petrol station cost structure
• Gasoline Signs — Signs and logos of gas stations in the United States
• British Petrol Stations — Design & branding history of filling stations in Great Britain
• U.S. Department of Energy's Gas Price Watch Hotline Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine — A U.S. government site to report alleged gas price gouging in the United States
• Report: Economics of the Nova Scotia Gasoline Market Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Shell in the U.S.: Some basic truths about buying gas today Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine