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Show PlansOutlined for Gas Station Operators Archie S. Hurst, Director of the ; Division of Food and Consumer Services for the Utah Department of Agriculture, announces that regulations have been adopted on a temporary basis to allow service : station operators to sell gasoline on a half-priced gallon basis when the price of gasoline reaches $1.00 or more per gallon. At the present time 98 percent of all retail gasoline dispensing devices in Utah are incapable of registering an amount in excess of 99.9 cents, according ac-cording to Edison Stephens, Supervisor Super-visor of the Weights and Measures Section for the Division. As a result, gasoline station operators have three alternatives for dispensing gasoline: 1. Full price per gallon. 2. Half pricing the gallon. 3. Full price per liter. The parts or conversion kits necessary to convert the dispensing devices to full price per gallon or price per liter are not readily available to service station opeators because of the nationwide demand for such equipment. Therefore, this necessitates converting pumps to sell gasoline on a half-priced gallon basis. As a result of the change to the half-priced half-priced gallon, the consumer can expec t to see the following changes on gasoline dispensing devices: 1. The unit price indicator on the dispensing device will be changed to ; reflect the price per one-half gallon by affixing a label immediately following the unit price indicator which states that the price specified is "per "z gallon". : 2. Immediately below the unit price : indicator there will be a label affixed : specifying the price per whole gallon. ; 3. The price per gallon declaration : on the pump must be numerically : even in terms of tenths of one cent : value. Example: 2-10, 4-10, 6-10, 8-10. Immediately following the total j price indicator on the dispensing ' device there will be a label affixed : indicating that the figure shown is : total price." The provisions of this regulation will be in etfect until August 1, 1980. At tUnf tin., nil : T T U m..i I mat time all pumps in Utah must be capable of registering either full price per gallon or price per liter, and full total selling price. The National Conference of Weights and Measures recently recommended that by 1982 all gasoline be dispensed by the liter instead of the gallon. ' Converting to liter sales is more economical than changing to register $1.00 per gallon sales. Conservative cost estimates for Utah are $845,000.00 for liter conversion as compared to $3,900,000.00 for $1.00 per gallon capability. If consumers have any questions or problems in this area, it is recommended recom-mended that they contact the Weights and Measures Section of the Utah Department of Agriculture. |