| Show Service Station Small Business 1 The s serice station Is a prime example of a M tul energetic small amaH business There are more than In Jn this country according to toa toa toa a publication of the American American Ameri Amen can can Petroleum Institute and about 96 per cent are owned or operated by Independent businessmen I And the station station individually and collectively Is is a n areal areal real asset to the community and the nation The typical new one adds some 1 in wages and in locally locally local local- ly ty purchased materials each year to the economy of the area it serves Last year to total total total to- to tal sales sates by the stations passed 19 billion Each station as an unpaid tax collector is an important agent of government On the average it coll collects ets an estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated in federal and state gasoline taxes And of course the stations station's owner and operator is a taxpayer in his lis own right To depart from statistics every service station has the theother theother theother other basic characteristics of free ree enterprise It is intensely intense intense- ly y competitive and the competition competition com corn petition takes many forms forms- price rice the attractiveness of its ts facilities the special appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal of brand names the quality and scope of the sere services ices cea rendered the motorist |
