New this year, the Porter South TA location now offers hungry guests a fresh sandwich option. TravelCenters of America LLC (TA) has opened a Subway restaurant in Porter, Ind., on the south side of I-94. The Porter South TA is a new location added to the TA system earlier this year. It is an ancillary [...]
Wayne’s investment valued at more than $50 million. Wayne, a global innovator of fuel dispensers and technologies, has announced that it will deploy the new inOvationTV media platform at fuel retailer locations throughout the U.S. Developed in cooperation with Gas Station TV (GSTV), a national away-from-home television network at the pump, inOvationTV enables fuel retailers [...]
Despite MotoMart’s recent efforts, the city of Neenah, Wis., refused to repeal its ban on alcohol sales in convenience stores. The Neenah, Wis. Common Council turned down MotoMart’s request to repeal the city’s ban on c-store alcohol sales on Wednesday, Aug. 3. The Post Crescent Online reported that the Common Council voted 8-1 to deny [...]
One Wisconsin MotoMart store aims to change city regulations on alcohol sales. MotoMart is challenging alcohol laws in Neenah, Wis., that prohibit retailers that sell fuel from also offering customers alcohol, the PostCrescent Online reported. MotoMart argues that the current law is archaic, and that it puts the city’s convenience stores at a competitive disadvantage [...]
On Oct. 21, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA plans to allocate existing funds to assist the installation of 10,000 blender pumps across the country within the next five years, Ethanol Producer magazine reported. The initiative was one of many put forth by the USDA to further support the development, production and [...]
Exxon Mobil Corp. pledged $1 million at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to invest in the expansion of high impact, sustainable technologies that advance women economically in the developing world. The program is expected to directly benefit more than 13,500 people, with indirect benefits reaching more than 475,000 people in the next two years. The [...]
Lynn Elsenhans, Sunoco’s CEO, told analysts she hopes to expand the company’s profitable retail business by ramping up its convenience-store offerings, Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “An area of opportunity for us to unlock even more value out of our real estate is by changing our mind-set from a fuels retailer that also sells some convenience items, [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN After inching off a one-month low last week to $272.2 gallon, the U.S. retail gasoline average is poised to post its second straight weekly increase, following wholesale costs higher. The US price benchmark for gasoline, the Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending futures contract that trades on [...]
DTN DTN introduces DTN Fuel Buyer, a real-time market information service designed to support profitable fuel buying and reselling decisions. DTN Fuel Buyer provides instant access to supplier price messaging from DTN DataConnect, rack and spot price discovery as well as analysis, industry news, weather and market information-all located on one convenient screen. DTN Fuel [...]
Information and store management can be made simpler for c-store owners and petroleum retailers. DTN introduces DTN Fuel Buyer, a real-time market information service designed to support profitable fuel buying and reselling decisions. DTN Fuel Buyer provides instant access to supplier price messaging from DTN DataConnect, rack and spot price discovery as well as analysis, [...]
Fuel Rescue is a revolutionary new product for the underground storage tank industry that saves gallons and gallons of otherwise lost fuel product while protecting the environment. Fuel Rescue slips tightly over a fuel tank measuring stick and as the stick is pulled out of the tank, Fuel Rescue squeegees the fuel away from [...]
Just two days after Pilot won Federal Trade Commission approval to acquire rival Flying Jay on Wednesday, the company, now called Pilot Flying J, isn’t wasting anytime getting busy with acquisitions, divestments and restaurant plans. As of today, Pilot Flying J-an entity of more than 550 interstate travel centers and travel plazas in 43 states [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN The U.S. average price for regular grade gasoline sold at retail outlets dropped nearly 18 cents or 6% from a May 10 multi-month high at $2.905 a gallon to $2.728 gallon on Memorial Day, a time when retail prices have typically surged. The decline is less [...]
Lucky Deuces Casino and Truck Stop has signed a five year contract with FuelQuest Inc., a software services company for the global downstream energy industry. FuelQuest Fuel Center, FuelQuest’s outsourced fuel management service, will source, monitor, replenish, and reconcile retail motor fuel for Lucky Deuces’ growing establishment in Duson, La. Lucky Deuces’ goal is to [...]
Gulf Oil has announced its continued growth in Virginia by signing a branded distributor partnership with Anderson Oil Company. Anderson Oil will begin work immediately, rebranding more than two dozen motor fuel outlets in the Greater Fredericksburg and Richmond areas from Chevron, Texaco and Pure to the new Gulf “Sunrise” image. This is the first [...]