Trump-promoted discount gas stations fuel a mystery and questions
President Donald Trump earlier this month praised a "very smart retailer" called the Freedom Fuel Network in the Philadelphia area for voluntarily lowering the price of gas to $3.47 a gallon, undercutting the state average by about 50 cents.
While the network lists 25 gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a review of public records found scant information about the Freedom Fuel Network, and industry analysts have raised doubts that the stations could profitably sell fuel at that price point, with one expert describing the business model as "jumping off a cliff."
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President Donald Trump earlier this month praised a “very smart retailer” called the Freedom Fuel Network in the Philadelphia area for voluntarily lowering the price of gas to $3.47 a gallon, undercutting the state average by about 50 cents.
While the network lists 25 gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a review of public records found scant information about the Freedom Fuel Network, and industry analysts have raised doubts that the stations could profitably sell fuel at that price point, with one expert describing the business model as “jumping off a cliff.”
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Republicans are buying votes
So nice to see MAGA embracing commuinism
Isn't this Socialism?
Magats wet dream π π π
just buy an ev vehicle at this point
VOTE BLUE. Remove the red blood soaked neo-communist maga republicans.
So we all gotta use one gas station in Philly now… we great enough yet?
that last 1 day for $3.47, now it went up to $3.57
Trump selling that gas
Govt ran grocery stores for the poors in NYC is communism and socialism, but secretive gas stations sponsored by the federal govt is what?
Temporary stickers on older Sunoco and no name independent stations with temporary taxpayer paid gas prices, another trick from maga and the worst administration ever
Did they raise the prices of all of their other goods? Cheap gas usually means more expensive items in the store
"FREEDOM FUEL" Now containing REAL gasoline. not owned the trump family but one of their many shady subsidiaries.
Is this some half-assed solution to the gasoline price problem or what? π
Remember the tankers that were 'seized' off Venezeula? Now we know what happened to the oil. By the way, this is a blatant attempt to buy votes, also if you believe that little donnie has nothing to do with this I feel sorry for you.
Where are all the anti-EV folks these days?
That price is still more than we were paying before he messed up the entire world
Itβs not from reduced margins, its from the national reserve. Gas stations are like groceries, they dont have that kind of margin. Heβs draining the reserve into Sunoco in the area, lying about it, and weβll have to backfill the reserve later. Screw trumpβ¦buy electric.
I want nothing to do with his war crime Gas, I'm assuming it's gonna come from stolen Lebanese land and it did come from stolen Venezuelan land
Loss leader. Well used marketing method.