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Top-rated U.S. Gasoline Retailers

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Results from EnergyPoint Research’s 2019 Customer Satisfaction Survey show Wawa to be the No. 1 rated gasoline retailer in the U.S.. The company also rated first in service quality, and in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.

Kum & Go rated No. 2 overall, first in convenience and ease overall, and first in the Midwest and Northwest. Sheetz and Kwik Trip rated No. 3 & 4 overall. Rounding our the Top 5 overall is QuikTrip, which also rated first in the Southwest. Continue reading “Top-rated U.S. Gasoline Retailers”

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Consumers Are Happier at the Pump Than You Might Think

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Listening to experts, one could be forgiven for assuming the traditional automobile and the lifestyle it supports are fast-approaching expiration. Hardly a day passes when a prognosticator of some sort doesn’t posit that the internal combustion engine—and the petroleum products that feed it—are officially passé.

If true, somebody forgot to tell the American consumer.

Assuming trends hold, 2017 will clinch the record for annual vehicle-miles traveled in the U.S.  This will mark the third consecutive year of record road travel, reversing declines stemming from the 2008 financial crises and the historically high petroleum prices that followed. Continue reading “Consumers Are Happier at the Pump Than You Might Think”