Peter Bennett wrote in
news.com:

One local marine fuel dock claims that if they were a land gas
station, the fuel company would shut them down because they don't sell
enough fuel - they certainly don't sell enough to get any sort of
"quantity discount".


That might be true in Daytona Beach with no access to the ocean, where the
pumps are just gas station pumps at the fuel docks. It's not true in port
cities, like Charleston, where the diesel guzzling fiberglass monsters take
aboard fuel hoses that look like fire hoses to fill those 3000 gallon tanks
to feed the beasts. There's no dollar meter on the big pumps because the
wheels would spin right off the shaft...(c; The gallon meters sure screw
up breathtakingly....

This week is Spoleto Festival in Charleston. The super cruisers will all
be here for a couple of weeks. The fuel tractor-tankers will be going to
the docks a "few times a day" as they're sucked dry.

The fuel docks will make a substantial profit at these prices......