This might belong in GQ, but I’ll start here, since it isn’t very important, just my curiosity.
There is a Spirit gas station near our house.
Their prices are far above any of the other stations around, sometimes as much as $0.50.
The don’t sell anything else.
The gas isn’t higher octane than any other station.
The tankers that fill their storage tanks are the same ones that fill the cheap stations.
I very rarely see a car at their pumps.
Anyone know their story?
Shall we make some up? 
No, but am I the only one who thought the thread was going to be about ghostly farts?
A quick Google search on “Spirit gas station” yields several hits on Yelp and Foursquare where people comment on cheap gas prices at Spirit, so it suggests that high prices aren’t a corporate thing for them.
Money laundering? A front for a covert operation?
That’s what I thought, my boring husband says it probably has a corporate customer base.
Incorporeal toots?! Ahh, I see I was beaten to the punch, unfortunately.
Never heard of them.
It’s likely they make all their money off repairs, and the only reason they still sell gas at all is as a convenience to customers who want their tank filled at the same time.
Or, that’s what they WANT you to believe :dubious:
We have a couple gas stations that advertise that they don’t contain ethanol, and they’re about 30 or 40 cents a gallon higher.
StG
Is it full-service only? The premium then is for the privilege of having an attendant.
Nope, only gas, no garage. Theydon’t even sell soft drinks.
You pump it yourself.
The concept with selling 100% gas and using something other than alcohol (as an oxyginator) is that mileage will be increased enough to offset the cost increase. People burning E85 can probably attest to the lower mileage from alcohol.
I believe, in Washington state, gas is required to contain ethanol in the winter.
No, the Spirit in Wedgewood (and I think Ballard) are ethanol-free. There’s a small handful of places in the Puget Sound area that sell gas that way. This site lists 158 ethanol-free stations in Washington.
I regularly visit the Wedgewood location to fill up my motorcycle, especially this time of year when it doesn’t get used as much. It’s a European make, and is known for killing fuel pumps. There’s reasonable speculation on the boards that it’s the oxygenated fuel doing it, something apparently they don’t give a lot of consideration to in Austria.
“… I feel so… Funky…!” 
Thank you for fighting my ignorance.
The Wedgwood* location is the one I’m referring to. I swim at the Meadowbrook pool every day, so I notice it often.
Damnit! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. I even had it right before I went back and ‘fixed’ it.:mad: