Shell

Be very careful at this gas station. I just pumped gas here. The pump was very slow, so I stopped at 3 gallons. When I got in the car, my gage still read 8 miles until empty. It pumped no gas in my car. I told the attendant, and he said there was nothing he could do. He did not even ask which pump. I said come look, I’ll show you. He pretty much told me to get lost. I had to go fill up at the next gas station. My gas gage works perfectly.

When stopping to fill up with gas,
The goal is to quickly amass
Cheap fuel in your tank.
To be very frank,
Slow pumps are a pain in the ass.
How does one review a service station? Unlike clothes and accessory shopping for fashionable ladies, wandering around Fry’s for geeks, or browsing through a bookstore for a literary maven, there is nothing intrinsically pleasing about filling up with gas (unless you love the smell of petroleum distillates on your hands).
In a similar fashion to convenience stores and fast food joints, the ultimate goal is to get in and out as fast as possible whilst minimizing the monetary impact (rather like a cheap and easy date).
With oil prices flirting with $ 100/​bbl, cost benefit is a very relative concept when it comes to gasoline marketing. Service station margins are very small (the big profits are made in the upstream part of the business). The biggest differences you see in prices are typically due to location, with the stations next to the highways and airports being the most expensive. This Shell station is back in the neighborhood sufficiently to be RELATIVELY cheap compared to other locations in town.
Lady Shell near Dairy Ashford and Memorial consistently provides the quickie I need when I fill ‘er up:
* When panic buying due to an incoming hurricane starts up, this station continues to pump gas when the others around it close.
* Shell and BP support proactive measures for global warming (unlike Exxon), giving you a socially conscious, geopolitical reason to be a Shell patron. BP is currently paying all sorts of fines for tragically bad behavior in Alaska and Texas City — another reason to move to Shell.
* Their pump pressure is high, facilitating a faster fill up.
* They have a car wash that does the trick when you don’t want to spend the time and money across the street at Bubbles.
* They help protect the criminal misuse of your credit card by asking you to input your zip code when you use it.
* The vapor retention devices on their nozzles do their job well and you don’t have to position that sheathed spout «just so» to start the flow.
* The squeegees are well-​maintained so that you can drive out with a sparklingly clean windshield.
* It’s the neighborhood’s choice and a great social networking facilitator. There always seems to be a friend around with whom to chat as I pump away.
Disclosure: Besides being a chatty pumper, I’m a Shell employee. I receive my paycheck from Shell as an an engineer in the exploration and production side of the business. Regardless, for the reasons already mentioned, I’d be a patron of this place.