Filling Station

With the expected proliferation of plug-in electric cars, the business of recharging them may come to look less like the filling-station model of paying at the pump and more like the way consumers pay for cellphone service. ❋ Mike Ramsey (2011)

Dallas: Fuel City Tacos This restaurant in an active gasbar scored a victory for filling-station taquerias everywhere in 2006, when Texas Monthly declared its Picadillo taco the best in the state. ❋ Katy McLaughlin (2011)

In addition to covering the marketing costs for distributors and filling-station owners, the oil giant is cutting credit-card fees and offering a cash refund for BP-branded fuel sold, according to the BP Amoco Marketers Association, an independent organization representing 10,000 BP stations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which earlier this year blocked a filling-station deal, said Thursday that it has identified competition issues with Caltex ' s proposed acquisition of Exxon ' s share of a jointly owned fuel terminal at the port of Gladstone in Queensland state. ❋ Ross Kelly (2010)

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which earlier this year blocked a filling-station deal, has invited comments from the market and will announce its final decision on Jan. 27. ❋ Unknown (2010)

America has more New York cabbies, Georgia filling-station proprietors and Oklahoma truck-stop waitresses than all of Western Europe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The same farm is described after industrialisation-the constant drain of money to pay for the petrol and the artificial manures; the coming of he salesman; the disappearance of provincial life; labour-saving and the consequent break-up of the family-the boys to the filling-station, the girls to the town. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But for me, I look on it as a big rap session, a stopping-place to make friends for the journey, a filling-station for inspiration, a respite to know you're not alone. ❋ Mirtika (2006)

Shortly before the filling-station landmark appeared the MINI sped past with a bad-tempered flash of headlights and he saw no more of it, so that was all right. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The filling-station operator said the driver looked like an albino ape with a little hat perched on his head. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

A filling-station operator saw a man in a rattletrap Cadillac convertible leaving the neighborhood. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

[Tonya] was [looking forward] to the orgy she was attending on the weekend. She enjoyed playing a submissive role and being the sex [group's] Filling Station. ❋ Eaton Holgoode (2014)

Me: *[goes] to Elkay EZH2O Wall Mounted Drinking Fountain and Hands Free Bottle Filling Station* You: *is [uncool]* ❋ Rocksleakingoutofyoursocks (2022)