“If I pay real estate taxes here, they (other filling stations) pay real estate taxes. Sometimes the filling stations can put air in the tank,” says Ernest Duo, a motorcyclist, GSA Road in Paynesville. Their main customers are motorcyclists, who favor the variety of offers—including quarter gallon or “Musa”—that filling stations do not offer. Most can boys sell gasoline L$310, LD$15 more than the regular pump price of L$295. Individual can boys do not have sufficient money to buy in from the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company or big petroleum dealers so they purchase from mini filling stations or from the registered filling stations.

Source: Front Page Africa January 18, 2017 03:05 UTC