The Conference's ongoing mission is to promote the development of uniform, effective State and local weights and measures laws that help maintain a fair marketplace and protect both consumers and businesses. Your State and local officials are responsible for enforcing the weights and measures laws. They use highly-accurate equipment to make sure that weighing and measuring devices, such as gasoline pumps and scales, are in fact giving proper measurement. They work to ensure that every commercial transaction involving weight or measure is fair and accurate. Throughout the millions of transactions that take place every day, your weights and measures officials help guarantee that you get what you pay for.
Many factors draw motorists to a gas station, and price is near the top of the list.
It may hold more or less than the stated capacity. Make sure it is the same as the price per gallon on the dispenser face for the grade and type of fuel. Multiply the indicated gallons delivered by the price per gallon to assure that the dispenser is correctly computing the price. If you make a credit card purchase, check to be sure you have been charged the correct amount and take your receipt with you. At full-service stations, observe attendants as they fill your tank or add liquids such as oil, transmission fluid, engine coolant to be sure they add the entire product.