1.5 $cent

Edmonton is an oil oriented town. So if some where in the world there is a anomality in the oil-price Edmontionians share it. Hence the small town/village of Genderen became world news in Edmonton because of a 1.5 $cent per litre gas price. It made the Edmonton Sun. Its a small world after all.

Mon, February 9, 2009 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1-cent gas in Dutch town

AMSTERDAM — Nighttime was the right time to get tanked Friday in the Dutch town of Genderen.

An unmanned gas station began offering customers gas for 1 euro cent per litre, or about 1.5 cents Cdn per litre, due to a software glitch that occurred around midnight.

That was a discount of more than 99%.

“Most people were home in bed, so it could have been worse,” Piet-Hein Bogaers, director of the company that operates the station, Vollenhoven Olie BV, said Monday.

As word of the deal spread, business boomed at the station, 100 kilometres southeast of Amsterdam.Bogaers said that, by the time the mistake was fixed Saturday morning, customers were lined up to buy gas. Many had even called to alert the company.

“They were saying, ‘This can’t be right,’ ” he said.

It wasn’t. Bogaers declined to say how much money Vollenhoven lost but hundreds of litres were sold at the discounted price.

“I guess we can consider it good publicity, even if it wasn’t intentional,” he said.