• Jackcooper
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    15 days ago

    Is 9.99 actually highest or is the OP unaware you can move a decimal point

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      15 days ago

      Some signs aren’t designed for it. Like they hav four slots for digital numbers and a physical “.” Painted on the signed between the first and second display. Not just a single display that shows “#.###”

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        14 days ago

        I believe some are also digital, but use, as you said, a fixed decimal place on the road sign, so, in order to show 10.00, yould not only have to shift/ paint over the fixed decimal, the systems would have to be adjusted to $1, which no station owner wants.

        (Dont tell trump - hed just try that and say he reduced the price of gas)

      • Jackcooper
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        14 days ago

        There was a time we thought gas wouldn’t go over a dollar a gallon, or in Canada over a dollar a litre and yet we’ve adjusted

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      14 days ago

      Are you claiming there’s numbers above 9? Next you’re going to tell me birds a real…