Georgia Gas Station Owner Gives Back To His Community By Lowering Gas Prices To $1.99

Car owners in a Georgia city got a pleasant surprise from a gas station owner on Independence Day.

On Monday, the A to Z Food Mart in Hinesville discounted their regular unleaded gas for a few hours charging $1.99 per gallon. The low price was available for individuals purchasing gasoline with cash or a Chevron credit card. However, if motorists didn’t have cash on hand, they were able to buy the gas for $2.09 per gallon with other debit and credit cards.

The discount lasted for only three hours and had cars lined up for more than a mile to take advantage of the deal.

Many buyers thought the price was too good to be true, but it wasn’t. Liberty County native, Victoria Smith, said that initially, she hesitated to buy the gas, asking herself, “Is this a scam?” According to the station’s owner, Ravi Patel, the deal was not a scam at all.

“We just want to give back to the community,” Patel says. “Just because the community makes us what we are here as a family. We all came from India to make a better life for ourselves, which is what we need to do to give back to the community.”

Patel says regular unleaded gas typically costs him $3.85 per gallon. This means he lost roughly $1.86 for every gallon pumped. Patel estimated 5,000 gallons worth of gasoline was sold within the three hours, so he probably lost $12,000 during the timeframe. Nevertheless, Patel says seeing the reaction on his customer’s faces was well worth it.

“I was sleeping one time,” he added. “Woke up, I was like, ‘Man, I need to do something to give back to the community.’ And I was like, “What can I do to ease the burden on everyone’s wallet?’ The first thing that came to my head is gas. And I talked to my brother as well, and he was like, ‘We should put the fuel down,’ so that’s what we did.”