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Thanks for the explanation! I wonder what they would do if they caught someone dispensing only 3 gallons.
Probably nothing. I guess it's possible if you kept switching back and forth between pumping a gallon of premium and a gallon of regular on different pumps to try to steal a few dollars of higher grade, they can use it to give you a ticket, but I'm pretty sure they won't really care if you were just topping off a tank of gas with 3 gallons before a road trip.
I honestly don't know what one does if one runs out of gas down the road from a gas station and doesn't want to call AAA or similar. I assume that gas stations must keep a jerrycan or similar around that they'll let someone take with a deposit.
I definitely wouldn't want to be lugging more gallons by hand than would be necessary to get my car to the gas station.
You'd be amazed how many people learn the hard way that they first need to head to a separate store to buy a gas container, then head to the gas station. Most places could care less about keeping a container on premises because it is both a rare situation these days, and storage is at a premium in most stores. If you saw the back room or manager's office, you would see the floor-to-ceiling stacks of inventory (usually drinks or tobacco products).
Most gas stations will sell small gas cans for exactly this reason
Most expensive gas can on the planet ofc.