Buc-ee's convenience chain says "sorry"

A local convenience store chain that temporarily shut off its gas pumps and told customers they were plumb outta petrol apologized after the state attorney general's office investigated.

Rumors of a gas shortage swept through the Brazosport Area after local Buc-ee's convenience stores told customers they were out of gas but would be glad to sell them a 99-cent bag o' ice and an overpriced bottle of Diet Pepsi.

The rumors quickly produced long lines of cars at other gas outlets around the area because nothin' puts the fear of God into Brazosportians like the sight of a 4-wheel drive pickup in the driveway with a bone-dry gas tank.

Naturally, there were numerous complaints to the state AG's office.

Suddenly, the gas pumps at Buc-ee's were flowing again!

"Beaver" Aplin, the convenience chain's co-owner, told the local paper Thursday they didn't run out of gas but were "saving" it for the Labor Day Weekend. He said this in an official statement, so the local paper could not report what type of facial expression he might have been wearing when the aforementioned statement was stated.

Critics said the stores, whose logo features a buck-toothed beaver (not the beaver pictured above left), and which recently placed huge, oversized American flags on towering flagpoles outside its locations, was trying to increase its profit margin by witholding the gas.

There's no word yet whether Buc-ee's plans to change its current motto from "the fun store" to something more appropriate. May we suggest "the dumbass store"?
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[Buc-ees.com]