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Article: Owner of the country's dearest petrol station 'struggling to make ends meet'
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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THE owner of Scotland's most expensive petrol station claimed
yesterday that his business was barely breaking even.
Although John MacKenzie, who owns the D & N MacKenzie petrol
station in Port Charlotte, Islay, admits his prices may be among the
highest in the country, he says he is tempted to shut up shop
because
he is struggling to make ends meet as a result of high costs and a
low turnover.
He said he had only kept the petrol station open as a service for
the islanders. Last week the petrol station was identified as the
most expensive in Scotland in a nationwide study by the Automobile
Association.
He was charging 85.9p for a litre of four star, 79.9p for a litre
of unleaded petrol and ...