Analysis: Margins coax retailers to build big, pricey travel centers

摘要

As gasoline demand declines, an upslope of diesel fuel demand thisdecade is prompting some of the highest volume gasoline retailers in thecountry to gamble with newly built, expensive travel centers.Because of the compelling fuel margins, some multistate marketersare unintimidated by travel center building costs three or four times theamount employed for typical convenience stores, OPIS figures suggest.