Often overlooked when pricing fuel is the location of the fuel station . A stop on the interstate highway may have cost the owners ten or even twenty times as much money as a location several miles away . Here on I-10 in Florida a 13 acre parcel for a truck stop just sold for 36 million . That cost will have to be paid back on every product sold . The newspaper said it will be a 40 million investment before they are done . just to service that debt will run 2.5 million per year . Fuel many times is cheaper away from