{"id":701,"date":"2005-07-11T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=701"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"lukoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/lukoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukoil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day we were driving and I saw a Lukoil gas station. Lukoil? Who the heck is that? I didn’t think much of it.<\/p>\n

Then saw another.<\/p>\n

And another.<\/p>\n

They were popping up everywhere, seemingly overnight! It started to get really weird.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned it to Michael, he speculated that they were the big Russian company, and that they seemed to be replacing the Mobils.<\/p>\n

So this morning when I got up I had a little talk with Dr. Google.<\/p>\n

Michael’s speculations were absolutely correct.<\/p>\n

Lukoil Replaces Mobil Stations in Philadelphia Area<\/a><\/p>\n

Red-and-white gas stations are popping up everywhere, displacing one of America’s most familiar brand names in the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The Russian company has already converted about 80 Mobil stations in the area and is remodeling nine a week at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece. <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Last year, Lukoil bought more than 750 Mobil stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania from ConocoPhillips for $266 million. The stations had been cut loose from Exxon Mobil Corp. in 2000 to satisify antitrust concerns. <\/p>\n

Lukoil does not own all the sites. It supplies about 470 under contract with independent dealers. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One day we were driving and I saw a Lukoil gas station. Lukoil? Who the heck is that? I didn’t think much of it. Then saw another. And another. They were popping up everywhere, seemingly overnight! It started to get really weird. When I mentioned it to Michael, he speculated that they were the big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}