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Computer glitch-spurred price war brings gas down to a few cents per gallon
Gas prices on one Toledo, Ohio, street dropped to a single penny when a computer glitch spurred a price war between two stations. A clerk at the Pilot Travel Center on Hagman in Toledo told WTOL-TV the 49-cent price about 2:30 a.m. Sunday was caused by a computer glitch, and the glitch continued to drive prices down to 19 cents by 4 a.m. The Circle K gas station across the street didn't experience a similar glitch, it simply dropped its price to 17 cents per gallon on purpose to compete with Pilot. The glitch-spurred price war went on for about three hours, with at least one person bearing a receipt showing a price ... (full story)