Bavaria: A cultural history of refueling – Bavaria

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Hans Kratz

“Oh dear,” says Franziska Eltner, “that’s really never funny.” The rising petrol prices are also getting on her mind, “because many customers are just complaining, but it’s not our fault!” Together with her husband Rainer, she runs a small gas station in Altenthann (Regensburg district), one of the smallest in Bavaria. Is this business profitable at all? After all, she is 69 years old and her husband is already 74, and he also repairs this and that.

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