Gas Station

Almost everything you read or hear about electric vehicles (EVs) is wrong - either written by deep-pocket oil company cronies, narrow-minded media, others with an interest in maintaining our total reliance on an oil society, or writers stuck in the century-old legacy thinking of the gas tank fill-once-a-week car model. The electric car is not a general replacement for the long-ranging gas car. But it is an ideal improvement for the majority of regular commuters and local travelers who would never have to go to a gas station again.

City police have charged a 20-year-old man in the fatal beating of a 42-year-old man in a Northwest Baltimore gas station parking lot, officials said.  Police were called to the 3300 block of Garrison Blvd., in the Forest Park neighborhood, at about 8:45 p.m on Aug. 5 for a report of an intoxicated man being beaten by a young male with a "stick of nails," police said. When officers arrived, at the BP gas station, a crowd of people directed officers to the victim, who was unresponsive and taken to Sinai Hospital.  According to charging documents, Victor Asbell got into an argument with a group of males when one of them punched him in the head, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement.

The body found in woods behind a Dundalk gas station Saturday was that of 51-year-old Christopher Dietsch, who had no fixed address, Baltimore County Police said Monday. Dietsch was found dead behind the Exxon gas station in the 1300 block of Merritt Boulevard, near Gilman Road. His body appeared to have been in the woods for some time, police said. Dietsch's body was transported to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy. A cause of death had not been determined as of Monday afternoon, but police said they do not suspect foul play.

A former gas station employee from Glen Burnie was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 15 years in prison for taking naked pictures of three minors, according to a statement from the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. Justin M. Bowman, 26, pleaded guilty to taking pictures of three minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and then using a computer at S. Camp Meade Road Exxon in Linthicum, where he worked, to view and download the images last year, according to the plea agreement and statements in court.

An Essex woman was sentenced to life imprisonment Monday for supplying the handgun that was used to kill her brother-in-law, a Towson gas station owner, according to the state's attorney's office. Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bollinger sentenced Susan M. Datta, 53, for her role in the murder of William "Ray" Porter, who was shot to death at the Hess Gas Station on Joppa Road in Towson on March 1, 2010. Prosecutors say that Porter's wife, Karla Porter, had paid Walter Bishop to kill her husband.

An 18-year-old man dressed in women's clothes was fatally shot in the head at a gas station in East Baltimore early Saturday morning, according to police. Desean Bowman, of the 200 block of Ballou Court, was pumping gas shortly after 2 a.m. at the Exxon gas station at the corner of E. Fayette and N. Caroline streets, near the Douglass Homes neighborhood, when a female friend of his got out of the car he was fueling and went to the station's cashier window, police said. At the window, the girl was approached by an unknown man who identified himself as "Tay" and attempted to talk to her, police said.

A theft this month of 311 gallons of gasoline from a station in Baltimore is one in a series of similar incidents, according to the station's owner, who says people have been disabling pumps and allowing friends and relatives to fill their tanks for free Mehdi Rezakhan, who owns BP stations in Remington and East Baltimore, said each businesses has been hit once, and stations owned by friends have been taken several times, one for 1,800 gallons of...

I've got another annoyance that Dan Rodricks can add to his list ("Overpriced popcorn, O's early-season tease and other annoyances," April 26). It's when I go to the gas station to fill up and I see the price of $4.05 and 9/10 per gallon. Give me a break! Come on, already and lose the 9/10! Do they think we're all stupid? Why not just go $4.05 and 99/100 or $4.05 and 999/1000. Sheesh! The first gas station that I see that loses the 9/10ths of a cent will get all my business.

Someone fatally shot Terrence Joyner Sunday as he was walking with 15-year-old Donye Thompson through a Northeast Baltimore gas station parking lot. Police know this much - they and have it on tape. But while police don't know the assailant who killed Joyner, 42, they recognized Thompson and have charged him with attempting to kill an unknown person. He was seen on the video tape shooting back at the assailant, according to police. Detectives who work the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood where the shooting occurred have had “numerous, in excess of 15, encounters over the past four months” with Thompson, according to charging documents.