Software glitch leads to cheap gas in Dutch town

AMSTERDAM � Friday night was the right time to get tanked in the Dutch town of Genderen. An unmanned gas station began offering customers gas for 1 cent per liter (around $0.05 per gallon) � a discount of more than 99 percent � thanks to a software glitch in the machine, local paper Brabants Dagblad reported Monday.

As word of the deal spread, business boomed literally overnight at the station, 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Amsterdam.

"At first we thought that the price board was broken, but when it got really busy, we alerted" the station's operator, the paper quoted owner Marijke Thur as saying.

Operator Vollenhoven Olie BV, which leases the station from Thur, fixed the mistake Saturday morning. The company said its financial losses were "limited."