Maryland @ Ogden (S)

While automobiles have become more popular in the United States, the need for service stations was improved. The techniques of mass production of automobiles implemented by Henry Ford allowed consumers to access cars at a reasonable price. The increase of car owners in a higher demand for service stations. The first station was built in 1907 by the company California Standard Oil (nowadays called ChevronTexaco)
actor participates in the commercialization of hydrocarbons. Founded by the state in the government of Yrigoyen, it soon expands and from the moment, dominates with 60% the local market. The decade of the 80 'saw disappear to a not very widespread mark and that had an important presence in the province of Good marks that was not present like so. In the Argentine market there are several types of service stations:

Branded service station: they are the most common to see, but these are sometimes divided into two; which is owned by the oil company and directly sold its production and the third by franchise contract, which is recycled or does not have time to receive fuel from major brands and sell them.
White flag service station: are the independent, which are not integrated with oil operators, nor are they linked through flagging contracts. In general, they are managed by independent small businesses that market the fuel under their own brand. In several cases, many have lost their flag and fantasy names in those that do not have, in some cases, in other cases or change completely in others.

Repsol service station in Maestro Rodrigo (Valencia)
In the Spanish market of retail distribution of fuels in service stations, several types of companies compete. The most common classification is the relationship it maintains with the wholesale operators that supply them, since it is conditioned to the form of management of the point of sale and therefore to its form of competition by the end customer or consumer

oil operators that involve the flagging of the installation with
White service station: They are independent, which are not integrated with oil operators, nor are they linked to it through flagging contracts. In general, they are managed by independent small businesses