By Steven Symes 
Recently, quite a few people on social media and beyond were shocked that a certain automotive site trashed Buc-ee’s as everything that’s supposedly wrong with America. These people innocently assume all automotive journalists love cars and car culture, but we know from sad experience that’s not true.
A member of Congress just slammed any effort by California to ban classic cars.
Some of our colleagues seem to hate cars and love bicycles as well public transportation, which is fine but makes their career choice suspect. Since we love all things cars, we also love Buc-ee’s and believe it to be a national treasure.
After all, it’s a gas station with a convenience store the size of a small Walmart. The sheer variety of products you can find in one of these beaver-themed stops is mind-boggling and a wonderful celebration of the spoils of capitalism.
Instead of the same old slurpy machine and Cheetos, plus those hot dogs we’re pretty sure will guarantee a stomach pumping later, Buc-ee’s gives travelers a plethora better options, including fresh produce, barbecue, fudge, tacos, and a dizzying array of baked goods.
Plus, we dare you to find a Buc-ee’s that’s dirty, with gross bathrooms like what you can find at so many other roadside stops. The workers are famously helpful and everything inside is always so well organized, the only challenge to finding what you crave is if you don’t know what that is, leaving you to wander the many aisles.
What’s more, Buc-ee’s pays its employees famously well. All the managers make six digits and even the entry-level people are getting more than what they’d be paid pretty much anywhere else. What’s not to love about that?
Currently at Bucees. Can confirm that the pay and benefits are still mind blowing. pic.twitter.com/sS1x1zxBby
— YIMBYLAND (@YIMBYLAND) April 17, 2023
Plus, people travel from all over to shop at Buc-ee’s locations. They’re an economic boon wherever they go, bringing plenty of tax revenue as well as employing hundreds of locals.
Since Buc-ee’s is a product of capitalism and not those competing, government-driven economic systems, our colleagues at other car sites who hate it and anyone else of a similar attitude can freely choose to not patronize any of the locations. That’s the beautiful thing about our economy: we have plenty of choices.
Love it or leave it, that’s the old saying about this beloved nation. We’ll keep our huge gas stations with a beaver mascot, and thank the Lord for our abundance.
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