New York Desk

The Mobil station on the eastbound side of Grand Central Parkway in Queens ran out of regular gas just before 6 p.m. yesterday. “This is the first time we’ve run out completely,” a sales associate for Mobil, Michael Kao, said, though supply has dipped “really low” since the station began charging less than $3 a gallon for regular gas last Friday. The westbound station, however, still had more than 2,000 gallons left, and ample supplies of both special and super. The eastbound side sold much more regular gas than its neighbor did, Mr. Kao said, because it is on the way to the car rental agencies at La Guardia Airport, and “people fill up on regular before they return their cars. … Most of our customers that take regular are rental cars.”