When we first arrived in Chad over ten years ago, there were a few gas stations in the capital where we would fill up, and one of them never had gas. Most of the local people who drove cars or motorcycles went to little stands by the road. There were little tables, like this one pictured, with a few recycled alcohol bottles or jugs that they used for holding fuel.
In the village, we only had really one option for getting gas. There was a man who would sell it, usually by the barrel, and his son would filter the gas through an old tee-shirt as it went into our tank. This worked out well for the most part.

But a lot of things have changed in the past few years. Not only does this village have cell towers and intermittent electricity (which they had none of ten years ago), but they now have their first fully operational, modern gas station! You can even go inside and buy a candy bar:)!