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Going to the pump these days is bad enough, don’t you think? I have not heard of one person who is happy with the current gas prices. The greedy oil companies keep on pumping it out to us like we do not matter to them at all. And you cannot get them to even acknowledge that they are ripping us off. Congress does nothing about it. And NOW there is one more ripoff. Credit cards at the pump. HELP!
Have you been watching your receipts when you buy gas with a credit card? If not, you should. The credit card companies love to tack on a fee for use at the pump which they do…..but wait, it gets better..or worse….Now the gas stations are tacking on a fee for using the card. The price can be a lot higher than if you pay cash. WHAT? Yep. The price can be as high as *9* cents more, sometimes more than that. That was as high as I had seen it on the news today.
EDIT NOTE: As awful as the 9 cents might have sounded, it’s not compared to the 50 cents a gallon that some stations are charging simply for using a credit card instead of cash. If a person uses cash, they have to go inside where they can get ripped off by the prices of the goods in the store. There is no win here unless the person buys the gas with cash and refuses to buy anything else in the store.
It seems that the local gas station wants you to come inside to pay because if you don’t, you do not also buy other things. They have been losing money with the plastic. So, if you don’t pay with cash coming inside to do that, you can count on paying more at the pump. It’s sort of a penalty for having a credit card.
I call that a ripoff. It forces the customer to do things they did not want to do. On a purely physical note, if you need the exercise, go ahead and walk inside. Might do you some good. However, if you are just mad because they are making you do things you had no intention of doing, perhaps finding a new gas station to buy from might be in order. I do not believe that they all do this. But it looks like they do this in the bigger cities for certain.
We live in a rural area where we use a gas card from a well known retailer. We get a discount. But my husband watches to make certain we get that discount every time. If we don’t, the pump does not go on and he goes inside to find out why. In these times, you have to watch your every dollar going out. If you don’t, all of a sudden you are broke and it isn’t anywhere near the next paycheck time. We should know. 
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its funny how just a couple of years ago gas was little over 2 dollars! and these extra fees are indeed ripoffs!
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I agree totally. The word ripoff is as accurate as it gets. These people and oil companies are so greedy anymore, there is no likelihood of any of it coming back down to a reasonable level. Of course, who is going to tell us what “reasonable” really is. In my opinion, gas prices under a dollar are reasonable but I’m sure we won’t ever see that again. Too bad. I remember the time when it cost about a dollar to fill a tank.
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