[Tagging] Self serve and full serve gas stations

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Wed Jun 10 18:13:28 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 13:02 -0500, John Eldredge wrote:
> From my experience in the USA, prepay is only available by going inside and 
> paying the clerk. If it turns out you didn't have enough room in your fuel 
> tank for the amount you prepaid for, you go inside a second time and get a 
> refund. The majority of self-service stations now require that you either 
> pay at the pump with a card, or come inside and prepay if you will be using 
> cash, because of people pumping fuel and then driving away without paying.

The only stations I know of that still do post-pay are RaceWay stations
(or it might have been RaceTrac, it's been a while) and those require
you to swipe a (store-issued) ID card at the pump first.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>




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