Reply #71: Every Pump around where I live

[DJ MEW]

just says, "Select pay inside or slide card in to reader" You can't select debit or credit. If you do your other idea of going in and prepaying and using your debit card and entering your pin then you have the issue of your bank charge for using your debit card at a POS. Most banks have a conviency charge for use of a debit card, I think my banks fee is 25 cents per transaction but that is money that you don't get back ever.

And using cash isn't as simple as it sounds. With gas in my area at 2.69 a gallon filling a tank from empty costs me 30 dollars, I drive a Neon and the tank is only 11.5 gallons about. My Sister drives a Chevy truck and filling that costs 60 to fill. Who carries money like that around with them all the time.