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0 pointsfastball5y ago0 comments

You don't think gas stations have an internet connection?

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I don’t think they require one to function. Gas stations, including ones where you pay at the pump, functioned fine without Internet before the Internet.

Dylan168075y ago

They used to require a phone line. Now they don't, because an internet connection replaced it, with similar reliability.

bluGill5y ago

Before internet they had a satellite connection, or a dedicated phone line.

fredophile5y ago

I don't recall any pay at the pump gas stations pre internet.

kube-system5y ago

Okay, then replace “internet” with “dial-up private network”.

fastballOP5y ago

How exactly does a pay-at-the-pump gas station function without internet?

jdeibele5y ago

You go inside and pay cash to the clerk who authorizes $20 of gas on pump #5.

I'm in Oregon where we (mostly) legally can't pump our own gas. There may be pumps that are like vending machines: they take cards or cash.

There are exceptions, like if you're in the rural areas (counties under 40,000 residents). They also changed it for a while during the early part of COVID.

I notice that the pumps still run the commercials on the pumps here. Probably cheaper to just build one model of pump even though Oregon and New Jersey but it would drive me crazy if I was pumping gas for a living.

fastballOP5y ago

> How exactly does a pay-at-the-pump gas station function without internet?

I realize that there are gas stations where you can't pay at the pump, but that's not the claim I was responding to in the PC.

Regardless, if you are using your credit card to pay for your gas (which I am certain you can do in Oregon gas stations), the gas station is utilizing internet in order to give you gas.

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ryandrake5y ago

I don’t think they require one to function. Gas stations, including ones where you pay at the pump, functioned fine without Internet before the Internet.

Dylan168075y ago

They used to require a phone line. Now they don't, because an internet connection replaced it, with similar reliability.

bluGill5y ago

Before internet they had a satellite connection, or a dedicated phone line.

fredophile5y ago

I don't recall any pay at the pump gas stations pre internet.

kube-system5y ago

Okay, then replace “internet” with “dial-up private network”.

fastballOP5y ago

How exactly does a pay-at-the-pump gas station function without internet?

jdeibele5y ago

You go inside and pay cash to the clerk who authorizes $20 of gas on pump #5.

I'm in Oregon where we (mostly) legally can't pump our own gas. There may be pumps that are like vending machines: they take cards or cash.

There are exceptions, like if you're in the rural areas (counties under 40,000 residents). They also changed it for a while during the early part of COVID.

fastballOP5y ago

> How exactly does a pay-at-the-pump gas station function without internet?

I realize that there are gas stations where you can't pay at the pump, but that's not the claim I was responding to in the PC.

Regardless, if you are using your credit card to pay for your gas (which I am certain you can do in Oregon gas stations), the gas station is utilizing internet in order to give you gas.

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