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0 pointsmaccard8mo ago0 comments

That’s how it works if I choose “pay at cashier” - if I walk up and don’t have the money the fuel is already in my car.

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Where? In the U.S.? Whenever I have paid for gas with cash or from the cashier, I pay for it in advance, “Give me $10 of regular unleaded!”

maccardOP8mo ago

I think “everywhere in the world except the US” is probably right. I live in a major city in the UK and did it last week.

vharuck8mo ago

Before the 2008 Great Recession, most gas stations around me allowed people to pump then pay cash. After some stories of people driving off without paying, the stations changed their policies.

frosted-flakes8mo ago

Many service stations in Canada still operate this way.

seszett8mo ago

It also works like that at manned stations in France, but there are few.

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