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So you got about 55 liters for 90€. You don't know how lucky you are.
I'm impressed at your mathematical conversion.
Yes I do appreciate even though fuel prices are currently the highest they've ever been in history, they're still lower in USA than Europe. I am such a lucky girl. I was even luckier on September 7th 2020 at Murphy USA 7719 S Raeford Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28304 I encountered the lowest diesel price I've ever documented since owning this vehicle, at $1.94 per gallon. Yes I keep record of everything 😄
I'm curious to convert "$1.94 per gallon" to liters and Euros or Pounds but my brain has never done that before and I'm laying in bed cozy in my pajamas right now and do not feel like exerting my brain.
The pump had a $100 transaction limit.
Yeah this is pretty common. Last time gas went over $4 here a bunch of people driving oversized trucks and SUVs started groaning about not being able to fully fill their tanks thanks to the $100 limit
Really? 🤔 Hmm my estimate was I needed 15 gallons to top it off and it gave me 14 and my tank is full now 🤷🏼♀️
It's to prevent more than $100 theft.
In my region, you can preselect the transaction limit in $50 increments to $300.
How could we possibly steal fuel when we already presented our credit card? Fuel won't even begin pumping unless we scan our credit card first.
If you have notifications for transactions you'd see a 100 pending transaction. Then the moment you finish pumping it would be updated to actual value. At least Wise does this at Costco, either going above or below 100, haven't noticed it with other cards so it depends on not only the issuer but maybe the pump itself.
Come to think of it, your card issuer maybe doesn't allow for updating transactions after the fact, so perhaps that's why it stopped at 100? It sounds useful, except for getting fuel heh
your card issuer maybe doesn't allow for updating transactions after the fact,
In the USA, they all do, to allow for things like tips at restaurants. The initial payment is just a hold, then they adjust the value before finalizing it.
Why would a tip be charged after the rest of the bill? The top has to be a approved at the time of payment, otherwise the waiter could just add in whatever tip they felt like and update the charge. It's to allow for exactly this scenario, deposits on self-serve items or things like hotel rooms where there may be additional charges due to damage or mini-bar use etc.
Why would a tip be charged after the rest of the bill?
I'm not sure where you live, but in the USA at a restaurant, the server takes your card, runs it in the PoS system, brings it back to you along with a receipt, and then you hand-write the tip amount on the receipt. Some of them bring a portable payment terminal to you, but it's the same idea.
When they give the receipt back to you for you to write the tip, the payment has already been authorized. It's already been sent to your bank, in a pending state, and your bank has replied saying the transaction will be approved. One of the receipts will have an authorization ID/number from your bank.
When you write the tip, they enter that into their PoS to modify the transaction amount, and finalize the transaction.
otherwise the waiter could just add in whatever tip they felt like and update the charge
That can actually happen. A lot of the time, issues like that are accidental (eg they typo the tip amount).
That's a wild system. In Canada they bring the terminal to you, you put in the tip amount and then your card is charged all at once. Or at some places they'll bring you the bill and you can write in your tip, and then you take the bill up to a counter to pay. This only occurs in very small family restaurants usually though. Before chip and pin got popular they would still bring the bill and you would write in your tip, and then they'd take the bill and your card back and charge it all at once. Why would they take your card before you write in the tip, that doesn't even make sense and just creates an extra step.
Yeah, the USA is weird when it comes to banking and financial services.
Sounds like Canada is similar in Australia. At a lot of places in Australia, you pay when ordering. Sometimes you pay at the end. Aussies don't really do tips though, and prices must always include tax, so it's a lot simpler. Something on the menu is $20, you pay $20. That's it.
Yeah I've seen those, they usually approve for just $1. But that doesn't mean they shut off the pump after you pump one dollar or 100 dollars worth of fuel.
I know an old big red or Casey's when I see one! One of the few places not forcing ads down your throat at the pump.
It's a Sinclair station. Formerly Texaco.
I got fond memories of Texaco. Shame they went under.
If gas stations were smart they’d have a bell ring when you land on a whole number.
Then everyone would know how good you are at timing it, and people would talk at the pumps, and it wind become a whole community. They’d probably have to add some cozy chairs and outdoor furniture so people could sit and watch the fueleruppers, and they’d gossip. The gas stations could sell coffee and treats to the people too, because they’d be there so long. Maybe they could show movies and people would drive up from all over so the kids could watch them while they watched the pumpers. Actually, that would be perfect for those little triangle sandwiches line they serve after church. Finally people would be able to slow down and enjoy the cross sectional slice of life that would expose them to. Strangers. Friends. Enemies. Friends. I bet if we All lived this way we could work less too. Imagine it’s Tuesday August 7th at 3:32 PM, you’re just sitting enjoying the sun, the bell rings and you clap, you walk over to the pump and it’s a young man. He just got married to his beau, they met while reaching for the same windshield squeegee as kids while their parents listened to for the gas bell. His name is James, hers is Stacey. She’s a Virgo. You put your arm around the man’s shoulders and tell him tales of you hitting the gas timing bell and you both laugh. You invite them to watch the movie Bridge on the river Kwai. 6 months later they have their first child. Is a boy. They ask you to be his godparent. You’re ecstatic, you stand up from your lawn furniture and announce to the group that James snd Stacey have asked you to be god parents, and they all cheer (even though it’s February there’s still a crowd). You have the god parenting ceremony and say the god parent vow at the pump. Then you and James both take a handle on opposite sides of the same pump unit. In solidarity you pour out the gas, counting up the cents until you both stop. There’s a soft thunk and the familiar bell rings, the crowd cheers and throws their ham and white cheese sandwiches into the air. Seagulls swoop and catch the sandwiches so there’s no litter. And at that moment you feel in your heart of hearts that you’re safe, with your people, and things will always be right.
That’s what they’re taking from you by not having a bell.
I never try to land on a whole number, I always aim for multiples. Like 22.22 or 55.55. usually if I miss it I'll shrug it off but sometimes my brain goes extra autistic and I go for the next multiple. Sometimes my brain lets me mix and match though, so if I miss 22.22 it'll accept 22.33 instead.
That’s some interesting political discourse there by the buttons.
I don't understand why so many people misspell Newsom as Newsome. I've seen it enough to the point where I wonder if a bunch of people are just trolling.
I mean it's not hard to understand, every word in English that ends in 'some' is spelled that way. Gruesome, twosome, loathsome, handsome... I can't think of a single one that drops the e, so why would people who may have only ever heard his name spoken know that it's spelled differently? Even people that have seen it written, their mind probably just fills in the pattern recognition from all the other words they're used to spelling.
By the buttons? Or the red premium area? The red premium area is pretty spicy, I didn't even notice it until a minute ago.
Pardon my contrariness, but I don't think spending $100 on fuel is all that satisfying.
At the supermarket I work at here in the UK, diesel prices are currently £1.879 per litre. That equates to $9.608 per US gallon.
And we're the cheapest in the area.
Also you can press buttons our pumps so they pump precisely the amount you want to spend, which makes this far less satisfying IMHO.
we're about about 165 JPY / liter which is roughly 0.77 GBP, but I don't know how much more reserve they will release or subsidy/cap they will implement. The median annual income is ¥3.84 million (not sure if that's net or gross, but I'd assume gross).
They were like £1.60 last week near Edinburgh. Guess it's just getting worse, good thing I haven't had to fill a car up with fuel... well ever actually.
Come on over to the EV side, my friend. We don't bite. And you won't have to sell plasma or a kidney or anything to be able to fuel your car.
I drive a diesel truck and I like to drive for hundreds of miles at a time without having to worry about being stranded in the middle of nowhere without an EV station. And money is no problem for me. And I'd hate sitting waiting a half hour to recharge my vehicle. That must suck.
Mine charges overnight while it's just sitting on the driveway, I plug it in then forget about it until morning.
On the rare occasion I've needed to charge up away from home, I park it at a fast charger then go and have a coffee or something. By the time I've had my coffee, it's easily full enough to continue. My in-car nav just routes me via charging stations when they're necessary, no thinking required. But, to be fair, our uses cases seem different, I can probably count the number of times I've had to drive more than a hundred miles in one day on one finger.
Well, the cool thing in the modern age is that there are far mare charging places now than there ever have been, so FAR less concern about being stranded.
I never have an issue finding chargers, even on cross country road trips. There are still a handful of extremely low population, isolated places in the US that don't have enough chargers, but it's not an issue today in the overwhelming majority of the country. A little bit of research (including the free EV route planning site A Better Route Planner) will tell you what's going on with Level 3 (fastest) chargers on the routes you drive.
And also, road trips are the only place I'm ever waiting on my car to charge anyway. And it's 20 minutes every 250 miles or so. Not a big deal, I had to use the restroom by then and grab a drink or a snack regardless.
99% of the time I'm charging my car, I'm not waiting on it. I have a cheap slow charger at work that can fill my entire battery (again, approx 250 miles of driving range) for about 6 bucks, while I'm busy in the office anyway. The once a week I need to charge, I plug it in when I get there, work my day, unplug it, and drive home. Other people with houses tend to just charge their cars on cheap night-rate power there overnight.
So I definitely encourage you to look into it! If fuel costs get to be too much, a cheaper used EV can definitely be an escape hatch for probably 90%+ of people.
You definitely encourage me to look into it? I have no desire to buy a new car. I am madly in love with the one I have, and even better that it was built right before all the new vehicles are filled with spyware & require subscriptions for everything. I love my diesel truck and I'm going to drive it into the ground. You'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands gripping the steering wheel.
So annoying. The pump at the gas station I prefer cuts off at $75 which means I never get a full tank (because I put it off into it's close to empty)
You can usually just replace the nozzle, then lift it again and continue pumping.