The Glade 4.0

$50.00 to fill my gastank today.

I honestly think that is a first in my life. I don't yet own a large vehicle (SUV) nor have I in my life, so I have had comparably small gastanks.

My little Chevy Cavalier needed all 12 gallons for a fill and it stopped dead on $50.00.

GRRRRRR!

That is all.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

LOL @ $50.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Almost $20 to fill my motorcycle tank the other day

It's only a 13 litre tank!

What the hell, litre?

*shakes head and walks away&

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Pff, $50, ha! The pump caps out on price before my tank is full these days.

So you get the rest of it for free? Start carrying gas cans and fill those up, too.

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Or I don't get a full tank.

Heh, come to CA. Been spending upwards of $65 to fill up the minivan for years. Even my Subaru (15-gallon tank) needs over $50.

What's sad is that I'm old enough to remember 31-cent gas from the 60s. I clearly recollect looking out the window at a pump with the figure on it.

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So when you get to heaven
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Sounds about right.

Gas is ~$4.20 here right now.

LMAO! It takes more than twice that $50 to fill my tanks...two tanks, 35 gallons total! Since I don't drive my truck that much, though, those two filled tanks last me quite a while...unless I'm taking a road trip.

Oooooohhh...did someone say road trip??

Oh, and Aethien I remember seeing 25 cents per gallon when I was very young.

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Random aside...
Isn't seeing "unleaded" fuel at a gas station sort of an anachronism at this point? When was the last time leaded fuel was legal? Can't we just start saying "good, better, best" or something?

$3.65-$3.80 around here.

So you aren't allowed to fill up?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

some pumps cut at $50.00, usually so the gas station can charge a second fee to the CC company when you run a second transaction to finish getting gas.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I remember first running into that issue a couple summers back, quite a surprise. Although, I believe the CC companies charge the fee, and not the other way around. The station may charge you, though.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I think this was done, particularly in high risk areas, to help minimize loss from drive offs.

The few places that do it here, if you pay inside, there is no purchase limit.

That makes sense Midgen, although the limits I see now are $75-$100.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

A place around here caps the Credit Card limit at $20 (to fight drive-offs). I can use my ATM as a debit or credit, but I'd have to enter my PIN to use it as a debit card. Really don't like to put it in on some machine that may be stealing my numbers, so I just don't go there any more.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Costco cuts off at $100 here.

At $100, or at $99.99? I can see a reason for $99.99 (ran out of numbers), but if it will roll to $100, there is no technical reason for it not to go to $999.99.

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$100.00

That is an odd decision.

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Even if it can't scroll up to 9 in the hundreds column, which is ridiculous, I'm absolutely astounded that it won't go to 199.99.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

It doesn't have anything to do with the physical capabilities of the dial.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Legislated rationing?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20