Card Lock Stations

sh410 wrote:
At the local card lock station, you don't get a receipt nor does the pump show how much the purchase was on the number of gallons you pumped.

You get a PDF file sent by email detailing every purchase. Location, time, date, type of fuel, grade of fuel, and other things I can't remember at the moment. And, besides, while I'm on vacation, I'd rather be sitting at home in the comfort of my own easy chair post-trip when I look at the final bill. It's better to get taken by ambulance to the local hospital and see doctors you're familiar with when you get that eminent heart attack, rather than right there at the pump 1,500 miles from home. :B :B :B

dave_smith wrote:
...RV'ing is clearly not a cheap activity so I just don't worry about saving a few cents per gallon - it's just not worth the hassle to drive around looking to save the equivalent of a bean burrito from Taco Bell on a tank of fuel...

Amen to THAT! I'm so spoiled now, that even when NOT in the motorhome, I get annoyed when I actually have to deal with a normal gas station with the other "John Q Public" and it's prepay silliness, etc. The price-difference-shoppers remind me of people who go to five different grocery stores to use various coupons and attend sales. The amount they save on canned foods is eaten up (pardon the pun) by fuel costs traipsing around town and the hassle of parking to "save" piddling amounts of money.

Even if I take on 100 gallons of diesel and pay an extra $10 (not that likely anyway) it's worth it to not have to cram in three credit cards, prepay, sit in line waiting for someone's abandoned car blocking the pump to get moved as they leisurely shop in the mart, or sit in line waiting behind six other RV's on a busy holiday weekend.