Discounts for volume or cash....for fuel?

Very common almost every place / state nowadays. Laws changed and allow everyone to charge to recover the fees credit card companies charge the retail operation.

Bring lots of cash, you could make some small town police very happy. Google civil forfeiture for more information.

Many times they will have both prices, credit $ cash, posted.
I would not carry that much cash anywhere anymore because of theft or the reason Gordon gave - which is very real.

ivbinconned wrote:
In 2012 buying gas in Washington I asked and got a lower price when paying gas with cash.
Is this something that is common. Heading south in a week. Should we bring cash for fuel?

Interstingly I've been to many stations that have a cash and credit price and I just pull out my pen fed credit card, swipe it at the pump and end up getting the cash price and the penfed 5 percent discount.

Maybe I have been lucky, but I have yet to have the pump switch to the credit price.

And in every case the cash discount was less than the 5 percent cash back I got from penfed at the end of the month.

So, I just pull out the pen fed card.

ktmrfs, that cash back adds up over a year if you drive a gas guzzler.

We use that for taking the edge off rental car prices or sometimes even completely paying for a rental, like we plan on in AK this summer. :C

most, the difference was 3 cents per gallon,, my last trip 1,800 miles.(Gas engine) . 2 stations charged extra.
$410.00 total in Gas.

I do not like going inside and pay.. then go back inside for change.. and both times there is a line.. for lotto tickets and cigarettes, I do not use ether.

I have 2 credit cards.. One just for gas and stuff at gas stations, low limit.

Thanks gentlemen. Yes that running back in for change can be a pain.

And, out in our neck of the woods many stations post in large numbers the cash price and we never even see the little posted credit card price. I don't like to be fooled with marketing.

Every state varies. I know in NJ gas stations are allow to charge a different price for Credit Cards only if the price difference is posted. In some southeastern states that does not seem to be the case. There have been a few times in North and South Carolina when only one price was advertised, but at the pump it would charge more for credit card.

I haven't encountered a gas station in GA that charges extra for credit card, however at a lot of gas stations around here, they charge a lower rate for "club" members.

-Michael

Keep in mind in Indiana when you see the cash/credit prices for diesel that it is for the truck pumps and they do not get taxed at the pump, paying their fuel taxes separately. We encountered one Love's truck stop that would not allow us to fill at the truck pumps because of the tax issue. Point is, you see the advertised cash/credit price and think you are getting a decent deal and then get a big surprise at the pumps when they add tax. Sometimes their big roadside signs advertising fuel prices say "exempt trucks" but not all do and I doubt that most visitors know what that means.