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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by cindyabs
(Post 6906294)
I want to know why my debit card will swipe in some machines and not others. Some of them have to swip it bottom to top, or put a plastic bag on it etc and some places can whip it through like green corn goes through the new maid. :confused:
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by neil
(Post 6906160)
It is NJ law. I'm not complaining - I hate it when I travel now and have to do it myself.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by tamms_1965
(Post 6906323)
when you swipe the card through the reader, the magnetized particles in its stripe generate a signal with "ticks" in it at intervals that the machine is able to interpret as digital ones or zeros. A scratch or other defect in the magnetic stripe can cause a spike (i.e., brief fluctuation) in the signal that a too-sensitive reader will interpret as a tick, meaning that the encoded data will fail the parity check (the numbers won't add up right) and the card won't work. Wrapping the card in plastic increases the distance between the read head and the magnetic stripe, thus reducing the strength and crispness of the signal and smoothing out anomalous fluctuations.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Just filled up again @ $2.44. Cheapest here since oooh ages ago :) I'm off up to NC this weekend. I bet it's more there, it usually is.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by Brit3964
(Post 6907443)
Just filled up again @ $2.44. Cheapest here since oooh ages ago :) I'm off up to NC this weekend. I bet it's more there, it usually is.
Build your own, liquid bombmobil buy several red 5 gallon cans, fillem up, carry in trunk. Seems to be a stupid FL thing. |
Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by Brit3964
(Post 6907443)
Just filled up again @ $2.44. Cheapest here since oooh ages ago :) I'm off up to NC this weekend. I bet it's more there, it usually is.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by frrussre
(Post 6907479)
Build your own, liquid bombmobil
buy several red 5 gallon cans, fillem up, carry in trunk. Seems to be a stupid FL thing. hiya frank :) |
Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by TruBrit
(Post 6907484)
:blink:
hiya frank :) Reg. Frank R. |
Re: Price of gas update...
$2.14 last night at the station attached to Wal-Mart.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by Brit3964
(Post 6907443)
Just filled up again @ $2.44. Cheapest here since oooh ages ago :) I'm off up to NC this weekend. I bet it's more there, it usually is.
yep it is...I filled up yesterday for $2.79...(at costco) |
Re: Price of gas update...
Just got back from shopping and saw it at $2.13.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by tamms_1965
(Post 6910080)
Just got back from shopping and saw it at $2.13.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Sorry to say this (not really) but it is $2.03 at one station in my area, but most stations are at $2.11 this morning.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by tamms_1965
(Post 6914413)
Sorry to say this (not really) but it is $2.03 at one station in my area, but most stations are at $2.11 this morning.
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Re: Price of gas update...
Originally Posted by Janek66
(Post 6914415)
Perhaps I need to drive to Ohio to fill up?
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