<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c4f25d5b-0535-4c85-a56f-e65a255b2c87/BC938992-7AE9-4FAF-9E7C-DFD6DFC7FE98/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html" href="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html" style="font-size: 11px;">wbztv.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html">he only thing worse than shelling out $30, $40 or $50 to fill up your tank, is finding out it would have been cheaper if you had enough cash on you. It's an issue that has touched a nerve lately on wbztv.com with several people posting on our <A href="http://wbztv.com/curious">curiosity page</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html">The difference at the pump can be just a few pennies or as much as 15 cents a gallon. "It bothers me when I don't have any cash on me," one woman told us. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html">"It's outrageous,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html">Outrageous to some, maybe, but illegal it is not. It all comes down to semantics. Under <A target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/140d-28a.htm">Massachusetts law</A>, stations can't make you pay extra for using a credit card, but they can give you a discount for cash</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/curious/gas.prices.cash.2.1189953.html">Consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky told us even though we use a debit card like cash, to retailers and to the law, debit and credit cards are the same thing. "Basically it's plastic," he said. "The merchant has to pay a fee to the bank to accept the card, so it's perfectly reasonable that the discount is not going to apply in that case." </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BC938992-7AE9-4FAF-9E7C-DFD6DFC7FE98/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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