Until very recently they were illegal in MA. That restriction was removed last year but not all stations have installed the latches.
So everybody in Jersey grabs lunch while their cars are being filled up. Great news for Tesla! People everywhere else shy away from electrics because it takes so long to get a charge, but that will seem completely normal for Jerseyites.
As long as someone from the power company comes out to plug it in for you.
I’m pretty sure the car explodes if you plug it yourself.
Only in New Jersey.
That sounds great. I live in Communist California where gas hasn’t been under $2.50 for decades.
This is retarded. You’re retarded.
I have seen no such ads. Maybe your state is full of retards so people need to be told this because they’re so retarded.
No, the power company explodes.
Or maybe New Jersey explodes.
Nah, my bank clearly shows my account balance and then right next to it, available balance. If there is any hold, the available balance turns into a link where I can see what holds there are and for how much. Any holds I’ve seen have only been on purchases for exact amounts, never for pre-authorizations. I have, a few times in my life, been down to $8 or so as my account balance. No problems.
Which would be awesome.
But hey, in any state, if you try to plug an electric charger in a gas-powered car, it’ll probably explode.
Fair is fair – if you fill the battery compartment of an electric car with gasoline, odds of an explosion are very good too.
This is why it takes a highly trained and skill technician to know the difference in States full of retards.
Out here in the Soviet of Washington - the western part, anyway - a goodly number of gas stations will give a discount for paying in cash. This usually is somewhere between 5¢ and 20¢ a gallon. Worth while going for!
That’s why I call them tards. It’s so much cleaner and the retards don’t object to it.
No it’s not. Not nearly.
Shut up, BigTard!! 
Your point about a $20 bill is generally correct, but…
I live in Communist California (San Diego), and my records indicate that i paid $2.41 for gas just about six weeks ago.
Gas was also well under $2.50 here for a while during the early stages of the global financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009.
It should be used affectionately, “You’re my little retard, aren’t you!? Yes, you are!”
Until someone tells them, that tard equals retard… After explaining what ‘equals’ means of course.
There is no such thing as a pre-authorization. There is sometimes an authorization before a capture (charge) and this is a function of the merchant, not the card issuer.
At gas stations, I usually see a $1 authorization for a couple days before the funds are captured for the total amount. At restaurants, I see an authorization for the amount of the meal for a couple days before the funds are captured for the total of meal plus tip. At hotels or resorts I’ve booked through a third party like Expedia, they ask me for a card for incidentals and usually authorize $100. Authorization exists because the final payment amount is unknown.
All of this is a function of the merchant and it makes not one bit of difference if I use a my Citi, BoA, Discover or Amex cards. I’m not sure why you’re so adamant that your Credit Union operates in an alternate reality, but let’s focus on the pay at the pump situation that started this conversation.
You pull up to a pump to purchase an undetermined quantity of gasoline. Before you begin pumping, the gas station wants to know that you have means of payment. You swipe your card. The gas station has to authorize your card for some dollar amount, and they don’t what the final sale will be. They can authorize for $1 which is obviously well under your purchase price or they can authorize for $50 which is probably more than your purchase price. They could conceivably authorize for a single penny, but they can’t authorize nothing. It’s not common, but I have seen $50 or $75 (when gas was $4/gallon) authorizations at pumps.
I promise you that this is the way it works. There is no way for the gas station to know what you’re going to put into your tank until the pump is turned off, so they have to authorize something before the final charge is processed. The authorization can’t possibly be for the exact purchase amount.
This guide for merchants titled Understanding Credit Card Pre-Authorizations seems to hold a different point of view. So does this one.
That said, I see no particular issue with the rest of your post, other than how it starts with some kind of futile debate about terminology.