Credit cards cut off gas purchases

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – So you’re at the gas station filling up your vehicle, and without warning the gas pump shuts off.

What? The tank isn’t full, and you know your credit card isn’t over its limit.

“Using my Visa card, I commonly hit a limit and I would be standing there scratching my head,” Shawn Bloomfield, who pumps premium gas into his SUV, said from his home in Allentown, Pa. “I would always assume it is the gas station setting a limit on how much gas I could purchase. It felt like a ration scenario.”


As the price of gasoline continues to rise, rules to prevent credit card fraud at the nation’s pumps are confusing consumers who just want a full tank of gas.

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