Do You Need a Gas Credit Card?
Contributed by Boo Roberts
What is a gas credit card?
A gas credit card is a credit card that you use to get gas. Your gas credit card could be from any of the major gas companies: Exxon, Shell, or Mobil. I think gas credit cards are becoming obsolete though, since a lot more people are using regular credit cards for everything, including gas, so that is eliminating the need for a separate gas credit card. I remember my parents (and practically all of my friend's parents too) had specific credit cards with a gas company logo on it.
Maybe it was from around the time of the gas shortage in the seventies. I remember that, too, waiting in long lines for forever to get gas. It was really hot and we didn't have air conditioning in our car. I think it was our wooden-sided station wagon, with the vinyl seats that made it tricky getting into when it had been parked in the sun for a while.
How do I get a gas credit card?
You get a gas credit card much the same way you do a normal bank card, by filling out an application. These applications do not come in the mail, so maybe you can actually apply in person at your local gas station. I don't know, I have never had the burning need to get a gas card. Heck, I don't even want to use that newer speed pass thing at the gas stations, I don't trust it. It seems too easy to accidentally wave it and end up buying gas for every other car parked in the gas portico with you.
