are being accused of charging a substantially higher price for drivers using their credit cards instead of cash to pay for fuel. costs "just" $4.89, but use your credit card, and you’re looking at a more than 40-percent increase to $6.95 a gallon.
Agents with the Department of Consumer Affairs are monitoring some 350 gas stations in Nassau County for excessive credit card charges. So far at least one Shell station in Valley Stream was hit with more than $3,000 in fines. For the most part, gas stations are able to set their own prices according to Kevin Beyer with the Long Island Gas Retailers Association.
Legally all gas stations have to post their cash and credit prices - and some stations even offer the same price for both. Advice from officials, as the consumer you can choose where to go - avoid places that charge exponentially more.