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Subject: Re: Buying gasoline in Italy Posted on: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 06:33:56 +0200


"poldy" ha scritto nel messaggio
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> In article <0001HW.C41C414C001B3CA3B01AD9AF@news.cable.ntlworld.com>,
> Mike Lane wrote:
>
>> > There wasn't a machine that accepted anything 10 years ago. Even when
>> > there
>> > are
>> > they are some times out of order, even in the Netherlands. :o)
>>
>> It happened to me more recently than that. 2 years ago in a small town in
>> France we were stuck overnight having got too low on petrol. We had cash
>> and
>> several credit and debit cards from different banks. None of our cards
>> worked
>> in any of the automatic pumps in the town. It was after 5.00 pm and none
>> of
>> the pumps were manned, so we couldn't use cash either.
>
> I thought that was an issue more for Americans, because our credit cards
> don't have the chips in them.
>
> What do they call chips in Italian?

they call them CHIPS