Hello Roger,   
      
   On Tue 2012-Jul-17 06:17, Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
      
      
    RW> YEah think we're gonna get the same here next week.  Weather folks   
    RW> said cooling off with chances of rain yesterday, but the bit of    
    RW> rain we got just made it hotter.  YEsterday morning i was making    
    RW> turn off the air conditioners and open windows noises, but not    
    RW> last night when we got back from running errands.   
      
   RN> We can't live without A/C in this climate.  It's too humid and yet   
   RN> we are still cooler here than where Roy lives.  (-:   
      
   Yeah I know, remember I've lived down there also .  Up here we're still   
   in the zone where it's essential, but now   
   and then it's nice to be able to get fresh air.   
      
      
    RW> We watch average gas prices, because there are certain places I'll    
    RW> stop to gas up, and others I won't, even though price is the same.   
      
   RN> And some places here, there are the independant owners still selling   
   RN> non-ethanol gas at about $3.40 per gallon.   
      
   YOu can't find much at all around here without the ethanol   
   additive.   
      
    RW> Some want to play touch screen games with their pumps that the old    
    RW> blind man can't decipher, and it's much easier at a place where I    
    RW> can both go in to pay, and pump.   
      
   RN> Yes, but that's optional, isn't it?  I mean you can still pay before   
   RN> you pump, can't you?   
      
   Right, but the tocuh screen sin't optional if that's what   
   they have to work the pump.  Even if you pay cash before you pump you still   
   ahve to interact with the pump.  IF it offers anything other than discreet   
   controls that are tactilely   
   apparent I won't patronize the business.   
      
    RW> IF we use the golly gee whiz cool touchscreen technology pumps she    
    RW> has to pump, and it takes us twice as long to gas up just because    
    RW> we have to get her out of the van, on the ground, etc.   
      
   RN> I haven't seen those.  Down here, you swipe your card and enter your   
   RN> pin number; then select the grade of gas you want.   
      
   Right but i"m not swiping a card, and many of those, even if you paid cash you   
   have to interact with it.  Kroger and a   
   couple of otehr places that offer the card at the pump still have actual   
   buttons to interact with the pump, but there are a few stations around here   
   that have gone to all flat panel   
   touch screens, whether swiping a card or not.  I try not to   
   patronize those places that have that, even if the price is   
   comparable because that means Kathy has to interact with the device at least   
   to get it started.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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