Pump charges before fuel flows

[98 softtail]

The thread about the gas pumps shutting off at a certain dollar limit got me thinking... Yes I now have a headache but you folks are worth the pain.

Have you ever noticed this while pumping your gas? You are standing there, pump handle in hand, you have inserted your card or prepayed and you are ready to start the fuel flowing into your tank, you pull on the lever and you watch the numbers on the pump start to fly. The only problem is the dollars and the gallons are increasing but for the first couple of seconds you don't feel any fuel flowing through the pump handle, then there it is, you can feel the gas flowing into your car. So my question is, eventhough it's only 30 or
40 cents before the fuel starts to flow, do we think that this is fair? Now not every stations pumps do this, the Hess near my house does not and that is why I try to buy my gas from here, but I have got gas from other stations that this is the case. They are inspected and have to start on 0.00 but I don't know if they inspect for this particular occurance.

The next time you are getting gas check to see if the gas starts flowing the same time the dollars start flowing.

Joe B.