National Payment Card has a new idea: People can register and use their driver’s licenses to pay for gas, saving up to 10 cents a gallon. Very clever, but the fact that NPC can offer rebates for consumers who use a different payment system is a reminder of that MasterCard and Visa are currently skimming off $6.6 billion from convenience stores alone — fees that are passed on to everyone who buys gas.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250546