Card Companies Are Filling Up At the Station
Margaret Webb Pressier reports for the Washington Post on how credit card companies are benefiting from the increased price of gasoline.
So a year ago, when gas prices averaged $1.87, banks involved in credit card processing made about $12.5 million a day on fees. Now, with prices averaging $2.75 nationally, the credit card companies are raking in $18.4 million a day. That is $183 million more a month, or nearly $2.2 billion dollars on an annual basis in extra money paid to the nation's banking giants just because of rising gasoline prices.
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