Thanks OB. I'll have to tell my wife of your purchase amounts. I try to tell her that even a candy bar at a Walmart on a card will count for, say, a single spend requirement. She feels that's unfair somehow. But she thought my 1 gallon purchases were funny rather than foul. :-) My technique, over the course of one very long day, was to do the small purchase first. Then pull out another active card and top off the tank. Then repeat an hour or so more down the interstate.

Glad to know I can repeat the process to avoid the $6/month fee. Would love to see it in my paperwork though--will have to look closer at the fine print on the promotion details I received in the mail.

I still want to open that business account. Please, someone, report if applying for the business account online is still broken half-way through. If they've fixed that, I'm willing to go through the grief again for the terrific bonus. Repeated secure emails of increasing pitch seems to do the trick.