Originally Posted by
rosemont
One difference in legal system between the US and the EU is that in EU laws tells you what you can and can't do. In the US many of these would be decided by a court of law. By and large, US companies have been playing safe, except a few really greedy ones, in fear of catastrophic consequence if they loose. In reality, corporations got away from a lot of things until they were caught.
That's not actually true - the majority of contract law in the UK for example is set by precedent much the same as in the US and when things are put into statutory law it's almost always reactionary so in terms of people getting screwed over very similar.
Anyway contracts don't have to be fair, they just have to be legal. If you sign an agreement to return it with x amount of fuel I really can't see any court paying the slightest amount of attention. Your best bet if you don't like the system is to go elsewhere really... or complain to high hell, companies don't like bad press
