Originally Posted by elCheapoDeluxe

Begging your pardon, but you are totally full of yourself. I've had the exact same thing happen to me at a Toronto gas station with a US credit card (except for the part about going to whine on the internet. I didn't do that part). It simply required me to go to the clerk to run my card inside instead of at the pump, an option also available to you at virtually every US gas station. While I'm sure it feels good to you for some reason to "blame Americans for making Canadians unwelcome", you're way off the mark.