In France, they only seem to have automatic fuel pumps and they only accept local credit cards. They don't take cash and there is no staff to appeal to. As a foreign tourist (not even from the US) I had been reduced to begging the natives to fill up my car for me in return for cash and had been looked at like a bum (hobo, scammer). Oh well, I guess 'tat fiiil tiiiich zi roasbifs!' :)