> When you swipe a card at a gas station, they often run a $50 authorization hold on your account.

Safeway gas stations upgraded their pumps to have tap-to-pay.

But with increasing gas prices (and not getting into that), they upped the auth hold to up to $125.

Except many card issuers limit contactless payments to $100... rendering tap to pay useless on the pump because it'll deny the preauth and require chip insertion.