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Travel dilemmas: A digital eye on your rental

Three colleagues. Three rental cars. One problem. That problem was gasoline, or rather the gyrations required to ensure compliance with rental car refueling rules. Often in touch with my inner conspiracy theorist, I began to sense a cabal, which is so much more interesting than business practices at the bottom of this. What I discovered in the course of my misguided inquiry, however, is a coming revolution in rental cars that may rock your world.

In the last month, three of us in the Travel section rented cars, two for short trips, one because

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