2800 Since statutes permit auto rental companies to charge for extra services, so long as customers are given a choice of obtaining the same services elsewhere, a company's practice of providing customers with a choice of returning the car with a full tank of gas or paying three times the market price for gas used was not an unfair business practice.CitationSHVARTS v BUDGET (High Gas Prices) 81 CA4 1153 [See: B&PC 17200 etseq; CivC 1750 etseq, 1671, 1936; Podolsky v First Healthcare 50 CA4 632; Cel-Tech v LA Cellular 20 C4 163, T/AT 5/99; Lazar v Hertz 69 CA4 1494; Schnall v Hertz 78 CA4 1144, T/AT 4/00]
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