Things may become clearer if you study just how OpenLayers works with Google tiles. The Google API is loaded underneath the openlayers code, and used to display Google's tiles - as required by the terms of use. You can use the Gooogle API with or without a key, what service you get depends on that. Whether or not Openlayers sits on top doesn't affect that. You'd probably want to find out from Openlayers folk if the Google API is loaded when you provide the Google layer option, or when the option is actually selected. (as that will determine when the "billing counter" clicks)
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