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airehead
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 Posted: 05/15/06 - 20:24 Post subject: Brand loyalty
If gas prices are the same at all the dealers in your area, do you have a brand that you prefer? Do you have a brand that you'll stay away from?
If gas prices vary by just a couple of cents, is there one you would go to even though it's higher?
Or do you just go where the product is cheap?
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purple hayes
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 20:38 Post subject:
The Kroger gas pump because I get $0.10 off / gallon with my Kroger plus card.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 20:44 Post subject:
I usually just go where it is cheapest!
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gretriever
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 20:52 Post subject:
Unless a station's been nailed for screwing around with the product (i.e., watering down the gas), I'll go to the cheapest. And here, with different tax rates in each county, there's a difference on one side of the street from the other.
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thegman
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 20:59 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | The Kroger gas pump because I get $0.10 off / gallon with my Kroger plus card. |
BP is teh suck around here.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 21:40 Post subject:
First choice is cheapest, which is an Exxon station. But if I'm not on that side of town, I usually hit the circle K by my house which is a couple cents more per gallon, but very convenient. I'm boycotting Chevron/Texaco.
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airehead
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 21:58 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Unless a station's been nailed for screwing around with the product (i.e., watering down the gas), I'll go to the cheapest. And here, with different tax rates in each county, there's a difference on one side of the street from the other. |
In a straight ten mile stretch of road between here and Yosemite the price varied by .23
That seems like a lot of variance to me.
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gretriever
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 22:01 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | | Unless a station's been nailed for screwing around with the product (i.e., watering down the gas), I'll go to the cheapest. And here, with different tax rates in each county, there's a difference on one side of the street from the other. |
In a straight ten mile stretch of road between here and Yosemite the price varied by .23
That seems like a lot of variance to me. |
With the number of taxing bodies in government (and bad as it is here, it's got to be nuts out there), that range really doesn't surprise me.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 22:23 Post subject:
If the cheapest gas is out of your normal driving "pattern", you might want to see how much you're spending in time and extra gasoline to save that $1.25 (assuming the gas is $0.05/gal cheaper and assuming you have a 25 gallon tank.)
I buy gas at the place that is closest to me when I need it.
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akern
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 22:29 Post subject:
I buy gas anywhere my husband will stop and pump it for me.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 22:33 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | I buy gas anywhere my husband will stop and pump it for me. |
Good job, professor, good job.
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Posted: 05/15/06 - 23:46 Post subject:
Speedway is usually the cheapest, I always buy mine there....
Plus I have a speed pass and get free stuff....
(I'm weird like that)
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 06:51 Post subject:
i get discounted gas if i buy it at the grocery store chain's gas station so i've been going there for most of the fill ups. i spend so much money on food and have a decent MPG that i consistently get 50 to 80 cents off per gallon every time i fill it. the trick is to drive the car till it's beyond E so you truly get a discounted full tank.
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TriBob
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 07:36 Post subject:
WaWa is the cheapest around here and even they vary by location.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 07:48 Post subject:
| TriBob wrote: | | WaWa is the cheapest around here and even they vary by location. |
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