Amazon Prime 20 cent/gallon discount

 
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John from PA

Still expensive

Only good at BP, AMPM, Still much cheaper at Costco or Sam's Club..

5C per Litre with Canadian Tire Card

gerrydrake wrote:

Only good at BP, AMPM, Still much cheaper at Costco or Sam's Club..

If you use a Canadian Tire Credit Card, in Canada, we get, we get 5C/liter or equal to 19C/US Gallon, 23C/Cdn Gallon.

This applies at Canadian Tire Gas Bars or PetroCanada stations across Canada. Generally a bit cheaper than Costco. We also get Petro Points from PetroCanada.

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DriveSmart 65, NUVI2555LMT, (NUVI350 is Now Retired)

Sadly

Even with the Friday discount, BP is significantly more expensive than many of the other service stations in my area.

BP Needs To Charge More . . .

. . . to pay down the fines assessed from the Deepwater Horizon debacle.

Costco price

Last week, I filled up at costco, regular, for $299.9 per gallon. Whose cheaper than that.?

Lost discount.

Gas discounts are great. Our local grocery chain (Hy-Vee) has a rewards program where you get gas discounts for certain purchases at the grocery store which accumulate. I have often accumulated rewards of $1.50 per gallon (or even more on a couple of occasions) for a gas purchase up to 20 gallons. The problem is if you don't use the rewards, they expire after 30 days from the time the purchase that generated the reward.

That never used to be a problem for me, but now, I keep forfeiting my reward credits because I don't purchase gas often enough. There are a couple of reasons for this ... 1) Age and declining health are reducing my opportunities to drive and travel as often as I used to. 2) My current vehicle, a Toyota hybrid, uses very little gas on the short in-town trips that I drive. When I do fill up, the Toyota Crown seldom takes over 10 to 12 gallons and sometimes I go for 3 to 4 months between fill-ups. During the summer I think I use more gas in my riding lawn mower than I do in my Crown (LOL)!

Oh!The joys of growing old!

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

my .02

gerrydrake wrote:

Last week, I filled up at costco, regular, for $299.9 per gallon. Whose cheaper than that.?

I don't know what "earnify" is and don't usually enroll for things like that.

As you say, I'd rather go to Costco, where it's normally less anyway, then use my 5% credit card, for another roughly 15 cents off per gallon, no gimmicks, deducted every month from statement.

Even the Costco Visa offers something like that, but I use our 5% gas card and have been for not sure how long, a decade.

My buddy hates Costco, and I tell him you're acting irrantionally. Too much DR. No different than long ago we may have had a favorite retailer that we hated. But as a shareholder and a member, Costco makes my life better. Just be careful because for some reason many members don't return shopping carts and they hit others' vehicles.

Thanks...

This is helpful info.

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RKF (Brookeville, MD) Garmin Nuvi 660, 360 & Street Pilot

The math of saving money

When I first got my driver license, I thought I was smarter than my dad for driving one town over so I could save 5 cents a gallon while filling up. Of course gas cost less than 40 cents a gallon back then, and cars got many fewer MPG, so the math was different, but now I look at that and think, my time, the gas I burned driving there and back, this really made little sense.

The breathless suggestion of the USA Today writer that this deal makes this a great time to get an Amazon Prime membership if you don't already have one is even more dubious.

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"141 could draw faster than he, but Irving was looking for 143..."

Good Old Days

I remember filling my 49 Cadillac for 3.00 and getting S&H green stamps. Oil was 15 cents a quart

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

new and used oil

johnm405 wrote:

I remember filling my 49 Cadillac for 3.00 and getting S&H green stamps. Oil was 15 cents a quart

I recall "new" oil in cardboard (?) cans with aluminum tops and bottoms. I also recall some "recycled" oil in glass jars where the oil had a green cast.

Age

minke wrote:
johnm405 wrote:

I remember filling my 49 Cadillac for 3.00 and getting S&H green stamps. Oil was 15 cents a quart

I recall "new" oil in cardboard (?) cans with aluminum tops and bottoms. I also recall some "recycled" oil in glass jars where the oil had a green cast.

We must be close to the same age. razz

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

Did you miss a

Did you miss a decimal?
maybe $2.99.9/gal

No

If you are talking about the 3.00 that was the total cost it was like $0.25.9 cents per gal

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

Although I live in PA I am

Although I live in PA I am within a mile of the state of Delaware. I drop down into Delaware and pay 20 to 40 cents a gallon less on average. Delaware's gasoline has less taxes per gallon than PA which is one of the highest in the country. For instance this past week, the closest station to home was $3.199, 3 miles away at a station in Delaware I paid $2.759, even cheaper than the Costco which is about 7 miles away.

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. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .

I only use Costco gas for

I only use Costco gas for years

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NickJr Nuvi 3597LMT

Hopefully

nickjr wrote:

I only use Costco gas for years

…you are fortunate to have a Costco within a reasonable distance. Friends always ask me why I don’t join Costco. There are two in my area, both about a 40 mile round trip. One has gas at $2.999 but I can get Exxon for $3.039 two miles from home. I do shop BJ’s, no gas available, but almost as good on other needs.

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John from PA

I've been traveling all over the US lately

Highest was 5.38.9 in calif on May 29th lowest was in TN at Sam's club 2.39.9 yesterday 5/5

Today in GA, looks like best price iss about 2.659

Oh well..

But I can recall my folks paying $0.12 and during a "gas war" it would get down to $0.05 / gallon.

Where'd those days get off to? But the cars were measured in gallons / mile then .. so you were stopping every few blocks to fuel

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Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!

Gas Buddy

Even though I'm a Prime member, there are no gas stations in this rural area that honor the Amazon discount.

IMO, it's hardly worth the effort to travel any distance to save a few cents. I do however use Gas Buddy to get the lowest price in my area. It's more on principal rather than actual savings though.