Oh My Goodness!!

I've done the math on waiting versus settling versus distance travelled versus the derivitive of slope under numerator squared, so if the line seems too long, I often try another place. But if I have a Costco card burning a hole in my pocket, that's a variable that changes my equation. :confused: :backtothechalkboard: ;) And our Costco yesterday was $3.79, but I was full. Then.

$3.91 on Saturday for me.

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Originally Posted by JediTricks

Honestly, that makes no sense to me when folks do that. If the proverbial "you" gets 10 gallons, it's a piddly savings over a $4 per gallon gas, it's $2.80 in your pocket, and how much gas and time did you burn to get it? Did you spend more than $2.80 on gas starting your car over and over, or sitting idling in the line? If you get paid $10 an hour, that $2.80 is roughly 20 minutes of your time that you could be using to work or enjoy with your kids or anything else than the aggravation of waiting in a long line you could have gotten closer to your house for only a little more. That's basically why I stopped hunting cheapest possible gas, I'll make an effort to find the cheapest convenient gasoline but I certainly won't go out of my way or be inconvenienced by the process any more than I absolutely have to - life is too short to save a couple bucks on a $50 tank.

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I agree with JediTricks.

Unfortunately, I have an $80-85 tank and get about 20 mpg. So I have adapted by curtailing my travel.

I notalgically remember the days when I could drive all over town to go toy hunting just to procrastinate. Am so busy now it might be fun - like a 4 hour mini-vacation.

But useless - for $10 Star Wars figures and $15 deluxe Transformers - and nothing I really want shipping anyway?

It was $3.83 for me today. There are some stations here where PREMIUM is close to under four bucks.

I just spent my twenty bucks gas allowance on $3.99/gal at Shell. First sub-four dollar per gallon sale for me in I don't know how many months!

I'm due for a fill-up (probably tomorrow), but I saw one of the oddest gas price signs: $3.89 for regular grade, $3.91 for mid-grade, and $4.03 for premium. Hmm. I can likely find $3.69, or lower? :D , here.

[edit] Got Costco's for $3.63 today; and of course, I chose the line that moved the slowest...

Price went down from $3.459 to $3.439, its been $3.339 for a few weeks.

$3.75 is what I saw last night.

Dropped 4 cents to $3.359

Fairly short lines at Costco, to get $3.339 per gallon.