Posted on 02/21/2012 8:45:57 AM PST by PRePublic
1. Track Prices Via Websites and Mobile Apps..
2. Inconvenience Yourself..
3. Fill Up at the Right Time... Urban legend says gas prices are lowest during hours when most folks are sleeping, from midnight to 5am. Laskoski debunks that myth, but says there is a best time to fill-up that most people wouldn't think of: Wednesday. Gas prices are highest on weekends when the most people are out on the road. Filling up in the middle of the week saves you both sleep and money.
4. Mind the Fine Print on Your Credit Card & Reward Programs..
5. Get Out of the Car (Opt for Self-Service)..
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Here in SE Pa,, Giant Food chain offers a discount. Points accumulate over a 6 week period and you can get .10-1.50 off per gallon for up to 30 gallons, depending on how much you shop. Only certain stores have the gas pump. For me, it’s about a 7 mile drive..but filling up for 50 cents less per gallon was worth it.
full-service?? do they exist anymore?
My one rule is to do the simple math. If you go driving across town to “save” 10 cents a gallon you better have a big tank, otherwise the cost in time and burned gas getting there will actually cost you more. I’ve got a 13 gallon tank that it takes me 2 1/2 weeks to burn through, I just fill up when it’s nearly empty at the nearest place and don’t sweat the rest.
6. - Buy it when you see it - the price will be higher in an hour.
I know there are still two full service stations in Austin. One is on 183 about two miles from Loop 1 and the other in Tarrytown / leftover hippies and tree huggers.
Here’s 1 more, “Drill baby, drill.”
” 2. Inconvenience Yourself.. “
Do a little arithmetic - by the time you drive across town to get gas a few cents ‘cheaper’, how much have you really saved???
May want to try Gasbuddy.com. They also have an app for IPhone and I assume the other smart phones. I use it whenever I am looking for the best price for gas.
Combine GasBuddy.com with not going more than a mile or two out of your way and you can save a bundle. There are two or three stations close to where I work that average about $0.15/gal cheaper than by my house.
I haven’t seen one since last century.
Add to the list: Use pure-gas.org or other station locator utility website or phone app to find ethanol-free gasoline whenever possible. It costs a few pennies more per gallon, but the increase in fuel economy is easily worth it.
Find out where cab the local cab drivers fill up - that will be the cheapest.
ML/NJ
The obvious #6: Defeat Obama
“full-service?? do they exist anymore?”
They do in New Jersey, where self-service is forbidden by law. Interestingly enough, gas prices there are among the lowest in the country - I assume because of differences in the amounts of taxes, which affect the price far more than the labor involved in pumping gas.
The obvious #6: Defeat Obama
Pull your car up to an empty island. Hop out wearing your gas-jockey uniform. Next car that comes in on the other side of the island, you’re johnny-on-the-spot to the window telling them it’s “FULL SERVICE FOR SELF SERVICE PRICE DAY”. Put the gas into your car while you pretend to check the tire pressure on their car, secretly letting all the air out of their tires. You tell them, “That’s twenty dollars even” when they know it takes fifty bucks to fill up. Hand them a window-washer thingy and tell them that it’s a prize for filling up the tank. Free tank of gas and twenty bucks for beer. Drive away real fast.
Gas buddy is Ok - been fooled a couple of times, and found a few areas where the gas stations are listed, but no prices, but on the whole it’s a good app.
I guess the full service stations are part of the “Keep Austin Weird” campaign.
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