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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:15 AM
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Do you know about this website to find best gas price ?
This is really a great website to find the cheapest selling gas station in your area.

Just type in your zip code. There are numerous other ways to search also. If you want to check a particular station just type in the name.

Hope it saves you some money. ....... http://www.gasbuddy.com/
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:28 AM
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1. actually, chasing cheaper gas actually costs you money.
The smartest, simplest and easiest thing to do is to fill up whenever you have 1/4 tank.

If you drive even two miles for cheaper gas, the stop and go, the time you waste, the gas you burn and the wear and tear on your engine from starting costs you much more than the few pennies you save.

Frankly, the math does NOT work.
Even if you find a price 10 cents cheaper a gallon (Oh MY!) with ten gallons, you just bought yourself a morning paper. Saving a dollar, and driving 10 miles, waiting in line, adding to traffic flows, going out of your way?
Silly Stupid Pointless and if you do the math, at most you will save an entire $1.00.
If you do that 12 times a year, wow, you just saved $12 dollars. And spent 10 times that trying to do it. (your time costs money, too.)
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:32 AM
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2. Well, in theory you would stop at said gas station on your way to
some other destination.

I always stop for gas en route to wherever I'm headed.
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:37 AM
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3. When you put
18 gallons or more in your tank and there is a twelve cent difference, that's worth knowing about. Especially when it's this easy.

People wait in lines at a certain gas station for a two cent difference. We don't all have ten gallon tanks or own a Prius you know.

This is a fabulous website because you can know exactly what the price is before you go there. I think it's an incredible service they provide.
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:01 AM
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8. Wrong ...
If you make a special trip to a cheap gas station that is "out of the way" then your statement is correct. It is probably not worth it.

If you plan your fillups at cheap gas stations that fall along a route that you are already going to travel, then it is well worth the effort.

This website helps you make such a plan.

Cheers
Drifter
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:39 AM
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4. I use a different one >>>>>>>
http://www.louisvillegasprices.com/

Has links to other cities/states, too.

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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:51 AM
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5. That's the same one
Roland. That's gas buddy.

They graph it differently where you are because I think there are fewer people constantly accessing the site.

Phoenix used to look that same way before the gas prices shot up. I liked it that way showing the mixed stations immediately priced from lowest.

This is a few more steps but I still think it's a terrific service.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:04 AM
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10. So it is...just saw a different domain name.
;)

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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 10:54 AM
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6. Facinating . . .
. . . how the price goes up and then down in about a 5-6 month cycle over the last three years (all that the program would let me chart). I've felt for a while that this stair-step pattern was likely and was done intentionally in order to break-in the masses gradually to every higher pump prices. Gas goes from 1.00 a gallon up to 1.50, then it's: "Oh my god, it's 1.50! Then a few weeks later it's thank god it's now down to 1.25. . . . then a few weeks more and it's up to 1.75 . . . and so on until we get to what?
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:02 AM
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9. Yup,
it's subliminal conditioning. Just like a magician uses misdirection.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:00 AM
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7. There's another site for San Diego
http://home.fueltracker.com
run by www.ucan.org
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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:09 AM
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11. Cool
and in Houston, Texas-- look at all the Citgo stations on the top ten for lowest prices. All the more reason to ditch Exxon.
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:23 AM
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12. Absolutely.
Anyone who patronizes Exxon or Mobil should also bend over after filling up and have someone give them their free kick in the butt they just paid for.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:34 AM
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13. I get about 8 mpg in city driving, not going to make much difference


:rofl:
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:54 AM
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14. What do you drive
an earthmover ? lol
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 02:39 PM
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15. '88 Isuzu Trooper 4X4
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