what's your gas prices down too?

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Ours is around 2.99. Honestly, once they had us used to paying almost 4 bucks a gallon- I never thought they would let it go so low.... 28 dollars to fill my car, just about half what it was.
 

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Here in SW Wash. I filled up at the lowest price around at $2.67 / gal. at Costco.
 

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Costco and Sam's Club around here are at $1.94.
Local stations right here in town are $2.09 - $2.15 ... diesel is $3.15.
 

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sometimes pennies are not worth it when it comes to fuel. use to fill my truck up at murphys <walmart> figured heck .5 cents difference was great, keep having to replace my fuel filter every oil change only took a couple time to figure it out the problem. so switched and payed the .5 more and and that cured problem somewhat
since i totalled my car i am back driving the truck everyday now going to the shell station down the road and my mileage has increased pulling a respectable 19-19.5 per gallon.
as for gasoline some states allow a percentage of ethanol my state allows up to 10% have a friend that works at one of the tank farms here,when a tanker truck comes in to be filled for a station <will use walmart> if that walmart is asking for 1000 gallons of reg 10% of that will be ethanol or 100 gallons. yes you get a great price.
now if that same tanker truck gets a order for lets say <shell> with in companys business rules that same 1000 will have only 60 gallons of ethanol and even lower in their premium.. cars get poorer mileage when theres a higher amount of ethanol. mom and pop stations with lower fuel prices is not always the best bet either.
try this fill your car up at <walmart> zero out your odometer check your mileage on that tank write it down, the next time you service car go fill up at a shell zero it out again bet you find that you get better milage.

this was all done on cruise control....

have a 97 f-350 7.3l 325+ k
drive 500 miles a week
walmart would have fuel twice a week 10-12 mpg =41 gpw <gallons per week>
shell fuel once a week 19-19.5 mpg avg =25 gpw

had a 08 nissan altima 2.5l 105k
drove it 500 miles a week
was fueling at wilco hess 24-25 mpg =20 gpw
then started fueling at shell 27-29 mpg =17 gpw
do the math is it worth those few pennies?
 

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