This Week’s Gas Prices
I know, no one needs a reminder of how high gas prices are right now, but it continues to amaze me with the impact it has. I am fortunate in that I need to do a fairly small amount of driving overall, but things like our yearly vacation (Pennsic) are going to be much more expensive this year specifically because of the gas prices. It costs over $80 at regular gas prices right now for me to fill the tank. I’m not even sure how much more I need to spend on other goods because of the increase. So I’ve been trying to watch the price of gas various places to notice where it is cheaper, and trying to shop a fair bit at Giant Eagle in order to get the gas discount.
So far for this week, here’s what I’ve noticed as being the cheapest gas prices in Morgantown:
Dairy Mart: $4.08 / gallon
Get Go (Giant Eagle) $4.09 / gallon
Kroger $4.09 / gallon
(Various other places I’ve seen are also at $4.09 per gallon, like some of the BPs, but since the two grocery chains offer fuel discounts they get preferential treatment here.)
According to WestVirginiaGasPrices.com, Sam’s Club is selling gas for $4.06 / gallon (I was actually up there today, but Walmart doesn’t have obvious gas prices posted, at least that I saw, so I can’t confirm).
Now the actual *cheapest* places to get gas for me seem to be the two grocery stores — Kroger drops ten cents per gallon automatically for you having a Kroger card, and Giant Eagle does the 10 cents off per gallon for every $50 of groceries you buy. (Is there more to the Kroger deal? I thought you could get an extra 10 cents off for every $100 you bought in groceries, but I was never actually able to redeem that at the pump, I was only ever able to save 10 cents per gallon.)
Since I’m a Upromise member I can get 1 cent per gallon back towards college from Exxon, but the only Exxon I’ve been by was priced at $4.11 / gallon, so it really doesn’t seem to pan out right now.
It’s funny, I used to be concerned about buying my gas at BP or Amoco because they had the best environmental track records. Now I’m most concerned about who’s cheapest.
Where do you get your gas?
