10 Cents off per gallon

[Nolathyme]

I finally used my Safeway discount to get 10 cents off per gallon. The Mobil after discount price was 2 cents cheaper than Valero.

What is the average discount I should expect?

 

[Passepartout]

You get 3% off all gas on a Costco Amex card. That's like 12 cents at today's prices- and on top of the discount you get off the grocery point card. As others have posted subsequently, my Smith's (Kroger) loyalty card knocks up to a buck off up to 35 gallons of gas. They give a good bonus on 'scripts, so it's not too tough to have DW's car and my truck on fumes once a month or so and get it all.

About $40 savings on 35 gallons is a nice kicker.

Jim

 

[x3 skier]

Depending on how are scripts are running, I get as much as $1 off at Kroger gas stations using their reward card. Works at City Market and King Soopers as well while in Steamboat Springs.

Cheers

 

[geekette]

My Costco is the Amex version, so I get the 3% plus cashback. We also have Speedways here that have a loyalty card so I can get cents off a gallon or use my points for a gift card or donuts or whatever. I think Speedways are quite regional but maybe there is a local gas/convenience store chain in your area with similar.

My BF uses the Kroger 10 cents off/gallon frequently.

 

[SmithOp]

I finally used my Safeway discount to get 10 cents off per gallon. The Mobil after discount price was 2 cents cheaper than Valero.

What is the average discount I should expect?

I just signed up for Safeway Fast Forward, linked my card to checking account, now I just use phone # and pin at checkout. I get 2x gas rewards and extra .05 on standard gas discount. You can accumulate up to $1.00 in rewards + standard discount, I had one .10 reward at last fillup and got .18 discount. Standard discount with the plain sfwy card is .03 and can't combine with reward.

 

[MOXJO7282]

Amex Clear Blue - 5% on gas after first $6500. I max this card in the first month so we get 11 months at 5%. We also get it on groceries and drug stores so it really adds up over the year.

 

[ScoopKona]

Amex Clear Blue used at a Costco gas station or Smith's (our version of Kroger). Up to $1 off per gallon that way. That's how my wife does it, at least.

I don't purchase gasoline. OPEC can go [censored] as far as I'm concerned. I won't give them my money. My truck runs on natural gas, and I haven't paid more than the equivalent of $2.50 per gallon since I got off the gasoline merry-go-round.

I wouldn't want to go on a long road trip in my truck -- CNG refueling stations are still a rare thing. But as a daily commuter, I don't see why EVERYONE isn't doing this. The total operational cost of the vehicle is less than half that of a gasoline engine. Repeat, less than half. Furthermore, the emissions are cleaner than the air we're currently breathing.

And I'm not funding the lavish lifestyle of Kuwaiti and Saudi princes, either.


Something to think about next time you press the octane button.

 

[ricoba]

I wouldn't want to go on a long road trip in my truck -- CNG refueling stations are still a rare thing. But as a daily commuter, I don't see why EVERYONE isn't doing this. The total operational cost of the vehicle is less than half that of a gasoline engine. Repeat, less than half. Furthermore, the emissions are cleaner than the air we're currently breathing..

Here are a couple reasons I have never switched to CNG which I have been familiar with since the 1980's.

1) Most vehicles don't have a big enough trunk to carry a CNG fuel tank. Last time I saw one, it took up the whole trunk and this was on a Crown Vic which has a huge trunk already. Smaller cars don't have the space that I am aware of for the tank. You have a pickup, I assume, so the space issue isn't an issue for you.

2) There aren't enough refueling stations. I became interested in this back in the 1980's as mentioned when I went to a home show in Vancouver, BC and BC Hydro (the gas people in BC) had a booth showing the benefits of CNG, and that eventually there would be home refueling available for gas customers. This made sense to me, but I am unaware that gas companies have ever put in home refueling systems into homes. I think if they did, this would be a major impetus to switch over to CNG. Right now, you have to purposefully look for a CNG station.

I'd be glad to use CNG if like I said it were practical. But as of yet, for some reason it has not become practical for the ordinary consumer.

 

[ScoopKona]

But as of yet, for some reason it has not become practical for the ordinary consumer.

For some reason? I think we all know what the reason is.

Since I have four CNG filling stations within 20 miles of my house, CNG is practical enough for me. And yes, I have a pickup, so the tanks aren't a big deal. (Although I do lose 1/3 of the bed.) I'm getting the equivalent of 23 miles per gallon -- with an 8-cylinder, 200 hp engine.

Since the engine burns so clean, oil changes and spark plugs are good four times longer than gas. I'm exempt from smog. And I'm good to go in almost every HOV lane in the country. And, again, $2.50 gas. And, again, nobody is being shot at so that I can fill up my truck. I'm not funding countries whose residents hate me.

That isn't much of a downside considering the advantages.

 

[Ken555]

That isn't much of a downside considering the advantages.

Unless you don't want a truck or a Honda Civic.

 

[ricoba]

Like I said, I am in favor of CNG, but for most people it's still not a practical solution. I wish it was and maybe someday it will be, but as of yet, it's a niche market.

 

[ScoopKona]

Like I said, I am in favor of CNG, but for most people it's still not a practical solution. I wish it was and maybe someday it will be, but as of yet, it's a niche market.

Every time someone fills up with gasoline, it's basically like saying, "I support the Saudi sheiks, the Kuwaiti princes, the Nigerian warlords, the Venezuelan nut-jobs, and all the violence that stems from our insane addiction to petroleum. Two wars in the last 20 years. Hundreds of thousands dead. And causing a large portion of the world to hate us."

I cannot justify it, considering there is a cheaper, safer alternative.

 

[Kagehitokiri2]

ive gotten $2.20 off per gallon times 35 gallons = $77 off
http://www.giantfood.com/savings/shell_program.htm
http://www.shell.us/products-servic...tm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=grocery_giant

http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_locations.html
only 566 CNG stations in US

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2012_fotw717.html
jan 2012 - 6,033 charging stations in US

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2008_fotw548.html
2007 - 164,292 gas stations in US

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_a.htm
1,481,247 canada + mexico
807,172 persian gulf
US could be producing a lot more of everything
chavez is dead

 

[pjrose]

Every few months we'll get $1-$2 off per gallon at Giant. We use it for our van which takes more gallons than the cars. They have a lot of specials for earning extra points, so the gas points build up pretty quickly

We live in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the universe (according to my kids), so really don't have alternatives to regular gas. When we do, we'll try to use them.

 

[#1 Cowboys Fan]

Many of these offers seem NOT to be usable in the Northeast (Costco, etc)

I don't have a SAMs card anymore, but can someone weigh in on offers in my area?

Thanks.
Pat

 

[Kagehitokiri2]

Many of these offers seem NOT to be usable in the Northeast

cash back credit cards work anywhere

 

[Passepartout]

Kroger gas now only discounts for 1 month

Kroger, who at our Smith's store had the lowest pump price in town AND gave up to $1.00 per gallon discount with points from their grocery loyalty card is severely limiting the benefit. All points on your Kroger loyalty card March 31st will be converted to coupons mailed out Mon. April 1.

Effective April 1, there will be no more coupons for groceries sent out based on unused gas credits. AND all gas benefits have to be used by the last day of each month. Buy gas with your points by the end of each month or lose them. No more point rollover.

I didn't become aware of this til a couple of days ago, so was only able to get the max 35 gallons today. Bummer.