Saturday's Question of the Day - April 26

Fuel prices are going up here in the US as the weather gets warmer. Strangely, it seems my mileage has also improved.

When filling up your gas tank, do you stick to one brand or do you generally fill up at different stations?

I usually go to Shell. For some reason Shell gives me a tiny bit more mileage than the rest. There's a BP round the corner, but they have a pretty bad environmental record, so I tend to stay away (yeah, I'm that guy). But the best reason is... Shell's convenience stores always have Nutella Chocolate Dips. 

I haven't been inside a gas station in forever. Only on road trips to use the bathroom; for normal filling up, I just use my card at the pump. So whatever snacks the station sells doesn't matter to me!

No, I don't have a preference except for price. I don't keep close enough tabs on my mileage to know if one brand does better than another.

I think the last time I gassed up was about 4 years ago. Our car is a diesel and isn't used every day. DH fills it up and goes by price, not brand.

I usually use a local Sunoco gas station. I like the young woman who works there; she's a hoot. Back during the winter I had told her about moving to Belize and for a couple of weeks afterward, she told me she was going with me. They usually have the best prices and it's easy in and easy out....not a lot of hassle.

I $40 myself to death when driving the Tucson (go in and pay $40 for gas every week). When I'm driving Clarence I can get by with $20 a week for gas as he's better on gas.

l go wherever it's cheapest here in the city as they're all self-serve. Outside the city l only go to full-serves, so l don't stick to any one brand.

Gas prices are ridiculous at the minute, we're at $1.40/litre, that's $5.60/gallon.

Winn Dixie grocery stores offers FuelPerks! which takes $0.05 off per gallon for every $50 spent on groceries, so I get gas at those approved stations usually.  Also, I shop stations that have a high turnover of gas...old gas can cause problems.  Especially now that they've changed formulations and all have so much corn in it.  I have to buy marine gas for the lawnmower since regular gas liquifies the carburetors.

I totally respect someone that looks at buying gas with respect to the environment.  I was dating a guy when the big spill happened in the Gulf, and I was disgusted when he bragged about running out and buying all kinds of BP stock since it would go up after incidents like that.  Crazy as it sounds, I should have broken up with him then.  It might have saved me a lot of trouble later.   

Right now, we're at $3.69 a gallon...like Cory mentioned, it's increasing with the summer months coming up.

Our Giant store (my grocery store) offers gas reward points. The problem is that the whole location there (it's a long commercial strip area)  is a good $0.20 higher per gallon than it is in town. So, really, in the long run, we're not gaining anything by using the points, unless we have a lot of points. We have to make up that 20-cent increase first before we get anything. When we can do that, Rick will gas his truck up down there, but otherwise, we just use the local Sunoco station. Anything else just isn't worthwhile.

I usually go to the same gas station since it is one of the cheapest.  Yesterday I paid $3.39 a gal.  It just went up.

Andrya said:

 
l go wherever it's cheapest here in the city as they're all self-serve. Outside the city l only go to full-serves, so l don't stick to any one brand.

Gas prices are ridiculous at the minute, we're at $1.40/litre, that's $5.60/gallon.

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Ugh, gas prices are crazy. In my old city, it was $1.49/litre earlier this week. Thankfully here, it's a bit less at around $1.35/litre. 

We tend to go wherever it is cheapest. There's a gas station in the next town over that sometimes is about 20 cents/litre cheaper so we sometimes go there.

I am not envious of drivers right now. The worst I've seen in the Greater Toronto Area is only $1.40/L, but I think it's hovering around $1.39/L right now (big diff..). When I used to drive back home, I lived in a much smaller city, away from tourist areas, and a bit away from the border so I would always go to Canadian Tire since it was right by my house and the gas stations in the immediate area all had the same prices. It was also the easiest for me to pull into regardless of the direction I was going or coming, haha. If I was in a pinch, when I was working a city away, I'd get gas on the way home at a Petro. My parents actually like to go over the border into Niagara Falls, NY for gas since it's way cheaper.

My boyfriend will get gas at a nearby station that's easy to pull into and out of. He doesn't "shop around" for gas since he knows he'll get ripped off either way, and it isn't worth saving 25 cents to drive to a farther gas station for a slightly better price. If we can, we gas up in or south of Beamsville on our way to visit friends or family, since gas prices get cheaper there than our area.

Gas prices are killing me. I have a long commute to school (an hour a day) and then have to drive even longer for my kids on the weekends (2.5 hours each week). When I first started driving in 1998, gas prices by my house was 99 cents/gallon. I could fill my car up for less than $10. Now it's approaching $4 and I could just burst.

I try to always go to Sheetz. It's usually cheaper by a cent or two than the other stations and I have a Sheetz card so get another three cents off. They also have a good snack selection, decent food, clean bathrooms, and have free air to fill your tires. Other places charge 25-50 cents. My only gripe is that the pump is slow. It takes a long time to fill up and is especially burdensome when the weather is bad.

My secondary option is Shell. They offer something like five cents off for every $40 or something like that. I don't remember now. I've got a BP rewards card, but like Cory I am morally opposed to shopping there after their repeated environmental disasters in the US that continue to devastate the affected economies.