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Old 07-04-2010, 07:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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30 gallons @ 29.9 cents per

A local supermarket has an affinty program...buy so much food and get a discount on their gas. The posted price was $2.699. I got 30 gallons for $8.97, on a cash back credit card!

Yeeeeeaa me!

Took forever, and I had to buy 25 gallons worth of gas cans.


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YEAH!!!! We do the same thing at Gordy's. Certain food has cents off coupons.
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you guys have it sooo good over there - I'm currently paying £1.179 (roughly $1.78) per LITRE of diesel, gas is £1.139

its just not funny
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About $6.50 per gallon...ouch!


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it was around the £1.29 range too long ago! - - - ¬
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A local supermarket has an affinty program...buy so much food and get a discount on their gas.
Yeah, but I bet that if you comparison-shopped supermarkets that don't have the program, you'd find that the food you bought cost... oh, about $80.97 more than if you'd bought at a different store. TANSTAAFL!
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Yeah, but I bet that if you comparison-shopped supermarkets that don't have the program, you'd find that the food you bought cost... oh, about $80.97 more than if you'd bought at a different store. TANSTAAFL!
I was going to say the same thing
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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I got 30 gallons for $8.97

Where do you live, in Venezuela ?

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Yeah, but I bet that if you comparison-shopped supermarkets that don't have the program, you'd find that the food you bought cost... oh, about $80.97 more than if you'd bought at a different store. TANSTAAFL!
Naaaa, not really, that's why it took forever!
The lunch wasn't free, that's what paid for the gas.

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you guys have it sooo good over there - I'm currently paying £1.179 (roughly $1.78) per LITRE of diesel, gas is £1.139

its just not funny
How much of that is taxes?

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