It never fails. Every time I fill up, the price of gas drops later the same day. If I think about filling up but decide not to, the price goes up. I was getting pretty near fumes today but I was resisting buying gas. The price had been steady at $2.90 a gallon for over a week and I kept expecting it to go down. Finally this morning I couldn’t wait any longer because my E-light was flashing pretty bad, so before work I stop in at the gas station up the street from my place and fill up.
On the way home, I see the price has dropped to $2.85/gal. Five cent drop in the space of nine hours.
Not like I would’ve saved some huge amount of money on the fillup, less than a dollar, but dammit! I’m still pissed. Just once I’d like to be on the winning side of a price change.
If this really works then we need to start a fund to keep Otto perpetually filling his tank. Pretty soon the price of gasoline will be down to pre 2000 prices.
And I’d snarl at Ivylass if I didn’t get better mileage.
Happened to me yesterday. Driving back from a Dr’s app’t in an unfamiliar area of town I saw a station at $3.09, a good dime less than most places (and two dimes less than some). After I put 15 gallons in my wife’s SUV, I pulled out of the station only to see that next door was another station selling at $3.03! Fuck!
I think it has to do with being close to where the corn is. As I understand it, it’s cheaper to ship the gasoline to where the ethanol is and blend it there than it is to ship the ethanol to where the gasoline is. When I visit my parents in Iowa the gas is always like a dime cheaper than Wisconsin.