Gasoline has Won Again

I needed gas about a week ago and decided I’d hit up the Shell near my house because you can save .10 cents per gallon (so they advertise) by using your Kroger Plus card. As I’ve discussed before there is a plethora of gas stations near my house…for some reason I always choose the most expensive one. I’m paying with cash so I pay first only to find out in order to use your Kroger plus card you need to enter its code FIRST. I get my gas only to drive up the street and another shell's gas is .06 cents cheaper. Gasoline = 2, Tara = 0.

This morning I needed gas (again) so I thought I’d try the Shell once more to save .10 cents. I decided to use my GasBuddy app so not to get screwed. My app says that the Shell on Peachtree Industrial has the cheapest gas. Fine, I’ll leave a bit early to go out of my way to save, theoretically around .20 (give or take) cents. When I arrived at the Shell it was CLOSED DOWN! All pumps “out of order”. Gasoline = 3, Tara = 0.

At this point I’ve given up on the shell and just need gas so decided to hit up the BP near my house, that is usually right around standard price of the others. When I approach I notice, duh, the Shell right next door to it and it’s cheaper than the Philips and Exxon across the street, so naturally I pull in and am ecstatic because I can use my Kroger plus and save an additional .10 cents! I do everything right, put in my Kroger plus ID first, go through the other prompts of payment and say “no” to a car wash (really what is with all this stuff these days? Why can’t I just pay for my gas and go? BP has a TV on their gas pumps now!). Then a message comes up that says “no credits received on your Kroger Plus card today” or something along those lines. I’m thinking “What! Why?” and a closer look at the advertisement says you have to EARN 1000 POINTS TO SAVE THE .10 CENTS! I am wowed! Gasoline = 4, Tara = 0.

All that driving around and trouble to save .10 cents and it turns out I’m not even eligible. Gasoline keeps winning, but I hope ONE day I will beat it! 

Damn the Man and the Gas People

So I’ve been noticing that the BP right outside my house is really cheap. Considering the Shell and the BP right up the road always being more expensive. You see this BP would be, for instance, $3.50 per gallon where the one literally right up the street would be $3.70 per gallon. I don’t understand why two gas stations of the same name would be that far off in price when they are basically right next to each other. 

I guess people caught on to the cheaper gas station because last night when I passed it, it was at $3.29 where the other ones were $3.37. I went out of my way this morning to get the cheapest gas and wouldn’t you know it went up to $3.69! I thought well this is usually the cheapest so I went ahead and got the gas. Well when I passed the other BP it was $3.37! W.T.F!?

This really angered me. I downloaded the gasbuddy app because I’ll be damned if I let that happen again.