Passing Gas
Moonshine needed a fill-up today so I went to one of the BP stations by the Interstate exit. When I got there, the attendant was throwing "out of order" bags on the pump nozzles...they had sold out of regular and mid-grade. (Earlier my father told me that something like that had happened at the BP in "downtown" Dandridge.)
[Yes, I know what you're saying. I was brand-loyal to BP from when they were Amoco, and kinda wish they still were Amoco. But that's part of this story.]
So I went to the Shell on the other side of the Interstate overpass and fueled there. I noticed on the pump they were offering a new credit card with the following plan: buy more than 45 gallons in a month, and Shell will discount your tab by 5¢ per gallon, up to 100 gallons per month. In my head I crunched the numbers...my car gets, conservatively, at least 33 miles to a gallon in normal use. To qualify for the monthly discount, I'd have to drive over 1500 miles in a month to get...$2.25 in discount savings. And the maximum discount per month is only $5--only enough to pay for TWO gallons at today's prices.
My folks may be in the market to "renegotiate" our gas cards, but the above plan is gas worth passing. (Pun intended.)
[Yes, I know what you're saying. I was brand-loyal to BP from when they were Amoco, and kinda wish they still were Amoco. But that's part of this story.]
So I went to the Shell on the other side of the Interstate overpass and fueled there. I noticed on the pump they were offering a new credit card with the following plan: buy more than 45 gallons in a month, and Shell will discount your tab by 5¢ per gallon, up to 100 gallons per month. In my head I crunched the numbers...my car gets, conservatively, at least 33 miles to a gallon in normal use. To qualify for the monthly discount, I'd have to drive over 1500 miles in a month to get...$2.25 in discount savings. And the maximum discount per month is only $5--only enough to pay for TWO gallons at today's prices.
My folks may be in the market to "renegotiate" our gas cards, but the above plan is gas worth passing. (Pun intended.)