Useless Facts/Chit Chat Thread

[3gr8kids]

Wow, I feel like I won the lottery this morning - I only paid $3.65 for gas at Sam's!!

 

[auntie]

Wow! That is a bargain!

 

[Donna]

Wow! That is a bargain!

here's my bargain. our fuel perks (shopping card) is up to $3.00 off, so right now, we can get up to 30 gallons of gas for .89 a gallon! too bad the RV is almost full right now!

 

[RvUsa]

Donna, I have probably asked you this before, but you said fuel perks, and your location is PA, would that be giant eagle fuel perks, and where are you at? LOL

 

[auntie]

here's my bargain. our fuel perks (shopping card) is up to $3.00 off, so right now, we can get up to 30 gallons of gas for .89 a gallon! too bad the RV is almost full right now!

What exactly is that..a gas credit of some type, and how do you get it?

 

[RvUsa]

If it is the same fuel perks we use, it is a grocery store, that owns gas stations. For every $50 you spend in the store, you get .10 off a gallon of gas (up to 30 gallons). You can use it all at once or wait, and save em up, but they do expire. Giant Eagle also sells gift cards to lots of other stores like circuit city, sears, home depot etc. When we were buying stuff to do my aunts house, we would buy $2000 worth of depot cards at GE and then take them to HD and use them. Plus score loads of free fuel. I think at one point last summer, I had gotten over $1000 of free fuel, according to there report on my receipts.

 

[auntie]

Okay..that makes sense. I'm not aware of anything like that where we live..at least not related to gas. Sounds like a good idea though.

 

[1goofy1]

Dave Mustaine forgot the name of the song though.

Yep - song is Symphony of Destruction

 

[Donna]

If it is the same fuel perks we use, it is a grocery store, that owns gas stations. For every $50 you spend in the store, you get .10 off a gallon of gas (up to 30 gallons). You can use it all at once or wait, and save em up, but they do expire. Giant Eagle also sells gift cards to lots of other stores like circuit city, sears, home depot etc. When we were buying stuff to do my aunts house, we would buy $2000 worth of depot cards at GE and then take them to HD and use them. Plus score loads of free fuel. I think at one point last summer, I had gotten over $1000 of free fuel, according to there report on my receipts.

yep thats Giant Eagle (pittsburgh area) alright. I think you even get more credit sometimes for buying the gift cards. i wish they'd let you get more than 30 gallons though. still, it's a nice perk. we try to do all our shopping there.

 

[terri01p]

Just put gas in the car to a tune of 3.79 ...gosh that hurts but it's better than 4.00, which we expect to have by the end of the month.

How do people traveling in those big busses do it ?

 

[terri01p]

Isn't it crazy, I found myself feeling all excited and had to sit down and figure out what the deal was and all I could come up with is everyone is gone to the fort for memorial day weekend and what fun they are going to have.

I can't wait to see pictures !

 

[lisa8200]

On GMA this morning, one of the oil execs was quoted as saying they only make .04 a gallon, yeh right!

If you believe that, I have some nice swampland I can sell ya!

Exxon Mobil's profits for 2007 were $10.9B. That's a HELUVA lotta gallons of gas!!

I don't want ya'll to gang up on me about this ( especially since I haven't done much for research). I have heard in the past that the profit margin ( which would be the amount per gallon for instance, not the yearly profits ) were really low for the oil companies. I tend to believe it. If you think about the amount of fuel that is purchased all over the country, .04 a gallon profit per gallon would yield a HUGE end of year profit.Just think about all the cars,trucks,RV's,Planes and boats that have to use fuel and it seems very possible. Don't get me wrong,,I don't like it and probably never will.

 

[auntie]

Just put gas in the car to a tune of 3.79 ...gosh that hurts but it's better than 4.00, which we expect to have by the end of the month.

How do people traveling in those big busses do it ?

Jeeze, you know it's bad when you read someone paid $3.79, and you think that's a bargain because you paid $4.10 yesterday.

I honestly hope it doesn't go to $5.00...I don't know how to handle that. Guess we won't be going to far, that's for sure.
I can't imagine having one of those big busses. We'd be doing mostly "driveway camping"

 

[medic9016]

That seems what I have read somewhere aslo. The profit 40K per 1 million gallons sold. There is probably several million gallons of fuel sold each day all over the world. If they all the taxes on gas were taken away then the price would drop quiet a bit. I think we have federal, state and county taxes here.

 

[AUDramaQueen]

I don't want ya'll to gang up on me about this ( especially since I haven't done much for research). I have heard in the past that the profit margin ( which would be the amount per gallon for instance, not the yearly profits ) were really low for the oil companies. I tend to believe it. If you think about the amount of fuel that is purchased all over the country, .04 a gallon profit per gallon would yield a HUGE end of year profit.Just think about all the cars,trucks,RV's,Planes and boats that have to use fuel and it seems very possible. Don't get me wrong,,I don't like it and probably never will.

Don't oil companies make money on other stuff? I thought oil is used in making plastics and other products

Anyway, gas here is $3.69 at one station but across the street was up to $3.79. Guess I should be thankful it's not higher and that we moved to a smaller town where I dont have to drive so much. Still sucks though...we're road trip people and have no vacation plans!

 

[clkelley]

I was quoted in Good Sam Highways Magazine this month Page 12 Laundry Multitasking.

 

[auntie]

I'll have to look for it! Congratulations!

 

[VACAMPER]

I got Highways in the mail today. I just went and looked you up. Do you feel famous?

 

[3gr8kids]

I was quoted in Good Sam Highways Magazine this month Page 12 Laundry Multitasking.

You a "SupaStah" LOL

 

[djblu883]

I was quoted in Good Sam Highways Magazine this month Page 12 Laundry Multitasking.

well congrats! That's pretty kewl! I don't get the mag but still that is pretty awesome!