When's the best time to buy gas?
Hint: It has nothing to do with the temperature outside.
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For all you Smokers out there its not just the cost of smoking but the gas it takes to get to the store just to kill your self once you get there. Save gas and do what I did stop the butts and just get what is called a E -cig it worked for me no more trips to the store wasting gas.and I am saving $3000 a year and who knows how much on gas.I found one of them momandpopvaporshops.cpm on line and it works!
Gas and oil are finite. They will run out. The world is likely around Peak Oil, which means worldwide production will start to drop soon. This will increase competition for what's left, and higher prices and shortages will result. At the first hint of shortages people will panic-buy what's left and drain the gas stations in no time.
.. because your neighbor is probably still asleep, and all you need is a piece of rubber hose and a bucket,,
I purchase roughly 1000 gallons of gas per year. If I save a $0.10 per gallon by buying my gas on Wednesday morning instead of Saturday afternoon, I'll save a whole $100 per year. If I can earn 4-5% interest per year, I'll be able to shave several days off my retirement.
"First, the best time to buy gas is a moot point if you need it RIGHT NOW. If you can't wait, you can't wait."
I have a new prius; I can drive 50 miles to neighboring state where gas is twenty cents cheaper if I want and it is STILL cost effective to fill up (if I felt like doing that)...
If you have an SUV, you are a hostage to petrodictators here and abroad.
You know, the emissions from a vehicle like yours causes irreparable damage to the ozone. I drive a hybrid. it's much better for the environment. Thaaaaanks.
The emissions from your hybrid car also cause irreparable damage. Ozone has nothing to do with it, it's about the CO2. Emissions are slightly less in a hybrid than an SUV, but it's the same problem either way.
An SUV that gets 17 MPG uses 3X as much fuel and produces 3X more emissions than a 51 MPG hybrid. 200% more emissions is not slight!
Hybrids are efficient for basic transportation... larger engines are better for hauling goods or trailers, etc. Each has its place. It is using the maximum size vehicle for a job that can be done with a minimum sized vehicle that is inefficient.
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I never buy gas at Exxon. EVER.
First, the best time to buy gas is a moot point if you need it RIGHT NOW. If you can't wait, you can't wait.
Second, I don't know about the rest of the country, but the gas stations I pass every day to and from work have all had the same prices now for the past 3 or 4 days, so there goes that argument. On the flip side, I recently passed up on buying gas from a station because their price was higher than one near work. When I went to buy the next day, BOTH stations had jacked their.... More
First, the best time to buy gas is a moot point if you need it RIGHT NOW. If you can't wait, you can't wait.
Second, I don't know about the rest of the country, but the gas stations I pass every day to and from work have all had the same prices now for the past 3 or 4 days, so there goes that argument. On the flip side, I recently passed up on buying gas from a station because their price was higher than one near work. When I went to buy the next day, BOTH stations had jacked their.... More
The article is very misleading and delusional. It really should be about "HOW TO BUY LESS GAS". We depend on very limited natural resources, very limited nature and animals to survive. Pollution, eating species into extinction and
massacre of environment happens on global scale: sacred and very needed by life on Earth trees are being massacred by human predator. Gold mining, illegal tree cutting, illegal ranching in Amazon already destroyed a lot of sacred
trees. Animals' habitat.... More
Are you huffing glue at this exact moment in time? I hope you're not populating the earth. You get up on your soap box and point your finger at everyone else. If you have electricity in your house that doesn't come from wind, air, or solar, you my friend are a hypocrite. You wear leather shoes? Leather doesn't grow on trees the last time I checked. Do us all a favor, keep your coments to yourself.
Leather clothing has nothing to do with exponential propagation of most vicious predator (human). Breathing glue, you said? My "house"? We do not need to build anymore houses. "Point my finger"? I am not pointing finger: only stating scientific facts and what to do about it: stop propagating like rats. PS: I have never done dope in my life, no alcohol, etc. I have a University degree: I only state what I learned. Whether you agree or not - the readers are the judges, not you. You wish you could.... More
Now this isn't very scientific but it is a really good idea that most kids have problems with.....but the best time to buy gas is before you run out! We all need it, we all use it, so get over it....pay the price cause the oil companies are not going to lower the price, they have to get richer at our expense and the gas stations have to gouge out our eyeballs! That's just the way it goes. If you don't like it, walk.
i have 3 stations near me and their prices change days apart either going up or down. the one on the main highway changes first because of the traffic and the ones in town change later because they are in competition with each other.
since most all gas station tanks are under ground the temp of the fuel does not change. bulk distributors have to compensate for temp because their storage tanks are above ground and subject to temp changes
You reported that Proctor said, "When I win and save money, it buys me lunch that day every time." I don't know what they charge for gas or how much he buys but even if my pump price jumps 10 cents and I put in half a tank, or about 12 gallons, that's only a savings (or loss) of $1.20. I'm afraid that Happy Meal is going to be short more than a few fries!
You have a 24-gallon tank? Geez. I try to watch prices for my Scion, and it only has an 11.9-gallon tank... I even use a retailer's shopping card and the affilliated gas station to save three cents a gallon.
Never use gas; get off gas. buy electric scooter to get groceries if you are old and can't ride a bike; live close to work ...
Otherwise, thanks to new rules allowing even more engine damaging ethanol you will be forced to buy a new car (and this has nothing to do with Obama but more to do with GOP not diversifying and continuing to support dictators and continued siphoning of American tax dollars to wasteful industries (ethanol), as if big oil and coal haven't stolen enough for their.... More
Great idea! We'll all move closer to work to save on gas. How about those who live close to work but can't ride anyways because of safety and rotten drivers. Go to your front door and slam it on your head. You should work at NASA.
Wow, you need to get your facts straight. I am 70 and your comment are way out in left field. go drink some more Kool Aid
the best time to buy gas would be when people have switched to alternate sources of energy and the supply of gas is way, way more than the demand. and as we all know in that case, the price would just be low, of course by then it may be illegal to use gas ~
as a master jockass, when people make up stuff on the spot it tends to be wrong, even when pretending to be a master chemist, indicating no one of any vaginal knowledge would care.
"However, where you guy gas can potentially save you money." Read that again please....
As a master chemist, when all the "buy in the cold morning" nonsense was being pass around, I noticed the nozzle of the gas pump got just as cold no matter what time I pumped gas, indicating no one of any real scientific knowledge originated that claim.
