Filled My Gas Tank For 38 Cents!

[DrinkMore]

Yup, 18 gallons of gas for 38 cents! I LOVE IT!

[JJ]

Braggy. I held up a gas station and filled up my 17 gallon tank for free, AND got a few bags of Skittles for my efforts.

93 octane, too.

[DrinkMore]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Braggy. I held up a gas station and filled up my 17 gallon tank for free, AND got a few bags of Skittles for my efforts.

93 octane, too.

See, I am being serious though.

[xtop]

your grocery store does the fuel perks too eh?

[DrinkMore]

Originally Posted by xtop

your grocery store does the fuel perks too eh?

Yup

[Bigdog]

Hell after the last two years, paying less then 40 bucks to fill up a 20+ gallon tank almost feels free.

[PVJAG]

Originally Posted by Bigdog

Hell after the last two years, paying less then 40 bucks to fill up a 20+ gallon tank almost feels free.

+1 It used to cost me $80-$90 to fill up, now it's half that. Enjoy it now though, definitely wont last forever.

[Blu-Benny]

i was happy i got a half tank in my truck for $21!!! can almost feel my pockets get a little fuller.

[dpomp]

Originally Posted by PVJAG

Enjoy it now though, definitely wont last forever.

it won't huh??

[redboxcar]

Originally Posted by xtop

your grocery store does the fuel perks too eh?

What are these perks you speak of? My grocery store doesn't have perks. =/

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by dpompeo

it won't huh??

Nope they are already trying to think up some bs excuse to justify a sudden 2 dollar per gallon hike. Just goes to show how the excuses of "oh the cost of extraction" or "the cost of refining" are all absolutley rubbish excuses for cost increases these last few years.

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by DrinkMore

Yup, 18 gallons of gas for 38 cents! I LOVE IT!

So much for my plans on selling my big SUV this year and getting a small fuel efficient Prius. Now if only house prices could fall this far, we might actually go back to the good-old days where only one spouse had to work.

[york weir]

Originally Posted by Craig Ruchman

So much for my plans on selling my big SUV this year and getting a small fuel efficient Prius. Now if only house prices could fall this far, we might actually go back to the good-old days where only one spouse had to work.

I would love it to send my wife out into the work force and I stay at home and watch movies all day.

[Forrestandjen07]

Originally Posted by xtop

your grocery store does the fuel perks too eh?

what perk is that?

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by Craig Ruchman

So much for my plans on selling my big SUV this year and getting a small fuel efficient Prius. Now if only house prices could fall this far, we might actually go back to the good-old days where only one spouse had to work.

The one item that nobody has been talking about is the replacement costs for batteries—because nobody is replacing them. That's what I thought until I received an email from Ray Molton, who works in the real estate industry in Houston, Texas. Ray wrote, "My 2001 Toyota Prius lasted five years and 113,000 miles. And then the batteries seemed to die. My dealer estimated the replacement cost at $7,000. They recommended scrapping the car for parts."

Ray told me that Toyota had been "no help whatsoever on this issue." He called another dealer only to discover a larger estimate of $8,000 to $9,000. Even worse, Ray discovered that the Toyota shop had another 2001 Prius with a bad battery. Maybe there is a conspiracy brewing, after all. In a follow-up email, Ray wrote, "Toyota doesn't want these battery issues to get out to the public. How could there be two 2001 Priuses in the same shop at the same time, if they have had no problems with the batteries?"

To make matters worse, Ray bought a salvage Prius battery to soften the damage to his pocketbook—only to discover that the salvage battery's #13 cell was corroded, the same #13 cell that had a problem on his Prius.

All of this threw me for a loop. Apparently, it had the same effect on Toyota.

Ray continued to appeal to Toyota's corporate offices, and finally got through to a customer care representative who promised to look at the Ray's expenses. He persisted at the local level, and finally got Metroplex Toyota in Houston to clean the corrosive cell on the salvage battery and install it—at half their normal price—in his Prius. The total bill, including rental car, salvage battery, service, and gasoline during the entire ordeal, was $1,345. Ray's Prius runs like a top again.

One month and three unreturned phone calls later, Ray gave up on getting any financial or emotional support from Toyota's Customer Care Department.

Still want that Prius? Really funny considering that no amount of co emissions can be anywhere near as impact full to the environment then the batteries in those Prius cars. Nice little story here to also show how Toyota is not the all happy thoughts, flowers and sunshine that everyone likes to make them out to be! Must be great to have a 6 year old car break down and your mechanic tell you to just scrap the car because it's not worth fixing.

[Beta Man]

If you want a smaller fuel efficient car, get a VW Jetta TDI....

fairly quick, and about 50 MPG.... Diesel is still expensive.... but relatively speaking, it's still cheap as hell to drive.

I would hate to have to find someone to fix a prius


for those asking about "Fuel Perks" Some of our local big-chain grocery stores offer 10 Cents off per Gallon of gas (they have their own gas stations too) for every $50 you spend at the grocery store.... and it adds up etc..... anyways.... you can buy Gift Cards too.... so if you buy a T.V. for say $1,000 from Best-Buy.... you just go to the grocery store, buy yourself $1,000 worth of Best Buy gift cards, and basically get a free tank of gas...... plus they offer "double perks" a lot too... like right now, it's 20 Cents off per gallon for every $50 in gift cards you get....

With a baby etc... my wife and I spend $500 a month or so at the grocery store, so we get a lot of Fuel perks....

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

If you want a smaller fuel efficient car, get a VW Jetta TDI....

fairly quick, and about 50 MPG.... Diesel is still expensive.... but relatively speaking, it's still cheap as hell to drive.

I would hate to have to find someone to fix a prius

The Prius's don't get as much MPG than I thought. I was thinking close to 60. But that must be the Honda Insight I'm thinking of. Wonder what happened to those.

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

If you want a smaller fuel efficient car, get a VW Jetta TDI....

fairly quick, and about 50 MPG.... Diesel is still expensive.... but relatively speaking, it's still cheap as hell to drive.

I would hate to have to find someone to fix a prius

Is that model even offered in the states at this time?

[JessR]

Originally Posted by Bigdog

Hell after the last two years, paying less then 40 bucks to fill up a 20+ gallon tank almost feels free.

so true, Im down to $18 to fill the tank, Used to take me $40.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

for those asking about "Fuel Perks" Some of our local big-chain grocery stores offer 10 Cents off per Gallon of gas (they have their own gas stations too) for every $50 you spend at the grocery store.... and it adds up etc..... anyways.... you can buy Gift Cards too.... so if you buy a T.V. for say $1,000 from Best-Buy.... you just go to the grocery store, buy yourself $1,000 worth of Best Buy gift cards, and basically get a free tank of gas...... plus they offer "double perks" a lot too... like right now, it's 20 Cents off per gallon for every $50 in gift cards you get....

With a baby etc... my wife and I spend $500 a month or so at the grocery store, so we get a lot of Fuel perks....

i assume you're talking about the same grocery store i have down here, but they also offer a penny off for every soft drink bought at the gas station. helpful if you're one of those people who buy one every day