The Costco Amex cards gets you 3% on gas purchases up to $3000 year then it drops to 1% (but not at Costco IIRC), 3% on restaurants including fast food, 2% on travel, and 1% on everything else. The membership is $55/year and $110/year for executive level which gets you 2% on Costco purchases redeemable in the form of more purchases at Costco. In the past I have tried Costco gas and it didn't run very well in my Jeep. Valero/Diamond Shamrock works the best in my Jeep.
Costco is a good place to buy big screen TV's and some other things, but most of the time I want a model or variety of something they don't have, so membership there has limited value to me. I just don't need 3 big bottles of Heinz ketchup or crates of bread. Some people like them for tires, but I can get the same pricing and a lot more locations from Discount Tire. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Petroleum prices > Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:39:13 -0400 > From: Rich Thomas > <richthomas79TD300@**constructivity.net<richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> > > > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > > > If y'all have a Costco nearby I find the prices at ours to be anywhere > from 2-3cents a gallon cheaper than the cheapest local station, was > 9cents on Th when I topped off. They have some deal where if you have > their Amex card I think you get another 2 or 3 discount. I have the > "Executive" membership, which costs $100/yr but you get back a > percentage of your spending there. The last 3 yr I have gotten back $75 > or $80 or so, which makes that membership less than the basic one. > Someone there told me too that if I did not get enough back just through > that process, come see the desk and they would issue me credits or > something to make it work. > > SC has the lowest gas taxes in the country, and most of the time the > lowest gas prices. When you cross the border to NC price jumps about > 20c a gallon. Then the further north into nannyland it gets even more > expensive. > > ---R > > On 6/2/12 1:23 PM, Allan Streib wrote: > >> When prices are fluctuating, I try to "dollar cost average." Rather >> than fill the tank, I buy a fixed dollar amount of fuel. That way I end >> up buying more fuel when it's cheaper, and less when it's expensive. >> >> Of course when prices are trending mostly up it makes more sense to fill >> up. Sort of a guessing game. >> >> Allan >> >> Dieselhead<126die...@gmail.com**> writes: >> >> I remember Diesel going over $5 in summer of 08 >>> It really hurt. I had been putting $20 in a 5 gallon can, and when >>> that went under 4 gallons, I went to $25 to get around 4 gallons. My >>> recollection is that Diesel hit $5.239 or $5.259. I think gasoline >>> hit $4.999 >>> >>> I remember gasoline being $1.399 in Dec-Jan the following >>> winter... Much nicer! >>> >>> > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
