>From what I understand the Priceline discounts will average less than .10
per gallon from the low price stations in your market. The higher savings
you see advertised will be based on the high priced stations. So if you
already shop around a little which I assume anybody who cares enough to do
this would, you're not saving much. $5 a month and you're tied to a
particular station.
For individual state gas taxes check out:
http://www.lmoga.com/taxrates.htm
If you're in NY you may be able to save .12 cents in taxes by crossing the
border to Jersey. It would be interesting to see if the price difference
is that much.
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Race Car: 69 1/2 Road Runner 440-6 (ex-NHRA SS/GA future B or C/SA???)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Levy" <andylevy@bigfoot.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Gas Prices, name your own, WAS: Gas Out
| Kind of. As I understand it, you name your price per gallon and get a
| card for $50/month (like a debit card). You can use it at a set number
| of gas stations which you choose from the list of participating
| stations. Right now, it's only going to be in a few major metro areas
| (Philly, NYC, some others).
|
| The killer is, finding participating gas stations. I imagine the
| franchises owned by the big boys will be slow to pick up on this, but
| the smaller, "independent" stations might go for it.
|
| At my current rate, I'm sucking down about $84/month in gas, but this
| would make a dent in it, as I could get more gas for $50 than I probably
| am getting now.
|
| Anyone know what the state/federal taxes are on gas in NY? I'm
| considering starting to go to one of the nearby reservations for gas to
| save that money. Just trying to figure out if the gas I burn to/from
| the reservation will cover the taxes I save.
|
| Todd Abernathy wrote:
| >
| > Came across this piece of information the other day, priceline.com will
| > offer a service of letting you name your own price gas price later this
| > year, like they now do for airlines and hotels. From what I've read,
you
| > give them the name of gas stations in your area and how much you are
| > willing to pay per gallon. They will give you a quote on the price the
| > station will sell to you. You are locked into the price even if gas
goes
| > up and get a reduction in the price if gas goes down. The price of
| > course is only good for a certain amount of time. I have never used
| > priceline so I don't really know how good they are. I think they are
at
| > priceline.com if you want the info directly from them.
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