$3.75 at Costco
I haven't waited in line for gasoline since -- what? -- Jimmy Carter was president? But at this price it's understandable. Pretty good rush on the pumps at Costco yesterday. Also, all the chicken breast was gone by Thursday night. What's up with that?
I rented a Honda Civic last weekend for the zip trip to Foxboro for the NCAA lax semifinals and, while I didn't measure the gas mileage, the Civic only seemed to sip as we zipped. I put $68 worth in the tank for the round-trip. Can't wait to end my eight-year stint as Dan the Van Man, and get into something more efficient and, you know, less dorky.
By the way, Foxboro is crummy. Nice stadium, awful place, the Great Un-Near. Baltimore is so lucky to have downtown stadiums for both major franchises. When TV directors present shots of historic sites of Boston during national telecasts of sports events from Foxboro -- it's a total fraud. Foxboro is more than 30 miles from Phaneuil Hall. You can look it up.
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I was at Costco last weekend. I got to talking to the manager who was training an employee at the register about gas prices. He told me that Costco actually WANTS to sell it's gas for less, but the local authorities (he didn't specify county or state.) won't let them, because they believe it forms an unfair advantage for Costco???!!!!??
That's great! Great free-market economy we live in, huh? It's things like this that prevent the market from TRULY defining price.
Posted by: Trouble | May 30, 2008 8:08 AM
Tom,
It's true. The General Assembly passed a law in 2001 that prohibits the sale of gasoline below cost. The law was passed in response to independent gas station owners who complained about having to compete with Costco, BJ's, and Sam's Club- who were all selling their gas below cost in order to attract more customers to their stoes.
Posted by: MCG | May 30, 2008 9:31 AM
For the love of god! Get a reporter to expose research/expose this, please. It was one thing to pass this law in 2001 when gas was still in the mid-/upper-$1.00's. It's a completely different thing when we're paying $4 for gas.
Posted by: Trouble | May 30, 2008 12:39 PM
Dan, I paid $3.81 at BJ's in White Marsh Friday night, about a dime or more less than anywhere else I saw on Belair Road.
Posted by: Dottie | June 2, 2008 10:06 AM