I needed gas and forgot to stop in at Safeway on the way to work. If you have a Safeway Club card, you always get at least 3 cents/gallon off of the listed price of gas. Well...if I don't make it to Safeway in the morning, I can either hope to find an open pump after work (not likely), or I can just pull up and wait for a pump to open up. I hate waiting, so I figured I would get gas at lunch around work.

I had some other errands to run anyway, so I drove to a Circle K close to work. To digress, I used to live in Houston where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a gas station, but they are fewer and farther between in Phoenix. Anyway, the Circle K had a posted price of 3.189 for regular which is about as good as the cheaper stations in my neighborhood. The problem with Circle K--of which I am now painfully aware--is that they only list the price of regular. I extrapolated that 3.189 for regular would mean 3.389 for premium. I pulled up to the pump and got out of the car to find that while regular was 3.189, mid-grade was 3.319 (13 cents more/gallon) and premium was 3.619 (or a whopping 43 cents more per gallon than regular). There is no rhyme or reason for premium to cost that much more, but it's obvious why they don't post the price, which is just Circle K just being fu*ksticks to lazy a$$es like me who figure "yeah, that price sucks, but I'm already here so I'm not driving to one or two other places to find the best price".

I'm doing fine; no one needs to hold a benefit for me. I paid the extra price, but I also resolved not to go back to Circle K. I told a few friends whose cars also run on premium about the lack of posted price and they won't be patronizing Circle K anytime soon either. It just doesn't make sense to me that if over 90% of a company's profit comes from repeat business, Circle K wouldn't be more concerned about the impact of messing with unlisted gas prices the way they do.

There's a lady who works in my office who used to be an exec with Circle K before she came to work for us. She wasn't in the office much this week, but I am going to ask her if this is a corporate "strategy" or if it's just something some franchisees do.

Just beware. If not all three gas prices are posted, that could be because the station charges a lot more for mid-grade and premium than past experience would have you assume.

   Free TK   

I live in San Antonio, and the prices are neatly cheaper then up north in Michigan (I know you said this was AZ)  but for those who didnt read, I am not sure which Senator it is in Michigan, but they are proposing a 50 cent tax on gas to DETER drivers from using gasoline and to help pull them off the need for foreign oil.  Though I like the idea of somehow pulling away from foreign oil, this way of doing it to me is just crazy. Soon enough employers will have "I dont have enough money for gas" as their number one excuse why people call in, except this time it wont be an excuse!

i paid $3.16 today for 87. (with 5cents off a gallon with my meijers credit card) $43 dollars later my tank was full

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I live in San Antonio, and the prices are neatly cheaper then up north in Michigan (I know you said this was AZ)  but for those who didnt read, I am not sure which Senator it is in Michigan, but they are proposing a 50 cent tax on gas to DETER drivers from using gasoline and to help pull them off the need for foreign oil.  Though I like the idea of somehow pulling away from foreign oil, this way of doing it to me is just crazy. Soon enough employers will have "I dont have enough money for gas" as their number one excuse why people call in, except this time it wont be an excuse!

 
Here's the article on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298271,00.html
 

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ORIGINAL: The_Michigan_Man

I live in San Antonio, and the prices are neatly cheaper then up north in Michigan (I know you said this was AZ)  but for those who didnt read, I am not sure which Senator it is in Michigan, but they are proposing a 50 cent tax on gas to DETER drivers from using gasoline and to help pull them off the need for foreign oil.  Though I like the idea of somehow pulling away from foreign oil, this way of doing it to me is just crazy. Soon enough employers will have "I dont have enough money for gas" as their number one excuse why people call in, except this time it wont be an excuse!

Here's the article on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298271,00.html

 
thats messed up. the infrastructure isnt there right now for anything else. we have to use gas untill something better is more ready available

Wal-Mart down here always has good deals. Usually at leats 10 cents cheaper than anyone.

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I live in San Antonio, and the prices are neatly cheaper then up north in Michigan (I know you said this was AZ)  but for those who didnt read, I am not sure which Senator it is in Michigan, but they are proposing a 50 cent tax on gas to DETER drivers from using gasoline and to help pull them off the need for foreign oil.  Though I like the idea of somehow pulling away from foreign oil, this way of doing it to me is just crazy. Soon enough employers will have "I dont have enough money for gas" as their number one excuse why people call in, except this time it wont be an excuse!

Here's the article on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298271,00.html

thats messed up. the infrastructure isnt there right now for anything else. we have to use gas untill something better is more ready available

 
Is he up for re-election this year?  He might be tossing in a proposal that he know will fail just to get some environmental votes/donations, or instant news coverage...

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20-15-1 ND
57-42-6 OSU
67-25-3 MSU

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ORIGINAL: The_Michigan_Man

I live in San Antonio, and the prices are neatly cheaper then up north in Michigan (I know you said this was AZ)  but for those who didnt read, I am not sure which Senator it is in Michigan, but they are proposing a 50 cent tax on gas to DETER drivers from using gasoline and to help pull them off the need for foreign oil.  Though I like the idea of somehow pulling away from foreign oil, this way of doing it to me is just crazy. Soon enough employers will have "I dont have enough money for gas" as their number one excuse why people call in, except this time it wont be an excuse!

Here's the article on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298271,00.html

thats messed up. the infrastructure isnt there right now for anything else. we have to use gas untill something better is more ready available

Is he up for re-election this year?  He might be tossing in a proposal that he know will fail just to get some environmental votes/donations, or instant news coverage...

After 52 years in Congress, I'd say it's more a case of he doesn't care if he get's re-elected or commits political suicide

$3.95/gal all over town today!!  

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$3.95/gal all over town today!!  

For regular?
 
It was still $3.43/gallon here in the Valley when I filled up my intended's Jeep on Sunday.
 

   Free TK   

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$3.95/gal all over town today!!  

same story here in Ann Arbor. i wanted to cry :(

on the darkest of days the sun still shines. 

Roger......Regular unleaded 

$3.98 - 3.99  for a gallon of REGULAR!

And this is in Northern Lower Michigan!
EEEEEKKKK!!!!!

I paid $3.95 today in Wixom.

its up to $4.09 at Metro Airport. it was on the news.

on the darkest of days the sun still shines. 

On Monday it was 3.98/gal here in Salem, Ohio
 
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

I got $120 worth of gas for $.03 yesterday morning.  My mom had her Giant Eagle card up to $4.49 off per gallon.  I got the 30 gallon max @ $3.99 for 3 cents. 

See you in another life, brother.

In Akron it has been lingering near and above 4.

I'm in the Bay Area of California visiting and it's about the same as back home in Michigan, mostly between $3.95 and $4.05.

 
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I gotta tell, I'm really amazed.  I thought this topic was going to quickly go into the whole 'war for oil' spiral but I guess thats been done the death, huh?  Get it, done to death?  Man, I crack myself up.