Around lunchtime yesterday I heard AP radio news announcing, with some amazement, that a gas station in Richmond had raised their prices forty cents a gallon, imagine that.
On my commute home, though, I noted the station where I had hedged at $2.52 Monday evening was up to $2.99, an increase of forty-seven. And closer to home, the Citgo at the Neuse River bridge had marked up from $2.59 Tuesday night to the same $2.99 level. Take that, AP.
The best available in Smithfield seems to be the $2.69 posted at Ideal on US 70, Trade Mart on south US 301, and TM’s competitor across the road — itself twenty cents higher than the start of the week.
Even then, none of them offer pay-at-the-pump, which feature gets me a 5% discount courtesy a AAA credit card. As I told my wife, at $2.69, a thirteen-cent discount (especially on a twenty-two gallon tank) makes a difference.
I notice Chad is very nicely not gloating about his 50 mpg whatchamacallit that turns itself off at stop lights. I had a car that did that once but it wasn’t a design feature.
UPDATE: Scratch Ideal. They were up to $2.99 this morning, too. The cheapest seen on the morning drive today was Wilco at $2.95.
