Gas prices, weather and wildfires...

down home wrote:
We use Gas Buddy and look at prices along the route. We generally never let it get below 1/2. If we see a good price not found on Gas Buddy we stop and fill, if it is convenient to do so.
It gets below 1/2 then we may stop just for convenience not price. But saving .50 per gallon, not uncommon, a mile down the road from Interstates, that's a 50.00 savings on our small 100 gallon tank. Many times we cannot take advantage of the prices though, such as some Wal Marts and Coscos. Just too tight to get in unless it is very early or late.
Our Flying J/Pilot card get us five cents off a gallon. I don't want another credit card or I would Get Penn Fed and save 5%. Between the two. on 300.00 roughly for 100 gallons of fuel that's 50.00. $50.00 x 8 tanks round trip across country etc that's 400.00.
So I suppose I ought to get it.
Yeh I know. The Pilot/Flying J card is only good at their stations but occasionally we have found hem the price leader, but rarely.

Your big RV and traveling in different areas I understand is not the same as me traveling around local in my pickup and Travel Trailer.

But, stopping to get gas at a half a tank sounds silly to me. Stopping at a quarter of tank is OK though.

Again, if you don't know how far to the next station that's different but, in my area they are never that far apart.

On my pickup I sometimes run until the low gas light pops on. Then I have to find gas within 50 miles or so. Though I did see a guy on You Tube that tried to see how far he could go with a pickup like mine when the gauge said 0 and he went another 40 miles before he got tired of trying and put gas in. He was still running though.

I would never go to that extreme but, stopping at half a tank sound a like the other extreme.

Some places out west and in the desert are probably different I suppose.