With China aggressively buying up gas for their national strategic reserve and the price of an average Tesla costing more than the annual salaries of 3 1/2 fry cooks or 3 bank tellers or 1 top 25 fashion blogger, the price of gas continues to outpace the growth of paychecks for the bottom 93%.
The best way to keep your automobile related expenses down to the absolute minimum, is to not have a car at all and bum rides off of your friends and/or learn to appreciate biking in 100 degree heat to your destinations. If that option is not suitable for your personality type or lifestyle, driving less and carpooling more, and use GasBuddy and other similar gas price comparison websites and app is the way to go. Costco is usually the lowest or very close to the lowest price in the area, plus with cash back benefits from most credit card companies like American Express, it is hands down the cheapest refueling option.
Having a Costco membership or knowing someone that does is essential to minimizing the size of pie categorized for gas purchases relative to your overall expenses.
Oh before I forget, this Costco gas location is at the Costco Business Center on MLK. The lines are typically a lot shorter than the ones at other Costco gas locations. A huge plus, since why waste gas idling your car while you wait to fill up on cheap gas? Just follow the lanes clearly marked for the lines you are queuing up in and completing this errand will be as painless as possible.
So with that out of the way, who is available to shuttle me to and from work?