How long do you wait to get gas?

[Chris142]

Wife wanted to go to Costco. I'm not going into that mess so I'm watching cars line up for gas. For some reason our Costco gas is not any cheaper than other stations around town.

The line is 8 wide at the pumps and then goes down to 2 lines, down the street, around a corner etc! So if each car takes 5 minutes people will be willing to wait an hour or more?

Not me lol.

 

[Chris142]

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[simple_gifts]

0 minutes; rural CT; i pull in at the 1 gas station in town and it has 4 pumps. Diesel currently 6.49/gal

With a 11.9 gal tank, saving even 10 cents a gallon buying elsewhere isn't worth the time.

 

[Nick1994]

Luckily all the Costco stations here are a max of 7-8 cars deep, takes maybe 10 minutes tops of waiting on the busiest of days. Usually 3-4 cars waiting.

$0.20 Cheaper than any other station around here, so $4 savings. I'll do it if I'm near a Costco anyways but I won't go out of my way.

 

[Quattro Pete]

zero

 

[JeffKeryk]

I generally hit Costco arounf 7:30 AM so there is no waiting.
Or just unplug the Model 3 and go.

 

[RhondaHonda]

Costco saves me $8-10 on a full tank of premium. Fortunately for me, it’s nearby and the most I’ll wait is 1-2 minutes for some old slowpoke to close the fuel filler door and get back in their car. We have 22 pumps I believe. The attendant told me they get 6 tanker trucks a day.

 

[Jetronic]

I'll wait for 1 car in front of me, unless I don't have any gas left to make it to another station.

 

[Passport1]

How long do you wait to get gas?​

After two bean burritos at Taco Bell maybe 3 hours.

 

[Warstud]

Another reason to move out of Cali

 

[BMW Dom]

Maybe go early in the morning? It's usually not too busy then

 

[HeritageHighRoof]

Usually no waiting for E85 pump and the price spread right now saves me five cents a mile.

 

[CKN]

0 minutes; rural CT; i pull in at the 1 gas station in town and it has 4 pumps. Diesel currently 6.49/gal

With a 11.9 gal tank, saving even 10 cents a gallon buying elsewhere isn't worth the time.

Then there is the rebate on the purchase itself if you have a Costco credit card. That's free cash to you. But yea-what's your time worth?

 

[PWMDMD]

0 and I live within 50 miles of Boston and just outside Worcester in a pretty heavily populated area.

 

[Malo83]

No waiting at the local Shell, Costco is 30 min drive away, then it's packed.

 

[dippschtick]

Small town living for me. We have a 12 pump Break Time and many times I'm the only one there.

 

[Chris142]

Fastrip is always cheaper than Costco here.

 

[supton]

Usually only a few minutes. If I'm on E then I'll wait longer, but sometimes I'll decide to fill up around quarter, and if the line looks long, elect to wait on filling up.

 

[eljefino]

I have, at times, waited ~5 minutes at BJs. It would be worse but I have a Prius so it just sits there not idling.

I've even cut in line by driving through the cones when there are open pumps for passenger side fillers but people don't want to stretch the hose over to the driver's side. You snooze, you lose.

 

[PimTac]

I don’t wait. The nearby Shell station has 12 pumps. I can use my Fred Meyer Rewards too. A couple of times I have gotten 80¢ off per gallon but usually 30-40¢.