On the way back from the car rental place (we needed something while the jeep was getting its brakes rebuilt again and transmission flushed) we filled up at the Sunoco station hard by the tiny Sears outlet. $1.51 a gallon, thanks to their every-thursday five cents off sale. (When you're pumping 17-plus gallons that can add up.)
But it's a strange little place: the full and self-service pump islands are staggered, so that when you're on the northbound side of the self-service pumps, you're nose-to-nose with the car on the southbound side of full-service. You have to back up and go out the way you came in. Oh, and they don't have credit-card readers to pay at the pump, so you go inside where somebody ducks out of the service bay and runs your card through some bizarre hybrid gizmo that prints your credit-card info on an old-fashioned two-piece-carbon charge slip.
Closer to town, Julie noted that the other Sunoco station had the same nickel-off sale running, but with card readers at the pump. The Exxon-Mobil stations on opposite corners of the 12/2 intersection were at $1.54, and, cheaper as always, Cumberland Farms was at $1.47. They have card-readers to, but there's some kind of glitch that requires a clerk inside to talk to you over the PA system before you get to pump.
We weigh our options carefully up here in Vermont.
Posted by wallich at November 6, 2003 05:02 PM