I pay 50 cents per gallon of gas and I drive a Honda 2001 Civic EX which gets me 40 mpg.
How do you get gas for 50 cents a gallon?
One of the grocery stores near me has a gas points program for every 50 dollars you spend you get 10 points which takes 10 cents off of the price of a gallon up to a 20 gallon limit per fill.
This includes the gift cards they sell in store.
I just buy a VISA gift card for 500 USD and then use it to buy another one... then use that one to buy another and so forth. I only keep 1 card at a time instead of buying multiple cards at a time. While that would save me the hassle of going thru the payment as many times, I dont want to risk of not being able to liquidate the VISA gift cards or even worse losing them. So I only have tied up 500 dollars in that gift card which is constantly being recycled.
I got this idea once I started doing manufacture spending for Credit cards. But now even while I am not manufacture spending, I keep doing this.
Why 50 cents a gallon?
Because those VISA gift cards have a fee - from 3.95 to 4.95 dollars (so in essence for 225 points I paid 225/300*12USD / 20 gallons = 0.45 USD/gal
So when I Buy 3 gift cards for example, I have 300 points, which if I redeem 225 points it deducts from the current price of 2.25 USD a gallon with a limit of 20 gallons per fill.
Since my Honda tank only gets about 11 gallons, I use two 5 gallon gas containers to fill up the rest.
:)
Which to top it off I also got 3 free turkeys for Thanksgiving at 20 lbs each as a bonus for they holiday program :D