Cheap Gas

WHOOPIE ! Save 20 cents a gallon on your gas

 Christy's of Cape Cod is ahead of the curve... again

 Both these offers appear on the front page of cctoday in rotation with a couple others good deals from companies like Mid-Cape Centers, Stowe Resort and Rogers & Gray.

The redoubtable Christy Mihos doubles his discount

First he became the first businessman on Cape Cod to install wind turbines to save energy on his convenience stores, then he offered the customers at Stop & Shop a 10 cents a gallon discount at his stations, and now he has doubled that discount to 20 cents off per gallon.

This doesn't cost consumers anything since the coupon is given at all Stop & Shop Supermarkets when you purchase over $50 in one check-out which most families do at least once a week anyway.

When you redeem the coupon at any Christy's Convenience Store you simply bring your receipt from the gas pump into the cashier and they will hand you cash back amounting to 20 on every gallon.

Whoopie, $5 bucks back and bad journalism too

On my own usual 25 gallon fill-up that's $5.00 back in my pocket, and WHOOPIE, Christy  even added a deal on his Whoopie Pies along with the low Christy's milk prices.

But for some inexplicable reason our local daily newspaper seems to like to rag on the guy.  Most Cape Codders are very proud of this native son's success. Maybe he annoys the old media poops because he has a habit of "speaking truth to power", something sadly missing in our local daily P.C.-afflicted newsroom.

In a period of three days last week, the newspaper ran two stories belittling Christy's gas discounts at a time when prices at the competing stations (the photo on right is from the front page of last week's Nantucket Independent) was the same or higher and Christy's discount would have been a significant gesture. Here are the two Cape Cod Times stories;

Drivers not exactly pumped over gas discount

May 11, 2008 - HYANNIS - The gas just wasn't cheap enough. Drivers who stopped at Christy's on Ocean Street yesterday did take advantage of the 20-cent per gallon discount offered, but they weren't exactly rejoicing.  At $3.63 per gallon - even with the discount - it hardly seemed worth celebrating... 

Christy's cuts gas price, with cap

May 9, 2008  - HYANNIS - The gas cap is on. And it's a 10-gallon one at that. Christy's Market on Ocean Street will limit its 20-cent discount on gasoline to the first 10 gallons per customer tomorrow during the ...
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Gas incentives new way to lure buyers
The Boston Herald today called attention to Christy Mihos' new 20-cent per gallon discount on gas at his 12 stations here

Christy Mihos has a solid reputation for speaking his mind and being ahead of the curve. This week he doubled the discount offered at his twelve Christy's Convenience Stores on Cape Cod from 10 to 20 a gallon.Escalating gas prices are prompting some businesses to use fuel discounts and other incentives to lure cash-strapped customers to buy their products and services.

“There’s less disposable income out there, so you have to offer something,” said Christy Mihos, the one-time gubernatorial candidate and owner of the Christy’s grocery and gas-station chain on Cape Cod, where he’s teaming with Stop & Shop to offer gas discounts to customers.

The Christy’s deal provides those who buy $50 or more of groceries at Stop & Shop a 20-cent per gallon discount on the purchase of gasoline at one of the 12 Christy’s stores on the Cape...

Yesterday, Massachusetts saw pump prices hit yet another record: an average $3.75 for a gallon of regular, according to AAA Southern New England... Herald.

See our story about Christy's deal here.