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Dancing On The Backs Of The Bruised
Welcome To Cape Cod!
The Cheap Gas blog at CCToday is nothing if not pure Americana. When the British tried to move troops on Lexington/Concord, people teamed up to warn the villagers. Likewise, we are sort of riding through the countryside, yelling "The Arabs are coming!!"
Well.. I suppose you already knew that. We just sort of try to keep a few of your sheckels out of their purses.
We're not going to bring the old prices back, but you can save 1-150 cents per gallon if you pay attention. That sh*t adds up after a while.
Gas prices from the Canal to Orleans
On the right is the Gulf near`the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay. He's selling for a kiss-me-first shellacking of $3.99... which is near-criminal for the mainland side of the bridges. Somebody ought to Rough Ride this guy with a pump nozzle.
$3.91, Cape Cod Gas (Wareham)
$3.91, 7-11 (Wareham)
$3.97, Gulf, Bourne, MacArthur Blvd rotary
$3.99, Delcy's (?) Gulf, Buzzards Bay
$3.95, Xtramart Citgo, Buzzards Bay
$3.89 at Cape Cod Gas (Buzzards Bay), MaxiGas (Wareham), and Lukoil (Wareham)... with Lukoil providing the best customer service.
$4.03, Cumby's, Orleans.
$4.68, Nantucket.
Attention Tourists !
A series of little birds are telling me $4.06, Foxboro Exxon, near`the stadium.... $4.09, Fairfield, CT.... $3.75, New Jersey.... $3.90s, Florida.... $3.75, Alabama...
Tourists... be sure to ask locals about the Cape Cod Tunnel shown on right.
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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.
Wareham/Bourne Gas Prices
April showers bring May price increases
We took the Monponsett AR-175 Armored Personnel Carrier out today, and we scoped the local gas prices. Other newspapers talk about high gas prices, but Cape Cod Today goes out into the field and finds out where you can save 10 cents a gallon.
Keep in mind... these prices we list are Gateway prices, from the mainland side of the Bourne Bridge. Cross over to Cape Proper, and these prices may be 20 cents higher. As a rule, it''s generally a good idea to fuel up before you cross the bridges.
Anywho... here's the prices from a few stations on the Cranberry highway... all are Full Serve:
- Lukoil, Wareham... our best buy today at $3.55 a gallon.... $4.35 diesel
- MaxiGas, Wareham side of the town line.... $3.57 a gallon
- Gulf, Bourne side of town line... a wallet-whacking $3.65 a gallon... $4.37 diesel
- Cape Cod Gas, Wareham is bringing the pain at $3.57 a gallon.
- Cape Cod Gas in Bourne kicks it up a notch to $3.59 a gallon.
Other fun gas station stuff....
Gas Station Ghost... http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_16743.aspx
Static Electricity Blowing Up Your Gas House Urban Legend... http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp
Old Gas Station Art... http://buffalobobs-old-gas-station-art.com/
Irony
We're only getting about 175% screwed at the pumps now
The average nationwide today is $2.33 , see NY Times today
The average price in Massachusetts is $2.30 as of the very last hours of September.
We got a call from Jim Twite of Brewster this morning that the Cumberland Farms near Route 28 and Bank Street, AND the Harwich Gas at 435 Route 28, Harwichport next to the 400 Club, are both selling regular for $2.29.
The price is $2.32 on Rte 6 in Wareham, at both Lukoil and with the hippies... who now have a bedsheet hanging up in their office with "There Goes The Neighborhood " written on it. I love those people.
7-11 in Wareham, $2.32.... same with Exxon at the Buzzards Bay rotary.... ya know, the rotary that used to have the tugboat.
$2.51 at the Citgo near the Christmas Tree Shop in Sagamore.... $2.65 at the Citgo on 28 South in Bourne.... $2.64 at the Citgo on 28A, Bourne/Falmouth line, with $2.89 diesel for all you mothertruckers.
A friend of mine from my Worcester State College tells me that you can make the short trip over the bridge to Littleton for their $2.19 headline grabber.
NOTICE:
Cheap Oil too!
A suggestion below from Cape & Islands Self Reliance is a great idea - please use this blog to also send in the LOWEST HOME HEATING OIL prices as well, or see the C&ISR site.
12 of the 15 highest gas prices are on Cape Cod according to Mass Gass Prices
- Hess in Seekonk... $2.12
- $2.13, Prime Energy in Brockton
- $2.15, Cumby's in Bridgewater
- Mobil, Rte 132 in Bahhhnstable.. $2.79
- Sam's Gas, Rte. 28 in Hyannis... $2.59 (the Uncle Sam thing is appropriate, no?)
- Every Citgo in Bourne or Sagamore..... they run from $2.51 to $2.65
- Christy's Citgo, or whatever gas he's effing you with, West Yarmouth... $2.59
- Sunoco, Rte 28 in Orleans... $2.59... leading the Seige of Orleans.
- Cove Road Citgo in Orleans.... $2.59... WHO is the El Diablo??
- Chisty's near the airport in Hyannis.. $2.59... may as well spend the extra $10 and fly to Boston.
- Station Ave. Mobil in South Yarmouth... $2.59.. although the street is well-named for a gas house location.
- Barnstable Road Getty in Hyannis... Getty your purse sucked for $2.59
- Rte 28 Exxon in Hyannis.... $2.59
- A+ in Hyannis, $2.58... the "A+" was in Economics, I presume.
$2.29 in Harwichport at two stations - $2.07 for Heating Oil
Cape Cod is finally below the national average price for gas
The average nationwide today is $2.33 , see NY Times today
We got a call from Jim Twite of Brewster this morning that the Cumberland Farms near Route 28 and Bank Street, AND the Harwich Gas at 435 Route 28, Harwichport next to the 400 Club, are both selling regular for $2.29.
The price is $2.32 on Rte 6 in Wareham, at both Lukoil and with the hippies... who now have a bedsheet hanging up in their office with "There Goes The Neighborhood" written on it.
NOTICE:
Cheap Oil too!
A suggestion below from Cape & Islands Self Reliance is a great idea - please use this blog to also send in the LOWEST HOME HEATING OIL prices as well, or see the C&ISR site.
$2.39 a gallon at Cumberland Farms just off--cape
After leaving RT 25 take the first EXIT off 195 heading for New Bedford in Wareham on RT 28 heading NORTH less than a 1/4 miles from the highway for $2.39 gas.
...and the Cumberland Farms on Route 44 in Plymouth has the same price if you're heading for Boston on RT 3.
While in th West Wareham neighborhood, dribe north another mile for very good and very cheap food at Vel's.
$2.46 a gallon ...
... at the Cumberland Farms on Route 44 in Plymouth, just off Exit 6 and about 200 yards west on your left heading toward Carver.
$2.52/gallon regular in Wareham
This new blog is to help us all find the lowest gas prices on Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Shore.
Just over yonder bridge there....
- 7-11 in Wareham is at $2.57/regular
- Lukoil in Wareham, $2.55
- Jones Garage (the gas hippy people), rte 6 Wareham... $2.52... lowest I saw in my travels today.
- Citgo, Sagamore, near CTS.. $2.61
- Mobil, 6A, Sagamore/Sandwich area... $2.67
- Tugboat rotary, BBay Exxon, $2.53
- 2.59 at the Sunoco Rte 28 at Dennis/Harwich line. It is $2.79 at the Mobil on Station Ave
Today's cheapest is $2.58 in Harwich
This new blog is to help us all find the lowest gas prices on Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Shore.
McFly just reported:
$2.59 today in Harwich Rte 28 next to Dairy Queen.
Before that Monponsetts wrote:
$2.75, CITGO near the Christmas Tree Shop in Sagamore and also reminded us that the "Gas Hippies" on Rte 6 in Wareham were at $2.65 last week, and must be even lower now. $2.65 at the same CITGO station as of 9-17.
Plus the two stations in Harwich Center are now:
Getty - $2.59
Speedway - $2.58
Remember, every new comment is posted on our FRONT PAGE and every other page on this website. The more we report low prices, the sooner other stations will follow!
DemocRant started the whole thing two days ago:
Shell: corner of Boylston and Ipswich near Fenway Park $2.53
Gulf: Bourne Bridge Rotary $2.79
Pat B filled up at $2.43 at the Mobil on Mass. Ave. opp. MIT Sunday.
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