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Maybe You're Missing The Point

Submitted by Fred Lee on May 21, 2008 - 16:26.

The point being, you should never go and spend money on unneccessary groceries to get the gas savings. It just ain't worth it. But if you buy groceries regularly, especially if you have a family, dropping $50.00 is nothing. So why not save some money on gas if they'll give it to you?

As far as the actual savings, I agree that if you're saving ten cents/gallon, it adds up to a couple of dollars at most for a fill up. But keep in mind two things: first off, you can combine the coupons. So while one may be only worth ten cents, if you have ten of them, that's ten dollars for a fill-up.

And, secondly, if you were pulling into a gas station and the station across the street was charging ten cents less per gallon, wouldn't you go there instead? Of course you would.

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