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Tracking Costco gas prices

Tracking Costco gas prices

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Comments (49)

  • culi
    GasBuddy is great for this. You can see average gas prices across all gas stations for a certain region (or nation-wide).https://www.gasbuddy.com/chartsThe data goes back even over 25 years if you play around with the query params (it started in June of 2000). E.g.https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=f&...
  • 0cf8612b2e1e
    Costco gas is famously a loss leader, typically running 15 to 20 cents below surrounding stations. Is this true? I always assumed that Costco just had better deals/longer horizon commitments so it could undercut local stations. Maybe they even own a refinery just to maintain the best margin.
  • xnx
    > Tracking Costco Gas Prices During a Global Fuel Crisis10% more expensive than 5 years ago doesn't seem like a "crisis".Diesel seems like more of a problem: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASDESW
  • phainopepla2
    It's crazy to me that gas in Hawaii, 3k miles out into the Pacific, is cheaper than most of California.
  • xp84
    > "a Global Fuel Crisis"Does anyone else find this hyperbolic? Gas prices here in the US are up about 26% from their recent-past price -- it stayed in a very narrow range of about $3.20 for a year or two, and now is at $4.05.A "FUEL CRISIS" is what you are seeing in Moscow right now. People lined up for miles and sometimes when you get to the front the delivery does not happen because the refinery got blown up. Or at least the 1970s oil crisis. A 26% bump in prices is a major annoyance, not a "crisis."I would guess that the person who wrote this headline has some kind of a political agenda.Did he describe it as a "fuel crisis" when gas prices rose from their previous ~2.80 baseline to the peak of $4.93 in June 2022, a 76% increase? Or was it not a crisis then for some reason?
  • NDlurker
    I drove from Fargo to Port Angeles recently and hit up Costco for gas as much as possible. Should have written reviews of the Costcos along I94/I90. Billings was the best.
  • 1970-01-01
    Tracking Costco gas doesn't make much sense as Costco doesn't make money on gas. They use it as a loss-leader for memberships.
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  • monkeydust
    Probably a good index for predicting how midterms might go
  • anon
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  • jmpman
    I started screenshotting my local Costco warehouse gas prices weekly since the week prior to Trump's inauguration, mostly so my Trump supporting brother inlaw couldn't just spew his Fox brainwashing on me without me hitting back with this data.
  • jerlam
    It's too bad there's no API to find the current wait time at the Costco gas station. I'm not going to spend an extra hour of my day to save $5.