(No pun intended)
Yesterday I went to GetGo after work to fill up before I hit the highway to head home. Regular was priced at $2.79 and the stock market had bounced back a little. I saw something I had never seen before in my life.
First let me explain GetGo to those readers who are not from around here. GetGo is the gas outlet for Giant Eagle grocery stores. When you shop at Giant Eagle, you earn GetGo credits—the formula is something like ten cents off every gallon of gas for every $50 you spend at Giant Eagle. Your credits keep accumulating until you choose to spend them. So you could get a free fill-up, if you forget you've got the credits sitting on your advantage card.
I pulled into the GetGo in Montrose (west Akron), where they have eight pumps. There was a car at every pump, and four cars waiting. The cars at the pumps each had two five gallon gas cans. I had never seen this phenomenon and couldn't imagine what was going on. I had to wait about ten to fifteen minutes to get to a pump (and should have just gone next door to the BP, but wanted to add my purchase to my accumulated credits—not even use my thirty cents off as I wasn't getting a full tank).
When I finally got to the tank and started pumping my gas, I ran inside to buy my lottery ticket (hope springs eternal). I asked the cashier what was going on with all the gas cans. She said customers were allowed to fill two five-gallon cans along with their car tank when using their credits. She figured everyone was stocking up in fear that the price of gas would bounce back up now that the stock market had bounced a little.
Have we become a nation living in fear?
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