"mindenpilot" wrote in message
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"jim rosinski" wrote in message
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mindenpilot wrote:

What makes it worse is they said, "There's no fee if you get 15
gallons of fuel".
That sounded OK to me. I was almost full anyway.
18 gallons of fuel at $3.73 a gallon!

Hard to see how providing a second option "makes it worse". 15 gallons
is a pretty small number, so I think this option takes quite a bit of
the sting out of having to otherwise spend $15 for pretty close to
nothing.

Jim Rosinski


Or so they'd have you think.
It was worse because it would have been cheaper to just pay the $15 pay
for the difference in price on 18 gallons.
If I was empty, it would have cost me $60 more to fill up there than at my
home base.
If you subtract out the $15 fee that I didn't pay by buying fuel, I'm
still $45 in the hole!

Just a bummer all the way around.
The two other places that sell 100LL at Reno charge $3.99 and $3.50, so
Sierra is right in the middle.
Similar to the original question I posed, how is it that there is a $0.50
difference at the same airport?
That's a 15% difference (from the lowest to highest)?

If you were empty and did not want to pay that price for fuel, I guess it
would have cost you a lot more to get home and without the aircraft. What
do you want, welfare?