Not a good milestone though. Last Wednesday night I paid $5.039/gal for diesel. That is about what it is going for in the central valley of California. The gas station (USA) has a sign that Visa and MC cards will only allow you to do $50 at the pump, but Discover will do $75. They say to start another transaction if you need more. However, if you go inside, there is no limit. So I went inside, I knew it would take more that $75.
I tried to leave my card and the lady said I couldn’t. I was to tell them an amount to put on the card. I guessed high, $200.00. She ran it on my card and had me sign the receipt. They charged it right then and there. I asked what to do if I got less. She said come in for a refund.
I pumped $126 in to the beast and went back in for my refund. It was kind of weird to do that and I will probably just double-dip the card at the pump the next time.
The good news in all of that was time between fillups. This fillup was on 6/4. My previous fillup was on 5/9. Almost 4 weeks! I had put on a bit more than 300 miles. Just back and forth to work. All of our driving is now done in the Camry Hybrid. I got over 45mpg yesterday on a trip from Porterville to Visalia (about 30 miles). I can live with that.