So, are you better off now than January 2009?

[atvwife]

Originally Posted by buzzards27

if you have an oil company credit card you should be getting a rebate. BP is now giving you the option of taking that rebate instantly at the pump. Yesterday without the rebate the price was $3.73, with the rebate it was $3.16. If you not using a credit card to buy your gas you're only hurting yourself.

Chances are most people are getting the same type of rebate or cash "rewards" for their gas purchases and you should ne figuring that into the price you're paying.

Good point, but we do use a rewards card in which we get 5% back, which would still make our gas $3.51/gallon. What's worse is our home heating oil - it costs more than gas at the tank and they're not supposed to be taxing that as hard. Last fill was more than $3.80/gallom, and that doesn't count toward the gas rewards...if you use a credit card they charge you more. Thank goodness for a mild winter.

[brightdoglover]

Better. Was able to refinance my house to 15 years at 4 percent (from 30 years at 5.4 percent).
Financing laws have made credit card payments much clearer- same date each month; if two interest rates on one card, payments go to the higher rate, not the lower.
Americans are largely out of Iraq (I do have some interests about the country at large, not just my little piece of it).
I don't attribute every change for better or worse to the current administration unless there is direct causation. Same as the last one.