Some of Hawaii’s previously cheap Russian oil ended up as jet fuel for Hawaii travel. Read about Costco Gas on your Hawaii vacation.
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Some of Hawaii’s previously cheap Russian oil ended up as jet fuel for Hawaii travel. Read about Costco Gas on your Hawaii vacation.
You can use your Costco Visa to get 4% cashback at any gas station. Sometimes it’s not convenient time/distance-wise to drive out of your way to wait in line. If you shop at Kroger, you can use your fuel points there or at Shell.
If you shop at Safeway, you automatically have gas reward points up to .20 a gallon. Might as well use it.
You don’t live on the Big island then!! Gas is 50 cents a gallon more in Waikoloa and Waimea than Costco. Headed there now to fill up my gas cans.
No gas at the Hawaii Kai Costco, so just three of the four locations on Oahu have fuel.
The prices is far better than in San Diego, CA where it’s between $5.61 and $6.31.
My wait at Costco Kauai wasn’t but 5 minutes on the way back to the airport. Funny thing, the gas was about $0.80 less than the San Francisco area so it felt cheap by comparison.
As far as the cost of the Costco membership goes, that is a “sunk cost” – we already have it for home, so it isn’t an extra cost for us. If the cost of gas at Costco truly has approached parity with other stations, we’ll gladly use other stations. That just hasn’t been the case.
$6.09 for premium at Costco in the Sacramento area.
Costco Regular is ethanol free.
You do not factor in the 3-4% rebate which makes it 12 to 15 cents cheaper than pump price shown.
Ben S,
If you’re referring to the Costco Rebate check, fuel does NOT factor in that. They do not count fuel purchases.
The reason they don’t is because Costco thinks that members will loan their membership cards to friends and family to fuel up, and they can’t check on who’s buying it.
Correct me if I’m wrong. Please.
The costco credit card gives 4% cash back for gas purchases
You’re right in that the Costco Rebate Check does not include anything for gas, however if you have the Costco Citibank Visa card, they do give you a rebate for 4% of the cost of gas purchased at Costco. Hope that helps.
Not everyone has that card. I am a Costoco memeber and I certainly dont. So not factoring it makes perfect sense.