Get your gas at Shell today!

[dissentowner]

Shell is celebrating 30 years of refining out West by dropping gas prices to 1984 prices at select stations in Alberta. Shell twitter has more details I believe.

[dissentowner]

https://twitter.com/Shell_Canada

[pylon]

LOL, sitting in line for 3 and a half hours to save 40 bucks just aint gonna be worth it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by pylon

LOL, sitting in line for 3 and a half hours to save 40 bucks just aint gonna be worth it.

Haha! I was thinking the exact same thing.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by pylon

LOL, sitting in line for 3 and a half hours to save 40 bucks just aint gonna be worth it.

You are correct. The pricing is sweet but waiting would suck.

Too bad all my cars are more than 3/4 full.

[albertGQ]

How long is the wait? There's no way its 3.5 hours is it?

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by pylon

LOL, sitting in line for 3 and a half hours to save 40 bucks just aint gonna be worth it.

My car doesn't even old $40 worth of gas, seriously it's about $38 from the blinking "get gas now" light... so Free money?

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by pylon

LOL, sitting in line for 3 and a half hours to save 40 bucks just aint gonna be worth it.

Maybe for you but not everybody is pulling 6 figures a year. Love the exaggeration on wait time, it might be an hour tops. Ask any college student or some guy pulling minimum wage if waiting an hour to save $40 is worth it.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

My car doesn't even old $40 worth of gas, seriously it's about $38 from the blinking "get gas now" light... so Free money?

My Car takes 65 litres and costs rougly $80 to fill. So to fill it at 39.9 it is going to cost about $26 bucks. So +/- $54 in savings. Good deal, but still not worth the chaos.

And in fairness to dissentowner, in my broke early 20's I would be all over this.

[skudr248]

What are the location in the Lower half of the city? I don't have twitter

[Ozy_Flame]

Wasn't 1984 the year the NEP was killed? Let's not forget about that little nugget either

[You Need a Thneed]

Various locations, each location for only an hour. And they will mark the end of the line, so that no more people can get in at that price.

[DoubleF]

Based on the twitter feed, looks like it's a promotion only for an hour at select stations. You save probably around $0.80 per litre or so? Multiply your tank, there's your savings.

My tank isn't empty, would save maybe $10-15 bucks at most since it's at 3/4 full. Not worth the chaos.

[woob]

I filled up at Shell this morning for regular, crappy 2014 prices.

[bossy22]

Ha, my truck takes 126 litres, and I'm almost on empty.

edit: ah, it's just for a few customers it looks like.

[Sainters7]

I wish they were more clear ahead of time about the locations. Off at noon today and completely on empty

[GirlySports]

this is how we get more accidents

[polak]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Maybe for you but not everybody is pulling 6 figures a year. Love the exaggeration on wait time, it might be an hour tops. Ask any college student or some guy pulling minimum wage if waiting an hour to save $40 is worth it.

Any college student making minimum wage isn't going to have a car to fill with gas.

I think it'll have less to do with a persons financial situation and more to do with how cheap they are. I don't make nearly six figures but sitting bored out of my mind in my car in line for an hour to save $40 (that's if you have an empty tank) is definitely not worth it to me. Sounds like a nightmare actually.

[PsYcNeT]

Looks like it's all done at many locations in the SE. Balls.

[Nammer403]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Looks like it's all done at many locations in the SE. Balls.

The cheap gas is at certain locations throughout Alberta, they announce a different location every hour throughout the day. I think so far in Calgary the locations have been Country Hills and the 68th/32nd