Prevost Community Fuel Discount Program

[davidbrady]

Get this,

There may be 5000 stations in the EFS network but the PC program doesn't give a discount at all them; it only guarantees the cash price and for this privilege you're charged a $1.75 fee. According to the fine print on PC, unless it's recently changed, only 68 "Designated Locations" provide a discount and that's only 5 cents off the gallon. If you want 10 cents then you have to stick with Loves. Also if you pump less than 100 gallons you pay a $1.00 fee whether at Loves or at non-love's EFS network stations.

So, for fuel usage so far this year I pumped four times. Here are the results:

Cash price before discount: $2219.24
Discount: $42.12
Fees (including $25 annual renewal): $27.75

For an overall discount of 0.65%, or 2 1/2 cents per gallon off the cash price.

This is for four fuel stops including a very heavily traveled FlyingJ in Carlisle PA which turned out not to be a participating "Discount Network" station. At that location I pumped $595.00 worth of fuel expecting a good discount. Instead I got zero plus a $1.75 transaction fee.