{"id":21468,"date":"2009-01-29T18:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T02:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=861"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:46:14","slug":"parking-disappointment-and-free-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/parking-disappointment-and-free-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking Disappointment and Free Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, so much for getting a super cheap, 60$\/month parking pass! As it turns out, the pass takes a week to process, so I would have had to pay for a full February pass and<\/em> daily parking for the first week, and there is a three month minimum contract, with a really arcane cancellation policy. That said, I calculated how much it would cost me to pay for daily parking vs. the bus and it’s only a 15$ difference. Moreover, I just checked my Petro-Points balance and discovered that I have enough for a couple hundred dollars worth of free gas (and this after redeeming some in December for Miranda), so I don’t need to worry about gas for the toad this spring (and I’ll have plenty of time to rebuild my balance for the next time Miranda needs a fill). I am therefore going to suck up the 15$ difference and enjoy my extra 40 minutes a day!<\/p>\n

Petro-Points are worthy of a sidebar. For several years now, I’ve used a Citibank MasterCard linked to the Petro-Points reward programme. All my purchases earn me points which I can then redeem for gas or other goodies. I didn’t drive much for about a year, so every month or so I would redeem points for a 25$ amazon.ca gift card! These days, I save my points for gas (gee, I wonder why), and even though I can’t possibly spend enough to fully cover my gas expenditures (well I could, but then I’d rack up debt which would negate the point of the exercise!), I do spend enough to take a huge bite out of the gas budget. This is truly ‘free’ money seeing as I pay off my MasterCard in full every single month. I belong to quite a few rewards programmes and Petro-Points is by far the most rewarding. I also like that I can double up on points by getting gas at Esso to get both Petro-Points and Aero-Points or at Shell to get the Petro-Points and Airmiles. I don’t buy into the ‘2 cents off per litre’ hype from Petro-Canada, though, seeing as their gas tends to be more expensive. I only get it with gift cards! I highly recommend the Citibank Petro-Points MasterCard to anyone who is disciplined enough to pay off their card in full each month (since the card has a hefty 19.5% interest rate!). No, this paragraph was not sponsored by Citibank. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Random RVing thought of the day, as I lit the stove: “There is something delightfully primitive and elemental about needing fire to cook.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, so much for getting a super cheap, 60$\/month parking pass! As it turns out, the pass takes a week to process, so I would have had to pay for a full February pass and daily parking for the first week, and there is a three month minimum contract, with a really arcane cancellation policy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,1464,635,5,1375,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-new-westminster","category-north-america","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}