Not a good milestone though.  Last Wednesday night I paid $5.039/gal for diesel.  That is about what it is going for in the central valley of California.  The gas station (USA) has a sign that Visa and MC cards will only allow you to do $50 at the pump, but Discover will do $75.  They say to start another transaction if you need more.  However, if you go inside, there is no limit.  So I went inside, I knew it would take more that $75.

I tried to leave my card and the lady said I couldn’t.  I was to tell them an amount to put on the card.  I guessed high, $200.00.  She ran it on my card and had me sign the receipt.  They charged it right then and there.  I asked what to do if I got less.  She said come in for a refund.

I pumped $126 in to the beast and went back in for my refund.  It was kind of weird to do that and I will probably just double-dip the card at the pump the next time.

The good news in all of that was time between fillups.  This fillup was on 6/4.  My previous fillup was on 5/9.  Almost 4 weeks!  I had put on a bit more than 300 miles.  Just back and forth to work.  All of our driving is now done in the Camry Hybrid.  I got over 45mpg yesterday on a trip from Porterville to Visalia (about 30 miles).  I can live with that.