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Originally Posted by JJ 911SC
Ogdensburg NY...
50 minutes drive from Ottawa. The 30 Cents difference on the liters pay for the trip (70 liters tank) and I pick up all my PP delivery at the UPS store, shop at Lowes, Wal-Mart and a real Price Chopper grocery store.
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The savings for some seems to be hard to figure out. They come back with "my time is worth money". They make make $50 an hour at work, but most people make $0 an hour outside of work.
Every $100 savings in parts and accessory purchases reduces my taxes paid by $13.
Every "larger than ours" jug of Mobil 1 that I buy at Wal-Mart saves me at least $15...or more.
It costs me less than $28 in gas and bridge tolls which is covered many times over by my tax savings and whatever else I just buy while I'm down there.
According to my Excel spreadsheet, my savings are 43%.
And the best part of shopping stateside is (and this is what I find so funny), how it pi$$es off those ultra patriotic, anti-American Canadians with their heads stuck in the sand. I have a few of those at work and you'll also find a few of them on forums as well....it bugs them to no end. Good!