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Cross-posted from Dakota Lifestyle:  Beyond the Weather

According to MyGallons.com locks in gas prices for future fill-ups there’s a new way to lock in gas prices:  pre-pay for your gasoline.  MyGallons.com allows people to pre-purchase gallons of gasoline and receive a gas card that, as near as I can tell, works like a phone card.  Once you buy a card, the prices are locked in for the gallons you have purchased.

I looked on the site’s locator map to see whether or not this would be available in the Bismarck area.  There are more than fifty participating gas stations in Bismarck and the surrounding 20 miles…a much higher number than I thought would be available here.  There are more than fifty located in the Fargo area, as well.

The program seems to be available across much of the state, and the small towns are included.  The locator map shows two participating stations in Stanley, ND.  There is one in Elgin, one in Pembina, and three in Bowman.  I was tempted to spend my morning trying out all the little towns I know across the state.

Even though there’s a membership fee, the idea makes sense.  Some North Dakotans are becoming millionares because of the oil boom, especially in the Bakken area in the northwest portion of the state, but the increasing oil production isn’t showing up in our gas prices yet.  For those of us non-millionaires (and for the millionaires, too), pre-paying for gasoline means the prices won’t swing higher—at least while there are gallons left on the card.

I may have to give it a try.