Miles for gas with BP (USA) - ending 30 Sept 2019
 

https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/...y-program.html

Sounds too good to be true.

Save $10 on a fuel up if you can fit 20 gallons in for only 60 award miles.

60 award miles per gallon. Making this redemption cost 1200 award miles for 10 dollars - less than 1¢ value per mile.

No the way I read it for 60 award miles you can get 50 cents off a gallon up to 20 gallons. So that could be savings up to $10.

I agree with chermorg: 0.83¢/mi. Not so good.

A very standard merchandising redemption rate for UA miles.

can be great for a few miles to keep accounts alive or to spend a few thousand from dormant accounts for which there is no other use.

I like this:

No need to think further, and 1 less problem.

Beside - I would rather fill up at Costco rather than Arco/BP anyway.

BP's station locator shows no BP stations in California.

While it is true, it is irrelevant.

If you look at the application, you will see "California" is not an option for address.

So rather than gas stations, it is more about excluding CA residents.

(FWIW - just because BP has no station in CA, it does not mean CA residents can't fill up at a BP station when available.)

BP has stations in California but branded as ARCO -- apparently chose not to include those stations
BP Where we operate>California

Just because they're owned by BP doesn't make them BP stations. And this program is specifically for BP stations.

Most companies that own sub-brands treat them completely different because they are.

United & BP Driver Rewards
 

I'm not normally a privacy-crazy guy, and do belong to a lot of loyalty programs. But this seems to cross some kind of invisible boundary for me, as to whether or not giving them visibility into my credit card spend and non-flight travel patterns is worthwhile. I mean, even if you fill up the tank once per week, 15-gal (which is a big tank these days) * 52 weeks * 2 ppg = 1560 points per year.

For most people on this board, that's barely a rounding error in terms of annual points churn. It's 1200 points less than you could earn on the Hertz promotion that ran for over a year, for a 1-day rental. Didn't know I had a hard line on this stuff, but yeah... apparently this hit it.

I think you are dramatically underestimating the amount of information available about you, me, and everyone else on this board. If UA wanted that information, it wouldn't be hard to obtain it. I don't think that's the goal at all -- I think this is simply a way for BP to sell more gas. It's likely not even a major source of data for BP, because they already have your information unless you're paying cash for your gas.