Shopping out of town not a real savings

I overheard a comment by a Malta citizen the other day. In so many words, they were stating how they could go out of town and save money rather than shopping locally. I cannot deny that goods and services are a bit more expensive here than in the bigger towns of our state. But do you really think you are going to save money by driving out of town to do your shopping? Let’s do a little math and see what we come up with. Using Havre as an example because they have Walmart and North Forty (For-merly Shipton’s Big R).

Just for simplicities sake, let us say your vehicle gets 20 MPG average between...