Paying $4.79 a Gallon, California Didn’t Get the Cheap Gas Memo

[IsailedawayfromFR]

At least there’s this: The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. has fallen below $2 for the first time in four years.

That’s average -- which California is not. As crude oil prices have tanked, depressed by the coronavirus pandemic and the market-share war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, at least a dozen service stations in the Golden State were charging more than $4 as of Monday, according to the tracker GasBuddy. One unnamed location in Santa Clara, near the heart of Silicon Valley, was demanding the most that GasBuddy’s research found in the state: $4.79.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paying-4-79-gallon-california-000357570.html

It is increasingly becoming obvious that those who choose to remain in California who have the ability to flee but do not are not quite stable.

I paid $1.49 per gallon recently when I filled up.

[Drago]

"Old" article or outliers...my local Costco gas station in Central California is at $2.19/gallon. Not bad considering that the CA taxes are 91 cents/gallon (CA gas = $1.28 before taxes).

[catfish1957]

"Old" article or outliers...my local Costco gas station in Central California is at $2.19/gallon. Not bad considering that the CA taxes are 91 cents/gallon (CA gas = $1.28 before taxes).

71% taxation is an example of government criminality.

[Drago]

71% taxation is an example of government criminality.

Yep, I agree.  The "official"/often quoted CA gas tax is about 61 cents/gallon, but I include the often overlooked "carbon tax" added at the wholesale or manufacturing level...right around 31 cents/gallon.

[Smokin Joe]

$1.89/gallon, 87 octane here (AKA "Regular"). The lowest price I have seen in 15 years, but when it was $4 I could afford it. better.

[Idiot]

Here they pay you to take it.