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Most of the time they are in the vehicle rental business and they can soak you on the return if you don't bring it back with a full tank.
$10 a gallon gas is here.
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^^ this
I am in Miami. 2 stations by airport were 4.79. I paid 3.85 down the street. I didn’t fly was just driving by.
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They don't have many other vehicles to sell. Self inflicted pain.
Goffs was a water stop for the steam trains. Those trains had to stop about every 10 miles for water.
Goffs is on I-40 about 80 miles east of barstow,ca. It's almost always higher priced than any other place in Ca. Occasionally the station in Death Valley out prices Goffs.
The trains had sidings they would stop for water and those were in alphabetical order.
I don't know all the names but a west bound train would stop @ Goffs,Fenner,essex, danby,cadiz,Bristol then Amboy.
Then the A,B,C names would start over again .
Then route66 came through and roughly followed the train tracks. When diesel trains came about many of these small sidings died off as the diesels did not have to stop.
Today just a few small " Towns" exist. Goffs and Amboy being the 2 largest in this area.
Amboy is slowly being restored and gas is available there today.
The town of Ludlow on I-40 is about 50 miles east of Barstow. It's also got very high prices but their price was not posted on gas buddy as of last night. There is a DQ there and a pretty decent restaurant in Ludlow today.
You gotta love CA.
Why? I guess maybe I am an outlier but who cares about the price of gas buying a $45,000 to $110,000 pick up?
High gas prices are a local tax thing. Adjusted for inflation gas isnt that expensive over the decades.
Doesn't Goff play in Detroit?
Good post, I just checked Apple Valley CA gas prices and they are much lower then that one station in the OP. As of this morning $5.50 to $6.10 a gallon
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Perfect opportunity to ask you a question. I live 75 miles or so north of LI and in Amytvile at The Warehouse Saturday night for a concert. Gas by me is $3.9x-$4.00 right now, yet gas in the Amytvile area was consistntly $3.6x's. Are gas prices in LI often lower than the areas north of LI? Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties are higher right now.
In California they are most likely going to start charging by the quart (or liter) so that they don't have to add a digit on the sign.
We were in N Ireland about 6 months ago and petrol was in the £1.35/liter range, so it's interesting how your fuel prices haven't risen nearly as dramatically as they have here.
Yes, most of the time gas is cheaper on L.I. than the areas you mentioned. I paid $3.67 for regular yesterday on RTE 112, quick off and back on from the LIE.
I'm not sure how the old mechanic figures. For most people, fuel is the #1 variable cost far and running away. Maybe when vehicles were super unreliable and you didn't have 100k on spark plugs or 100k on coolant. And maybe if you are making $1000/mo payments because took a massive vehicle loan, then perhaps fuel isn't the major expense. You have bigger problems than high fuel prices.
But in terms of variable costs, fuel is #1, tires is #2. Nothing else on a per-mile cost is really even close if you Pareto out the factors.
A lot of the driving many of us do is optional. And there's a LOT we can do driving style wise to improved mpg-- the difference between a good MPG and bad MPG driver can be over 30%.
So fuel costs are absolutely significant, but they have to be understood in context.
Because they have the high volume pumps with hoses on both sides, and the facilities to accommodate big trucks, so they are fast and convenient for truckers. Also most drivers are paying with a company fuel card so they don’t care what the price is.
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