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- From: tilley@leads15.UUCP (Tom Tilley)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Price of Gas
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.201848.9405@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:18:48 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.165903.8680@informix.com>
- Sender: news@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Reply-To: tilley@sunfse.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com
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- Organization: LOCKHEED, Sunnyvale, CA
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- In article <1993Jan26.165903.8680@informix.com> nickh@informix.com (Nick Hecker) writes:
- >
- >... I use super unleaded in my old Chevy so it doesn't ping and
- >while I was in both Michigan and Kansas I noticed the average
- >price running from $1.12 to $1.16 per gallon.
- >When I got back to CA I realized that the average price, even
- >at ARCO, was any where from $1.38 to $1.52.
-
- >... I haven't been able to keep track of local tax issues lately,
- >but has some huge new tax been added to the price of CA gas?
-
- I use regular unleaded gasoline. When I went to MI over Christmas,
- the price in Davison, MI was $0.949/gal (I understand $0.05/gal. of
- the difference is explained by the fact that the fuel there is not
- oxygenated like it is here from 11/1 - 1/31). Here in Sunnyvale,
- it is $1.279/gal. The cheapest I've seen in the bay area is $1.229
- in San Carlos.
-
- The entire difference, however, is not found in state taxes (which
- according to the sign posted at ARCO amount to $0.15/gal). I travel
- to Truckee during the winter (for obvious reasons), and on the way
- to Truckee I fill the tank at the Rocklin Rd. ARCO (Rocklin, CA).
- The price there is 1.129. The price at the Hammer Rd. ARCO (Stockton)
- is similar.
-
- I have normally noticed a $0.05/gal. difference between Central Valley
- and Bay Area prices (Bay Area higher). The difference has risen to
- $0.15/gal (oxygenated fuel in both places). I too am curious as to why.
-
- Tom.
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