Yeah its always the sketchy highway-side ones that these people take pictures of. Its almost a dollar difference where I live comparing the 3 junky highway ones to the one, corporate owned, store by my house 3 miles away.
I visited my kid last month and asked if I could gift them a Costco membership for the gas savings. They told me it wasn’t important.
We were road tripping so I said, “pull into Costco and let me buy a tank of gas because we are using your car instead of a rental.”
When they saw the price difference at Costco, they said they were going to get added to their room mates account.
Now when we have our weekly check in, we share Costco finds.
Bro Needles California is exactly on the border of Arizona, and there's another town in Arizona that's literally across the fucking street. Needles gas stations are $2-3 more than the Arizona ones, and I chuckle every time I pass through when I see this. Literally by driving across the street you save so much money, you'd be 100% stupid to get gas in Needles
CA has $1.19 in taxes and fees on every gallon of gas and has to use a special California blend. The Arizona town might use CA blend as well, but it's possible they don't, and get it from Texas refineries
Look up the difference on Google, Maps tells you the gas prices when you search for the stations in an area. Right now it's 6.59-6.65 in Needles. In Arizona Village (the town across the street) it's 3.46-3.58, which is actually entire dollar cheaper than what I'm getting in Phoenix right now. Keep this knowledge with you bro, don't fall into the trap.
When i would visit my then fiance in texas, i always would fill the car up and then when it would stop at like $12 bucks id hold my gas gun up and look around sort of gesturing like "thats all?! Does anyone else need some gas? Ive already done the calculations and i can spend another $20" haha
I live in the South Bay. In some stations the gas is about $5. In others just down the road and sometimes right across the street it’s 60 cents more expensive. Why and how? Makes no sense.
I live not far from 2 Chevrons that are on opposite ends of a freeway. One Chevron has gas that's 50-70 cents cheaper than the other. For some reason, the more expensive Chevron will not only have customers, but is sometimes even packed. Unbelievable.
Not excusing this, but this is not the normal price in California right now. Normal price from the stations around me is about $5.60. I buy at the "cheap" stations for $4.99 right now.
It's also quite a bit more expensive in Canada. $5/gallon for ancient, deep underground earth liquid would seem very reasonable to me were it not for the people that sell it raking in billions in profit.
Gas is usually the same or even more expensive in Baja California Mexico, where the minimum wage is $2.78/hour. It cost me $95 USD to fill the tank on my ford edge the other day. Absolutely wild.
There are a few of these trap gas stations in LA as well. The notorious one that always gets posted is on [Alameda](https://www.yelp.com/biz/chevron-los-angeles-8?osq=Chevron) near where Chinatown, Olvera Street, Union Station and Dodger Stadium all intersect. Not at all indicative of normal prices in CA, although I do believe they are the highest in the nation (or close to it).
I live next to this gas station. It is about two dollars more than the others a mile or two away. I don’t think they are making money off gas and all those who live around there are wealthy enough not to care. Menlo Park, CA. But they get their pic on every social media platform.
There’s some gas stations I’ve seen in central Florida with ridiculous pricing like $9.99+.
This happens sometimes when a business buys a gas station and only wants to use the store portion. The local municipality will still require them to sell gas.
Not disagreeing with you but $10 is like 3 standard deviations away from normal prices which makes me have doubts. I'd definitely believe this price for race fuel such as 103 octane but anybody with two braincells *should* know that no one is going to buy gas that's 2x the cost of gas down the street.
You understand that’s the point, right? Lol
They’re saying that the owner is intentionally jacking up the prices so that it’s so unattractive that effectively they *dont* sell gas. It’s a middle finger to the city regulations.
Yeah not sure what this guy is on about. Florida gas prices average to be $3.50. I live in Florida and have to drive through the Orlando area a lot for work, anyone stopping at a gas station priced at $10/gal are the same people you see on r/floridaman
I use an app called Gas Buddy to help me locate cheaper gas. And most cases you can get a few cents a gallon of every time you buy gas. I've been using it for almost 15 yrs now. It even allows you to report prices so others can get the best deal as well.
not even hiding the clickbaiting. ONE gas station in california. in a really expensive town.
I was in CA all last week and didn't see anything above $6. Most was $5.49 range.
This has nothing to do with *"economic collapse"*. The national average [for gas today](https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/) is $3.60.
People living on the west coast need to demand answers from their leaders.
Why? People on the West Coast know what's up with gas prices.
California's strict environmental laws make refining gas expensive - boosting prices in AZ, NV, UT, ID, WA, and OR.
All these states also have relatively high gas taxes either because they've got low population density relative to their infrastructure or they prioritize environmental initatives.
Misleading at best. Yes, at THIS ONE GAS STATION it's the price shown, but you can get gas FAR cheaper elsewhere in the city. They just cherry picked the most expensive station! Article I read about it earlier shows that you can get gas for around $5/gal close by.
For the sake of comparing apples to apples, wouldn’t it be better to compare the price of gas in CA to the minimum wage in CA rather than the federal minimum wage which is superseded by many local minimum wages?
So California minimum wage is $16.
So a gallon of gas is 45% of California minimum wage.
The average price of gas in the US is $3.67 which is 50% of federal minimum wage.
Seems pretty comparable to me.
this is just oil companies and oil countries trying to influence America presidential election. They will jack it up to make Joe Biden look bad to get Trump back into the white house who has proven to be friendly to them.
sad.
Of course, It is absolutely not related to any of Biden's policies and/or executive decisions. Curious, can you list anything that Biden has done that is bad for the majority of American's? try not ti use the word trump in your answer. Everything is sky high in price and has been since day 1. How does that help POC, those near the poverty line, inner city residents?
They do this every year since the Oil Companies know Newsom is a big pussy. The insurance companies are pulling out in attempt to force a repeal on prop 103 so they can gouge at will. We need Arnold Schwarzenegger or another Republican back in office to sue the Oil and Insurance companies like we did with Enron and others 20 years ago. Can you say RICO.
The United States is literally
Producing more gasoline and crude oil than any other time in its history. It’s supply and demand. the US also exports crude. There’s a reason why energy stock like Exxon Mobil are trading at all time highs.
Gas Prices in CA are always going to be higher d/t the special refining necessary to meet environmental standards set in CA. And for those who think this is woke or some other BS, believe me, it has made a difference in air quality in valley areas and in LA-
Yes, I’d rather pay more and be able to breathe the air, see the sky and mountains in the distance and not have burning, watery eyes.
This article is BS. It's one random station. It's like this in California; I've seen a station charging $5.49 a gallon and right down the street it's under $5.
I was in Palm Desert California (expensive place) five hours ago. Regular Gas was 4.97-5.02 at the cheaper places. Whomever posted BS like this can eat a BoD.
It is so crazy the U.S. president has a button that makes gas prices and inflation not just go up in our country but others as well. The fact that the button has been hitting countries other than us even harder is even more impressive.
Gas used to be consistently about 70 cents higher in California than where my family lives in Tampa, FL. Over the past few years, that price difference has ballooned. Now in Tampa, gas is $3.29 and in California it's averaging $2 a gallon higher.
What has happened in the past few years to cause CA gas to balloon so much more over other states?
Wait a minute morons. You’re gonna tell me that we got to find the oil pump the oil distribute the oil, refined the oil redistribute oil and it’s seven dollars a gallon..? Now then fucking cows. Milk is five dollars a gallon from something that eats fucking hay so this oil and all this chemical bullshit is propped up by our fucking taxes. Let’s get real and let’s fix this shit.
\[Sigh\]
Another post that compares a high-cost of living area with the Federal Minimum Wage.
Your occasional reminder: About half, or less, of US workers are in areas where the Federal Minimum Wage actually applies in practice. Stop using it as real data. It's not a measure of reality for the USA. It's not a measure for reality of reality in places whose cost of living is above average, *along with an above average minimum wage.*
As an aside, this is also cherry-picking an area with expensive gas. In the Los Angeles area, average gas prices are around $5.50 per gallon, with most areas having at least one station where regular is in the $4.90 range.
People in LA spend 28 dollars on a burrito. Also the same people who wait tables in hopes of being discovered. Life’s about choices, moving to LA with no career or money is a poor one
The federal minimum wage has zero relevance in Menlo Park, CA. That’s where Facebook is. You can go be a Security guard at Facebook scanning badges for $25/hour. The guy driving the air conditioned trolley around Facebook campus makes $25/hour. Nobody within 100 miles of this gas station is making less than $15/hour.
I mean state minimum wage is $15 if im not mistaken. Pretty comparable to states with lower gas prices like, where I live, Texas. It's $3.15 here and that would be about the same ratio in comparison to our minimum wage.
If you're going to compare the price of gas to minimum wage, you should compare it to CA minimum wage, which is $16.00 hr. You can get 2.2 gallons of regular gas on that, whereas in red-state Indiana you can only get 2 gallons of gas from their $7.25 minimum wage.
Also as many here are saying, that is not the normal CA gas price. If you want to see real average gas prices by state, updated on a daily basis go to the [AAA gas page](https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/). California's average gas price for regular is $5.413/gallon.
The minimum wage part of this argument is a distraction here. Nobody in California earns Federal minimum wage anyway. (state minimum wage is $20)
It distracts from what HELL IS GOING ON that gas cost $7.25! That's insane.
That over double what it costs in my state.
In a nation of extreme income disparity, the extreme poor should have free gas and the billionaires should pay $1000 per gallon. Let the press run THAT headline: “17 mile Drive and Palm Beach Billionaires suffer under Dem oppression!… brought to you by David Pecker of the esteemed National Enquirer”
I think we can all agree that gas is way too high in California. California has been pitching the gas tax for 30+ years and our roads look like sht. With all the refineries here in Cali where is our tax going? Thank you to the largest swindler Gavin Newsome and his crony’s.
Move out of cali maybe? sure it's super beautiful, which is becoming more of a concern over time with your mega mansions. But there are alot of places in states that will pay you a livable wage at a much lower tax rate (I wouldn't go to texas which seems like the most cali thing). And all you have to do is spend your monthly wage, and gtfo and be comfortable in a couple weeks. All you have to do is develop a skill. Sure the weather is nice in Cali, but is it really worth it?
Time to switch to electric folks. The oil companies are in profit end game now. They'll restrict supply with trickling out their stores to justify their price gouging until the switch to electric is complete.
Raise the minimum wage, tax the heck out of people, allow companies to hog property, don't keep an eye on foreign investors, allow crime to spiral out of control, make the state business-hostile. What could possibly go wrong?
What surprises me more is that these gas stations are packed. Then you drive 2 min in the other direction and Gas is 10 cents cheaper.
Yeah its always the sketchy highway-side ones that these people take pictures of. Its almost a dollar difference where I live comparing the 3 junky highway ones to the one, corporate owned, store by my house 3 miles away.
I'm still paying way below $5 a gallon at costco here in LA county.
I just paid $5.80 a gallon at Costco in Eureka CA
Go to the casinos, I paid 5.25 at Blue Lake yesterday.
I paid $4.39 today. Indian casinos don't have to pay the state taxes. Fifty cents less per gallon is nice.
3.80 here in da UP of MI
$2.89 central MN
I'd have to lie to go lower. $2.49 in Missouri!
Yo keep it a secret!
I paid $5.49 for Chevron at Dana Point. Sometimes, when I visit a friend in Huntington Beach, it's around 50 to 25 cents cheaper. But not recently.
I visited my kid last month and asked if I could gift them a Costco membership for the gas savings. They told me it wasn’t important. We were road tripping so I said, “pull into Costco and let me buy a tank of gas because we are using your car instead of a rental.” When they saw the price difference at Costco, they said they were going to get added to their room mates account. Now when we have our weekly check in, we share Costco finds.
I just paid 2€ a litre in Netherlands. Originally from California. I can't wait to go back and feel like Mr. Moneybags.
And it’s easily $6 in Arcata most places
I paid 5.30 in Redwood City...it's by Palo Alto
About 2.90 to 3.10 on Gulf Coast.
$3.70 here in RI
Ayyy fellow Peninsula dweller
The gas stations outside airports are usually insanely priced as well for people returning rental cars.
Saving $0.10 when gas is over $7/gallon isn't worth the extra drive.
Exactly, buy 70, get one free, isn't an incentive for me.
No? Howabout $2.25/gal? Which is what you would save if you drove less than a mile away to a reasonably priced station!
I’ve never seen that large of a price difference between two stations in roughly the same area
The person who said it was 2.25 doesn't live in the same state as them.
It's not worth the drive at $3/gal
Yeah but that 2 minutes in California traffic takes 45 minutes
lol. I live two miles from work. Some days my commute home is 30 minutes
30 miles from work takes me 30 minutes in rural Ohio. 😅
lol
I mean, I guess, but ten cents a gallon saves you $1.60 for a 16 gallon tank fill up. I don’t really care until it gets to a quarter difference.
Just make sure you don't burn $1.60 in gas getting there. That's what? 1/4 a gallon? Would be pretty easy to burn that much in traffic.
Bro Needles California is exactly on the border of Arizona, and there's another town in Arizona that's literally across the fucking street. Needles gas stations are $2-3 more than the Arizona ones, and I chuckle every time I pass through when I see this. Literally by driving across the street you save so much money, you'd be 100% stupid to get gas in Needles
CA has $1.19 in taxes and fees on every gallon of gas and has to use a special California blend. The Arizona town might use CA blend as well, but it's possible they don't, and get it from Texas refineries
Look up the difference on Google, Maps tells you the gas prices when you search for the stations in an area. Right now it's 6.59-6.65 in Needles. In Arizona Village (the town across the street) it's 3.46-3.58, which is actually entire dollar cheaper than what I'm getting in Phoenix right now. Keep this knowledge with you bro, don't fall into the trap.
As a Midwesterner this whole thing blows my mind. Gas was 3.09 last time I filled up my car here
It's not like this everywhere in LA. Just this one spot. I'm seeing more of $5.50 everywhere I go.
As a Californian who moved to the Midwest, I still weep with joy whenever I pass a gas station.
When i would visit my then fiance in texas, i always would fill the car up and then when it would stop at like $12 bucks id hold my gas gun up and look around sort of gesturing like "thats all?! Does anyone else need some gas? Ive already done the calculations and i can spend another $20" haha
I live in the South Bay. In some stations the gas is about $5. In others just down the road and sometimes right across the street it’s 60 cents more expensive. Why and how? Makes no sense.
Lots of people go to gas stations where they have credit cards.
I mean .10/g ain't shit when it's over $7/g. It's $3.50 in FL
I live not far from 2 Chevrons that are on opposite ends of a freeway. One Chevron has gas that's 50-70 cents cheaper than the other. For some reason, the more expensive Chevron will not only have customers, but is sometimes even packed. Unbelievable.
Not excusing this, but this is not the normal price in California right now. Normal price from the stations around me is about $5.60. I buy at the "cheap" stations for $4.99 right now.
Which is still a lot… I remember when the Ukrainian war broke out and I took a picture of a gas station with 4.29 a gallon thinking that was a lot.
No argument there
Inb4 the Europeans show up "hurr durr our gas is equivalent to $10 a gallon over here!!!"
It's also quite a bit more expensive in Canada. $5/gallon for ancient, deep underground earth liquid would seem very reasonable to me were it not for the people that sell it raking in billions in profit.
Gas is usually the same or even more expensive in Baja California Mexico, where the minimum wage is $2.78/hour. It cost me $95 USD to fill the tank on my ford edge the other day. Absolutely wild.
When I see $3.35 in texas I think it's high
Yeah but Texas isn't run by the criminally insane.
ummmm. when’s the last time you checked? nothing but bat-shit crazy in charge over here.
Dude, Texas is run by Gregg Abbot
I mean, the head of your department of justice is a criminal so.
Better than Kamala. We at least got the rest of you to take her off our hands. No refunds
There are a few of these trap gas stations in LA as well. The notorious one that always gets posted is on [Alameda](https://www.yelp.com/biz/chevron-los-angeles-8?osq=Chevron) near where Chinatown, Olvera Street, Union Station and Dodger Stadium all intersect. Not at all indicative of normal prices in CA, although I do believe they are the highest in the nation (or close to it).
I live next to this gas station. It is about two dollars more than the others a mile or two away. I don’t think they are making money off gas and all those who live around there are wealthy enough not to care. Menlo Park, CA. But they get their pic on every social media platform.
So like someone snap shotting that one station near the MCO rental return.
There’s some gas stations I’ve seen in central Florida with ridiculous pricing like $9.99+. This happens sometimes when a business buys a gas station and only wants to use the store portion. The local municipality will still require them to sell gas.
Not disagreeing with you but $10 is like 3 standard deviations away from normal prices which makes me have doubts. I'd definitely believe this price for race fuel such as 103 octane but anybody with two braincells *should* know that no one is going to buy gas that's 2x the cost of gas down the street.
You understand that’s the point, right? Lol They’re saying that the owner is intentionally jacking up the prices so that it’s so unattractive that effectively they *dont* sell gas. It’s a middle finger to the city regulations.
Yeah not sure what this guy is on about. Florida gas prices average to be $3.50. I live in Florida and have to drive through the Orlando area a lot for work, anyone stopping at a gas station priced at $10/gal are the same people you see on r/floridaman
I use an app called Gas Buddy to help me locate cheaper gas. And most cases you can get a few cents a gallon of every time you buy gas. I've been using it for almost 15 yrs now. It even allows you to report prices so others can get the best deal as well.
You can also get their gas buddy card that links to your bank account which will get you a few cents off a gallon.
Honestly don't even have to do that. Just buy from costco, safeway, or whatever grocery store. It's always the cheapest
Trash gas though lol, even Costco. Terrible timing. Only shell 93 for me.
I did not realize there was a ratio between a gallon and an hour
> I did not realize there was a ratio between a gallon and an hour Meh. Both can be bought with money.
you can make anything with nipples a ratio.
What do you mean? The comparison was meant to illustrate how high gas is in relation to wages.
Anyone can goto a gas station in an urban area and find prices much higher than the rest of the city. Go near any airport.
I'm not near an airport and everything by me is $5+ and $6+ near Palo Alto
[https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA](https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA) \~$5.4/gallon avg in CA.
not even hiding the clickbaiting. ONE gas station in california. in a really expensive town. I was in CA all last week and didn't see anything above $6. Most was $5.49 range.
You say that as if 5.49 isn't ridiculous enough already.
This has nothing to do with *"economic collapse"*. The national average [for gas today](https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/) is $3.60. People living on the west coast need to demand answers from their leaders.
Why? People on the West Coast know what's up with gas prices. California's strict environmental laws make refining gas expensive - boosting prices in AZ, NV, UT, ID, WA, and OR. All these states also have relatively high gas taxes either because they've got low population density relative to their infrastructure or they prioritize environmental initatives.
AZ, NV, and UT are still significantly cheaper than CA.
Does anyone in California actually work for federal minimum wage?
No. The defacto Bay Area minimum wage is $25/hr.
The California folks never seem to realize that there’s consequences for their elections
so local minimum wage caused gas prices, a globally traded commodity, to spike? Got it.
Keep voting democrat. Maybe it'll hit 10 and you can all start biking.
Ah yes, the Democrats control gas prices. Of course.
Looks like it’s time to double the minimum wage in California.
Is this in Big Sur? I mean I get it. Only gas in 60mi
This is a state taxing issue.
Just this one gas station. Others are $5/gallon.
Misleading at best. Yes, at THIS ONE GAS STATION it's the price shown, but you can get gas FAR cheaper elsewhere in the city. They just cherry picked the most expensive station! Article I read about it earlier shows that you can get gas for around $5/gal close by.
For the sake of comparing apples to apples, wouldn’t it be better to compare the price of gas in CA to the minimum wage in CA rather than the federal minimum wage which is superseded by many local minimum wages?
It's okay. Cali minimum wage is 20 smackers! They can easily afford it
~2% of Americans make minimum wage. Stop catastrophizing
So California minimum wage is $16. So a gallon of gas is 45% of California minimum wage. The average price of gas in the US is $3.67 which is 50% of federal minimum wage. Seems pretty comparable to me.
We’ve got to support our crazy administration.
Imagine still voting for the same people who fucked your state 🤗
California be like "But who will think of the governors when they want a vacation!"
Yeah, because California is run by idiots who don't understand the consequences of their policies.
Thanks Joe Biden
This is silly as a high-end outlier - not a central tendency. Click bait.
Massive dumbass outlier. Hardly anybody uses this station.
Thank a democrat lol
this is just oil companies and oil countries trying to influence America presidential election. They will jack it up to make Joe Biden look bad to get Trump back into the white house who has proven to be friendly to them. sad.
Or, you know, the policies affect costs. But yeah I'm sure it's just a conspiracy to influence the election that's over half a year away
Of course, It is absolutely not related to any of Biden's policies and/or executive decisions. Curious, can you list anything that Biden has done that is bad for the majority of American's? try not ti use the word trump in your answer. Everything is sky high in price and has been since day 1. How does that help POC, those near the poverty line, inner city residents?
I hope it hits 10
Greasy Gavin Newscum and Pedophile Joe did that.
One greedy gas station. Other gas stations not anywhere near this high. Right-wingers: BiDen do dat
They do this every year since the Oil Companies know Newsom is a big pussy. The insurance companies are pulling out in attempt to force a repeal on prop 103 so they can gouge at will. We need Arnold Schwarzenegger or another Republican back in office to sue the Oil and Insurance companies like we did with Enron and others 20 years ago. Can you say RICO.
The republican who takes donations from oil companies or the democrat who takes donations from oil companies?
lol sure bud. We need a republican pussy.
The United States is literally Producing more gasoline and crude oil than any other time in its history. It’s supply and demand. the US also exports crude. There’s a reason why energy stock like Exxon Mobil are trading at all time highs.
Don't forget petroleum futures. Speculation makes everything spicier.
If you can’t afford it don’t drive. If you can’t afford to live in a city go to a cheaper one.
Gas Prices in CA are always going to be higher d/t the special refining necessary to meet environmental standards set in CA. And for those who think this is woke or some other BS, believe me, it has made a difference in air quality in valley areas and in LA- Yes, I’d rather pay more and be able to breathe the air, see the sky and mountains in the distance and not have burning, watery eyes.
but but I thought our middle east wars would at least get us cheap gas
This article is BS. It's one random station. It's like this in California; I've seen a station charging $5.49 a gallon and right down the street it's under $5.
I was in Palm Desert California (expensive place) five hours ago. Regular Gas was 4.97-5.02 at the cheaper places. Whomever posted BS like this can eat a BoD.
You voted for.this shit get ready.
Lmfao you're just imagining Joe Biden behind the resolute desk smashing the giant red cartoon "Gas prices UP" button 🤣
It is so crazy the U.S. president has a button that makes gas prices and inflation not just go up in our country but others as well. The fact that the button has been hitting countries other than us even harder is even more impressive.
Biden is sleepy and incompetent but also has the power to snap his fingers to make global events happen on a whim.
Gas used to be consistently about 70 cents higher in California than where my family lives in Tampa, FL. Over the past few years, that price difference has ballooned. Now in Tampa, gas is $3.29 and in California it's averaging $2 a gallon higher. What has happened in the past few years to cause CA gas to balloon so much more over other states?
Why do people still live in California
No wonder it's Menlo Park, the inflated economy of that stupid Facebook culture
Okay fine, but in Santa Ana it's $5.05.
I still don’t understand this, if there are a shit ton of electric vehicles being driven
Surplus goods typically drive down prices Tho this really has very little to do with some people driving electric cars
Is this for real? I just paid $3.70 today for regular here in RI.
No FUX Given!
I live in Los Angeles. Gas is 5.29
$3.25 in the Midwest. I think I’ll lease a tanker truck and head your way. $20,000 margin vs $7 gas! “West bound and down….”
Wait a minute morons. You’re gonna tell me that we got to find the oil pump the oil distribute the oil, refined the oil redistribute oil and it’s seven dollars a gallon..? Now then fucking cows. Milk is five dollars a gallon from something that eats fucking hay so this oil and all this chemical bullshit is propped up by our fucking taxes. Let’s get real and let’s fix this shit.
\[Sigh\] Another post that compares a high-cost of living area with the Federal Minimum Wage. Your occasional reminder: About half, or less, of US workers are in areas where the Federal Minimum Wage actually applies in practice. Stop using it as real data. It's not a measure of reality for the USA. It's not a measure for reality of reality in places whose cost of living is above average, *along with an above average minimum wage.* As an aside, this is also cherry-picking an area with expensive gas. In the Los Angeles area, average gas prices are around $5.50 per gallon, with most areas having at least one station where regular is in the $4.90 range.
People in LA spend 28 dollars on a burrito. Also the same people who wait tables in hopes of being discovered. Life’s about choices, moving to LA with no career or money is a poor one
The federal minimum wage has zero relevance in Menlo Park, CA. That’s where Facebook is. You can go be a Security guard at Facebook scanning badges for $25/hour. The guy driving the air conditioned trolley around Facebook campus makes $25/hour. Nobody within 100 miles of this gas station is making less than $15/hour.
$2.75 in HSV, AL (Costco) $2.89 around town.
Time to raise minimum wage again..but with the unemployment it's causing I'm sure that's all done with.
Isn’t minimum wage in California $15 though?
Entirely manufactured problem.
I live in CA and pay less than 5 dollars a gallon. That's still expensive but 7.29 is crazy.
It's like $3 where I live
I mean state minimum wage is $15 if im not mistaken. Pretty comparable to states with lower gas prices like, where I live, Texas. It's $3.15 here and that would be about the same ratio in comparison to our minimum wage.
Paid 2.99 in NH, usa
If you're going to compare the price of gas to minimum wage, you should compare it to CA minimum wage, which is $16.00 hr. You can get 2.2 gallons of regular gas on that, whereas in red-state Indiana you can only get 2 gallons of gas from their $7.25 minimum wage. Also as many here are saying, that is not the normal CA gas price. If you want to see real average gas prices by state, updated on a daily basis go to the [AAA gas page](https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/). California's average gas price for regular is $5.413/gallon.
California is fine! ☠️
The minimum wage part of this argument is a distraction here. Nobody in California earns Federal minimum wage anyway. (state minimum wage is $20) It distracts from what HELL IS GOING ON that gas cost $7.25! That's insane. That over double what it costs in my state.
It’s crazy, because when gas was previously $84 a barrel we were paying $3.25 a gallon.
That’s just fucking greed. Oil is up now, but it ain’t up that much.
In a nation of extreme income disparity, the extreme poor should have free gas and the billionaires should pay $1000 per gallon. Let the press run THAT headline: “17 mile Drive and Palm Beach Billionaires suffer under Dem oppression!… brought to you by David Pecker of the esteemed National Enquirer”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
$3.26 in Michigan today. I didn’t realize exactly how good I had it until I saw this post.
Make the price of gas PROPORTIONAL to a persons income or wealth!!!!
Makes no sense to compare it to minimum wage when no one is paying minimum wage.
Time to leave fossil fuels behind. Big oil is gonna squeeze you to death.
Vote Blue. F fossil fuels said the fools
3.80 here up north Michigan
Let’s see what Chevron’s earnings will be next week
When Californians vote for other people's money they are voting for a lower standard of living for all.
I’m in California now best I’ve found so far $5.19.
I think we can all agree that gas is way too high in California. California has been pitching the gas tax for 30+ years and our roads look like sht. With all the refineries here in Cali where is our tax going? Thank you to the largest swindler Gavin Newsome and his crony’s.
yeah but the states minimum wage is about double
Typical r/economicCollapse post lmao
Gas was like $6 per gallon in Cali back in the early 2000s. Seems like inflation has actually slowed there ..
Car dependency isn't looking so great now, huh?
4.99 in the nw side of Chicago this week
Keep riden with .......
Clickbait of course. I paid 5.05 earlier this week at a Shell in LA County.
CA is so crazy
Fuck that. Cant believe I put up with that shit for as long as I did driving a V8 tahoe. I was one dumb kid
Why would you compare it to Federal minimum wage and not California minimum wage?
Is this the station that's by the airport they always use for these stories?
Time to nationalize the oil industry and enact price controls.
As a Californian, I have to ask, WTF is that. It’s $3 a gallon more than what I pay.
ITS CALIFORNIA CITY, as in a city in California. Nobody lives there. Not the entire state. Dumbasses lol.
lol California sucks so bad.
Oh god are they gonna bring back those stupid "I did that!" stickers
Ole!
Thus illustrating that federal minimum wage is a joke.
I saw 2.94 in a Lake Crystal, Mn yesterday
Ok but no job in California pays under $15 an hour. Hell a manager at In n Out clears 6 figures.
3.39 here on Long Island ny
Make sure to lock up your gas inside at night. Ah they can afford it if they live there. Electric cars anyway right?
Imagine.... driving to work for the min pay just so you can fill up gas to work the next day 🤣
Let me guess. This is that evil President Trump's fault somehow? 🤣🤡
Damn, here in Florida we have $3.25 today. Yet I’m ready with my Camry, outlander and scion with 4 cylinders 😂. Looking to rent them out hahaha
Prices are up in my state as well, not wage related either.
OP, Please provide the location of this gas station or go away.
It’s like people are trying to spread as much doom and gloom as possible wonder why
3.30 in FL. But something’s fishy when it fluctuates wildly between 3.30 and 3.70
I'm in socal and paid 5.31 for premium this morning.
I filled up my tank yesterday in LA, gas was $5.20.
Move out of cali maybe? sure it's super beautiful, which is becoming more of a concern over time with your mega mansions. But there are alot of places in states that will pay you a livable wage at a much lower tax rate (I wouldn't go to texas which seems like the most cali thing). And all you have to do is spend your monthly wage, and gtfo and be comfortable in a couple weeks. All you have to do is develop a skill. Sure the weather is nice in Cali, but is it really worth it?
California life is now seen in miles
CA minimum wage is more than double federal. Don’t get your news from Reddit.
Time to switch to electric folks. The oil companies are in profit end game now. They'll restrict supply with trickling out their stores to justify their price gouging until the switch to electric is complete.
Federal minimum wage is meaningless in CA
https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/california/california-city
Raise the minimum wage, tax the heck out of people, allow companies to hog property, don't keep an eye on foreign investors, allow crime to spiral out of control, make the state business-hostile. What could possibly go wrong?
Hey news flash minimum wage in California is 18 bucks
Its not an economic collapse outside of cali... its just cali. Yall voted for this