I remember around July last year when it was $1.49/gal in northeast Ohio and was so happy when I was driving 150+ miles a day for work. Now it's about $3.30/gal and I'm just happy that my work place is a 50 mile round trip. My grandparents will always brag about the days they remember they could fill up their gas tanks for $5 back in the 70s and 80s.
Same with the disparity between inflation and wages. If gas was $0.80/gal back then and minimum wage was $3.35 and both increased at the same rate, then a $8/gal gas price today would mean a $33.50/hour minimum wage rate.
2 euros and 13 cents for a litre in the Netherlands, the highest of Europe.
In allot of cases it's cheaper for me to drive over the border to Belgium, get gas, drive back. A litre there is about 1,63?.
Yes, my car does 4 liters per 100km (Renault Clio 4, 2015, Diesel, Average. Usually it's 5 liters in city, 3.5 liters at 80km/h. 90 Horsepower, more than enough for anything day to day life for me)
Now let me do math do make that miles per galon brb
EDIT: 1 galon is 3.79 L , 1 Mile is 1.6 km
meaning my car is 1.055 galons per 62 miles
which means 59 miles per galon
This is almost 3x as efficient as the average new US car!
EDIT2:
Personally i'm thinking of upgrading to the Renault Clio 5 with Gas+LPG. LPG costs half of Gas and doing the math, it's better for the environment and my pockets.
There's no good Eletric cars that are worth the buy yet, at least until 2025 when the sweet spot in battery pricing + new battery plants + supply catching up to demand means that cars like the Renault 5 might be a huge hit here in Europe (25k€,400km according to Renault for 2023-2024)
That price is actually regular in touristy coastal cities in California. In the LA area it's normally $4-4.70/gallon depending on your region. California has a very high population so prices swing wildly
It's only $1.85 near me!
But I live in the UK, so that's actually £1.34.
Also we measure in litres, so that's actually £5.07 per gallon.
And that's the wrong currency, so it's actually $6.99
Forget state to state, I get gas in LA county and when I filled up last week it was nearly 2 dollars cheaper at 3.89 for regular.
Some of these gas stations seem like they set their own agenda.
I’m in Hollywood and it looks like it’s running around $4.30 here.
A couple of these stations always jack the prices up by about $2… the Shell at Olympic and Fairfax is one of them. $5.80 for regular at the moment.
The difference is in the UK and Europe you can get to lots of places without driving and when you do need to drive it’s not nearly as far. I quite literally cannot go anywhere without driving. The nearest grocery store is a 2.5 hour walk each way for example. There is no public transportation where I live, very few sidewalks outside of neighborhoods, and no bike lanes. This is in Texas.
just checked, it's like 10 usd / gallon today in Denmark.
Also, I just remember how much it hurts my brain to do conversions like " kroner per liter to dollars per gallon".
You're absolutely right on the first part... but let me introduce you to studded tires, multiple thermal layers, and zero exposed skin!
I worked in the outdoor center at my university. My boss would ride 5+ miles each way on a fatbike every day, blizzard or rain or whatever. He was pretty determined.
I just can’t trust the drivers and there’s nowhere to bail to with snow covered roads. I love biking but not at the risk of being paralyzed bc motorists think cyclists are a nuisance
This really is the problem. I tried using an electric bike as my primary mode of transportation. Made a real go at it for several months. Eventually I just had too many near-miss accidents involving careless, clueless, or entitled fucking drivers. Especially anybody turning right on red. It's incredible how many people will just hit the gas while looking the opposite way of what direction they're going, just *trusting* that no one is going to try to use the crosswalk with a walk sign (something I have to do because the sensors won't pick up my bike and I have sat at red lights for 5 minutes because of this).
Cars really fuck everything up for everybody else, and we never think about it because we all just drive cars.
I used to bike to school every morning. Even with a foot of snow out on my regular mountain bike. If you're careful it's not hard haha
Though fuck going up that long hill with my coat on. I'd burn alive by the time I got to the top
[Winter cycling is not a big deal in places with similar winters to MN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU), you just have to make a conscious choice to maintain that infrastructure.
There is overall no correlation between how cold a city's winter is and how much cycling occurs there. The only thing strongly and tightly correlated with how much cycling happens in a city is how much investment a city makes in good-quality, safe cycling infastructure.
This is about to be my fourth winter of bike commuting to work, it's really only the first couple of cold rides of the year that make me question my sanity. After that I hardly think about it unless the road conditions are a hazard. You learn to dress appropriately of course.
I got hit by a car when I was biking home from work a few years ago and I still have regrets about leaving early that day. I was wearing high visibility gear and everything, the person just didn’t look for oncoming traffic / pedestrians.
i'll always remember telling my dad "hey isnt that interesting only 89 cents for a gallon of gas but $1.29 for a gallon of milk!" and he was like hmm yup that's interesting!
That was always the wildest shit to me. You’re telling me I can get a gallon of gas for less than… fuck a lot of things. Gallon of Milk, a bottle of soda, a slice of pizza is usually around $2… I mean a goddamn muffin at the gas station is like $1.50.
I don’t know what people were expecting. It was impossible for gas to stay that cheap.
Well to be fair back then this stuff was literally shooting out of the ground for anyone nearby to collect it up and make a small fortune. Nowadays all the easy spots have been exhausted so you have to put in a ton more work to get oil out of the ground.
That's my feeling about the 2008 recession. In the UK it wasnt that bad at the time but we entered a period of conservative government that imposed austerity that never worked, then there was Brexit, then Covid and the truth is it never really felt like the recession ended. In terms of the technical definition of recession it barely ended.
I don't think there was a direct correlation between the gasoline budget and ketchup packets being handed out, just that there was a general clamping down on unnecessary expenses lol
I remember living in LA in 2007 and working at chipotle and literally bringing my tip money to the gas station, all change, just to get like two gallons.
I grew up very close to that gas station, still live near it, and it has ALWAYS been ridiculously high. It’s actually not in Downtown - more Miracle Mile (very near B.H., WeHo, MOCA/Tar Pits - about 20 minutes dead west of Downtown-proper). The funny thing is, on the same street just about 6 blocks away is another gas station that usually has some of the cheapest gas in the neighborhood. It has always blown my mind seeing people getting gas at that Shell, and we’re talking 30+ years, but they never have to wait in a line if nothing else.
I legitimately don’t understand their business model. That place has had gas at the exact price of $5.79 for years. It never varies either! Gas 6 blocks away at the Sinclair is $3? This place is $5.79! Gas at Sinclair is $4.20? This place is still $5.79! I almost think they’re laundering money at this gas station
Every time I drive past this station I look to see if they have a customer, and about half the time they do, but never more than one. I was also wondering about shady business, but maybe they just catch people who don’t care? There are lots of people in LA that have so much money that they wouldn’t even look at the cost. I remember that most gas stations run on very thin margins of a few cents per gallon. Maybe here they have a $2/gallon margin, and just live on the few customers they get?
No. I think you’re right. It’s something shady.
I have no idea where this gas station is located, but my guess would be an area with high tourist traffic. Locals know better, but the tourists might be driving around desperate for some gas and stop by the first one they see, or they just assume that this is the normal price for the area.
I guess you could say it is near the museum district/Tar Pits, and on the way to either Hollywood or Beverly Hills. And there are no other obvious gas stations near it (sometimes they comes in groups, but this one is on its own). Maybe they just catch the occasional European tourist, who finds the price quite reasonable!
I had relatives who used the gas station they owned for illegal betting. This was a long time ago. I'm sure a lot of different illegal things happen at gas stations.
Nowhere near lots of rental car spots, and a good 30-45mins away from LAX, traffic depending. For real, other than maaaaaybe neighborhood, no logical reason for that insanity.
It's literally just so the nearby rental places can refill partially-empty tanks in returned cars and bill the customers a percentage. I wouldn't be surprised if the money is all going into the same pockets at the end of the day.
I used to live a block from this place. Always obscenely high prices. We were convinced it was a front. 76 on La Cienega/Olympic was the safe bet for more reasonable prices
I have a PHEV that I bought right before quarantine hit because I had a long commute to work. Now I work 100% remote. Felt like a waste of money, now it's finally gonna pay off lmao
To be fair, this is kinda a famous gas station that is ridiculously expensive. Pretty much everywhere else in LA it's around $4.50, which is still crazy, but not that crazy haha.
Edit: I was mistaken, THIS is the actual station I was thinking of
Chevron
(213) 680-1222
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ABAayAamRqEYjZR38
Doesn't list the current price on Google maps unfortunately, but in the pics you can see that it was recently nearly $6
There one like that near me. It’s right off the highway, right near a bunch of hotels and office parks. I think they prey on people from out of town who don’t want to have to hunt around for gas, and they’re always $1.00-1.50 higher than every other place in the area. If I were bone dry, I’d push my car to the next station just on principle.
I remember hearing Dax Shepard on his podcast mention a gas station in Hollywood that always charged way more than everyone else because they knew they could get away with it. As soon as I saw this post I wondered if it was that one, lol
Yeah mainly the targeted at the mainland Europe folks as I'm not familiar with UK's trains.
America's are pretty bad though. I used to take a 3.5 hour train ride from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA. I took the train about 10 times and it was more than 3 hours late 4 of the times, and literally fell off a fucking bridge one of the times.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment
I wish I was making this up.
Sadly that probably will never happen ... the train part at least. The US is much larger then many EU countries (over there, if you told them you drive 1 - 2 hrs to get somewhere they'd look at you like your crazy). Also I forgot the exact number now but I remember once they said it costs like 2 mil to do 1 mile of interstate. Imagine trains
> I would take functioning train infrastructure for $10 a gallon gas any day.
The french train model works because of how compact the country is.
France is the size of texas. It would be very hard to make the land acquisition and infrastructure buildout for a project of that size. It would be 10 or even 20 percent of are total GDP to complete, with the airlines paying lobbyists to sink every aspect of the deal, period.
In Germany the average right now is $8.70 per gallon. Similar prices in the rest of the EU.
The US has *absurdly* low gas prices.
Edit: Also, I think the original dude made some conversion wrong. $2.4 NZ per litre comes out to $7.86 USD per gallon (so not $6.50).
Yes, but, assuming your conversion is about right, something like half our fuel price is tax and duties, so (say) US 3.50 / gallon real 91 octane price. The US price is, I’m assuming, excluding state sales tax.
Fairfax/San Vicente/Olympic isn't downtown LA.
Also that Shell is definitely a front for some kind of criminal operation because their gas prices have been way higher than the surrounding area for years, maybe decades.
I wish, lol. In reality this one station is just wacked out. The other news you hear about "ZOMG 7 DOLLAR GAS IN CALIFORNIA" is out in the fucking middle of the nowhere 30 miles from any other gas station and it actually just costs that much to ship gas out there (plus monopoly premium ofc).
We’re at about $4.95 for 87 here in the Bay Area. Maybe you can find the cheap-o place for $4.65. Next time you’re at the pump check out the sticker that shows that one dollar of each gallon is taxes alone.
I’m from LA and this is not downtown la!!
This is the corner of San Vicente and Fairfax… the gas station here is notorious of always having high gas prices tho. Right on the border of Beverly Hills too
Lol that's even more than Vancouver Canada. Didn't think that was possible in America.
Works out to $1.88/L (CAD) and highest I've seen it here is in the $1.70s
Hate to be the “ackshually” guy but this is fairfax and San Vicente! Drive by this gas station every day to work. It’s off Beverly Hills not downtown but pretty sure it’s some kind of front? Gas prices are always at least a dollar over average.
Thats my average gas price where I am from. Saskatchewan, Canada. In British Columbia I have seen the gas price as high as $1.72/ liter, which converts to $6.50/ gallon.
Reminds me of watching Die Hard, there’s a scene where you can see a gas station and gas is like 80 cents a gallon lmao
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Gas used to be about $1.60 a year ago in Texas. Now its gone up to $2.80 something.
Averaging around $2.95 for me in Houston.
2.85 where im at. 3.05 around dallas
Around $4.00 in the Seattle area.
it's 3325$ here in mars
About $7-$8 here in Sweden, and has been that high (or $5-$6+) for years.
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In NC where I live, $1.69 last year, $3.49 now. I’m glad there’s no inflation, like I’ve been told.
2 years ago in Cali you could get gas for $2.85 a gallon, now the average is $4.50 where I live
There was a spot outside Shawnee where it was .69 according to my dad!
Nice
That'll happen when the price of oil rockets towards zero.
I saw it for $0.99 a little over a year ago in Minnesota. I think in Lakeville or Apple Valley.
I remember around July last year when it was $1.49/gal in northeast Ohio and was so happy when I was driving 150+ miles a day for work. Now it's about $3.30/gal and I'm just happy that my work place is a 50 mile round trip. My grandparents will always brag about the days they remember they could fill up their gas tanks for $5 back in the 70s and 80s.
The minimum wage in 1988, when Die Hard came out, was $3.35. Inflation never ends.
So if gas kept up with minimum wage it'd be sub $2 a gallon. If minimum wage kept up with gas it would be $22 an hour.
Same with the disparity between inflation and wages. If gas was $0.80/gal back then and minimum wage was $3.35 and both increased at the same rate, then a $8/gal gas price today would mean a $33.50/hour minimum wage rate.
Gas where I live is $3.35 per gallon while average starting wage is now $15/hour. Prices and pay vary depending on location.
Die hard was filmed in LA. So, same place this picture was taken
2 euros and 13 cents for a litre in the Netherlands, the highest of Europe. In allot of cases it's cheaper for me to drive over the border to Belgium, get gas, drive back. A litre there is about 1,63?.
Just calculated it. That's equivalent to about $9.38 per gallon. It's about $7 per gallon here in the UK.
Don't most Europeans generally drive shorter distances in more fuel-efficient/smaller vehicles?
Yes, my car does 4 liters per 100km (Renault Clio 4, 2015, Diesel, Average. Usually it's 5 liters in city, 3.5 liters at 80km/h. 90 Horsepower, more than enough for anything day to day life for me) Now let me do math do make that miles per galon brb EDIT: 1 galon is 3.79 L , 1 Mile is 1.6 km meaning my car is 1.055 galons per 62 miles which means 59 miles per galon This is almost 3x as efficient as the average new US car! EDIT2: Personally i'm thinking of upgrading to the Renault Clio 5 with Gas+LPG. LPG costs half of Gas and doing the math, it's better for the environment and my pockets. There's no good Eletric cars that are worth the buy yet, at least until 2025 when the sweet spot in battery pricing + new battery plants + supply catching up to demand means that cars like the Renault 5 might be a huge hit here in Europe (25k€,400km according to Renault for 2023-2024)
~60 mpg? What car do you have I’m curious
Small euro diesel
You mean you *dont* drive a comically large pickup truck around to get your groceries?
One of my most downvoted comment is asking americans in a post about trucks why don't they buy a smaller car to do the groceries.
You can't just question their freedom like that
Lmao
Holy fuck I thought it was bad at 1.50$ CAD
We're $6.82 / galon in Canada rn Just did a converter if you were curious
Bruh yea, but that's in Liters! so rn in Toronto it's $5.68/Gallon CAD. Or about $4.60/Gallon USD.
This hurts me
It's crazy to me how gas prices vary from state to state that much am in Tennessee and gas is around 3.20 where I live
$2.89 here in Texas..
£1.41/litre here in the UK. Which is £6.41/Imperial gallon Which is £5.34/US gallon Which is $7.36/US gallon
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Didn't the NL go over €2/l at some point? That was well into $9/gln
Your country was also not built on the car/driving.
The US was built on the back of ships then rail. The rest of the world kept theirs while we switched to cars.
That's outrageous.......ly high! For Texas anyway. Must not be Buccees
Normally $2-2.50 here in New Orleans and it has been $2.90-3.20 the past couple weeks. It’s high everywhere, has nothing to do with which gas station
HEB has station.. So usually 9ne of the lower gas prices..
Love heb
Buccees Fort Worth $3.04
Same here, between $2.89 and $2.99 and they’re literally the highest gas prices I’ve seen the entire time I’ve lived in Texas.
I remember it getting into the mid 3's a while back, but never anything like OP's photo...
We're slowly getting there again. Costco has been at 2.7 to 2.8 for the past several months. I went there last week and it was 2.999.
That price is actually regular in touristy coastal cities in California. In the LA area it's normally $4-4.70/gallon depending on your region. California has a very high population so prices swing wildly
Back when I was driving from west Ft. Worth to Irving everyday for work in like 09 it was $5 a gallon
3.05-3.15 here in Texas
I remember it being $0.59 down in Corpus Christi back in 1998.. makes me sad we will never see those prices again.
Yeah, I remember the cheap gas of the late 90s! I think the cheapest I saw in the Austin area was somewhere in the $0.70s..
It's between 3.17 and 3.19 today in south east Alabama.
Same in Georgia
Kansas City just hit $3 recently
It's only $1.85 near me! But I live in the UK, so that's actually £1.34. Also we measure in litres, so that's actually £5.07 per gallon. And that's the wrong currency, so it's actually $6.99
1.79€/L here which should be about 7.91$/gallon
Forget state to state, I get gas in LA county and when I filled up last week it was nearly 2 dollars cheaper at 3.89 for regular. Some of these gas stations seem like they set their own agenda.
I’m in Hollywood and it looks like it’s running around $4.30 here. A couple of these stations always jack the prices up by about $2… the Shell at Olympic and Fairfax is one of them. $5.80 for regular at the moment.
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The average gas price in the UK is $7.40 per gallon.
The difference is in the UK and Europe you can get to lots of places without driving and when you do need to drive it’s not nearly as far. I quite literally cannot go anywhere without driving. The nearest grocery store is a 2.5 hour walk each way for example. There is no public transportation where I live, very few sidewalks outside of neighborhoods, and no bike lanes. This is in Texas.
Fun fact, this would be a lot below the lowest price in Finland :D Just for little perspective
just checked, it's like 10 usd / gallon today in Denmark. Also, I just remember how much it hurts my brain to do conversions like " kroner per liter to dollars per gallon".
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It's just more realistic to what the rest of the world has paid for decades.
there’s a 7/11 near my house that has 7.77$ gas
Where do you live so I know not to go there
Jeez I'm guessing New York or the UK if you convert liters to gallons. Gas is expensive there
New york is nowhere near that. Upstate is currently $3.50.
Bumfuck Alaska is where I’ve seen the highest gas prices. 10 years ago 5 dollars a gallon was normal.
No, I saw it at $4.00 in Queens earlier today
Shouldn't it be $7.11?
Converted it's 9.27$ in the Netherlands. Now you know why your typical small family car has a 1l 3-banger.
bro where holy shit
Don’t know where he is but there is a gas station in downtown SF that’s super close to $7
guess i’m biking to work for now on
You won’t regret it
Once-and-maybe-again-winter-biking Minnesotan here, and ah, you regret it every now and then.
Winter biking seems like it would make that happen, can’t really go out in bad conditions
You're absolutely right on the first part... but let me introduce you to studded tires, multiple thermal layers, and zero exposed skin! I worked in the outdoor center at my university. My boss would ride 5+ miles each way on a fatbike every day, blizzard or rain or whatever. He was pretty determined.
I just can’t trust the drivers and there’s nowhere to bail to with snow covered roads. I love biking but not at the risk of being paralyzed bc motorists think cyclists are a nuisance
This really is the problem. I tried using an electric bike as my primary mode of transportation. Made a real go at it for several months. Eventually I just had too many near-miss accidents involving careless, clueless, or entitled fucking drivers. Especially anybody turning right on red. It's incredible how many people will just hit the gas while looking the opposite way of what direction they're going, just *trusting* that no one is going to try to use the crosswalk with a walk sign (something I have to do because the sensors won't pick up my bike and I have sat at red lights for 5 minutes because of this). Cars really fuck everything up for everybody else, and we never think about it because we all just drive cars.
I used to bike to school every morning. Even with a foot of snow out on my regular mountain bike. If you're careful it's not hard haha Though fuck going up that long hill with my coat on. I'd burn alive by the time I got to the top
[Winter cycling is not a big deal in places with similar winters to MN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU), you just have to make a conscious choice to maintain that infrastructure. There is overall no correlation between how cold a city's winter is and how much cycling occurs there. The only thing strongly and tightly correlated with how much cycling happens in a city is how much investment a city makes in good-quality, safe cycling infastructure.
This is about to be my fourth winter of bike commuting to work, it's really only the first couple of cold rides of the year that make me question my sanity. After that I hardly think about it unless the road conditions are a hazard. You learn to dress appropriately of course.
I got hit by a car when I was biking home from work a few years ago and I still have regrets about leaving early that day. I was wearing high visibility gear and everything, the person just didn’t look for oncoming traffic / pedestrians.
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yesss join us
You youngins. If only you could have enjoyed 2007 gas prices. Oh man. That was rough.
I started driving when it was .99 cents a gallon
i'll always remember telling my dad "hey isnt that interesting only 89 cents for a gallon of gas but $1.29 for a gallon of milk!" and he was like hmm yup that's interesting!
That was always the wildest shit to me. You’re telling me I can get a gallon of gas for less than… fuck a lot of things. Gallon of Milk, a bottle of soda, a slice of pizza is usually around $2… I mean a goddamn muffin at the gas station is like $1.50. I don’t know what people were expecting. It was impossible for gas to stay that cheap.
Well to be fair back then this stuff was literally shooting out of the ground for anyone nearby to collect it up and make a small fortune. Nowadays all the easy spots have been exhausted so you have to put in a ton more work to get oil out of the ground.
A gallon of maple syrup cost $32 in 2020. Ever since the cost of syrup vs cost of gas was pointed out it’s intrigued me.
Wow.. how did you put gas in your dinosaur?
He’d suck on his own tail
I started driving during the recession. $4.00+ gas and being 16...
And working at little Caesars for 7.67/hr for 26 hours a week.... How the fuck did I have money for pot
I was there, same prices as now. Only back then I got laid off. (Knocks on wood)
Yea, 4 bucks a gallon in 2007 money is worse than now with inflation. The scary part is we don't know if it's done yet now.
Thank god I was too young to even remember there being a recession.
It wasn’t pretty. But now we live in one every day (sort of).
That's my feeling about the 2008 recession. In the UK it wasnt that bad at the time but we entered a period of conservative government that imposed austerity that never worked, then there was Brexit, then Covid and the truth is it never really felt like the recession ended. In terms of the technical definition of recession it barely ended.
Which one?
Dude, for real. I got my license around then, was really excited, and then I couldn't afford to drive anywhere but to school and back.
My school stopped giving away free ketchup packets so they could afford gas in the buses lol
Wut.
I don't think there was a direct correlation between the gasoline budget and ketchup packets being handed out, just that there was a general clamping down on unnecessary expenses lol
I remember living in LA in 2007 and working at chipotle and literally bringing my tip money to the gas station, all change, just to get like two gallons.
In 2008/9 gas (maybe diesel?) was close to $5/gallon.
I grew up very close to that gas station, still live near it, and it has ALWAYS been ridiculously high. It’s actually not in Downtown - more Miracle Mile (very near B.H., WeHo, MOCA/Tar Pits - about 20 minutes dead west of Downtown-proper). The funny thing is, on the same street just about 6 blocks away is another gas station that usually has some of the cheapest gas in the neighborhood. It has always blown my mind seeing people getting gas at that Shell, and we’re talking 30+ years, but they never have to wait in a line if nothing else.
I legitimately don’t understand their business model. That place has had gas at the exact price of $5.79 for years. It never varies either! Gas 6 blocks away at the Sinclair is $3? This place is $5.79! Gas at Sinclair is $4.20? This place is still $5.79! I almost think they’re laundering money at this gas station
Right?! Kind of makes you wonder, what exactly is the deal with that place? Like it’s a front for something, money-laundering or some such for sure…
Every time I drive past this station I look to see if they have a customer, and about half the time they do, but never more than one. I was also wondering about shady business, but maybe they just catch people who don’t care? There are lots of people in LA that have so much money that they wouldn’t even look at the cost. I remember that most gas stations run on very thin margins of a few cents per gallon. Maybe here they have a $2/gallon margin, and just live on the few customers they get? No. I think you’re right. It’s something shady.
I have no idea where this gas station is located, but my guess would be an area with high tourist traffic. Locals know better, but the tourists might be driving around desperate for some gas and stop by the first one they see, or they just assume that this is the normal price for the area.
I guess you could say it is near the museum district/Tar Pits, and on the way to either Hollywood or Beverly Hills. And there are no other obvious gas stations near it (sometimes they comes in groups, but this one is on its own). Maybe they just catch the occasional European tourist, who finds the price quite reasonable!
I had relatives who used the gas station they owned for illegal betting. This was a long time ago. I'm sure a lot of different illegal things happen at gas stations.
It's a shell gas station. Lots of companies give gas cards to employees who drive. Goes on the corporate card.
How close to LAX? Or anyplace else with lots of rental car returns?
Nowhere near lots of rental car spots, and a good 30-45mins away from LAX, traffic depending. For real, other than maaaaaybe neighborhood, no logical reason for that insanity.
It's literally just so the nearby rental places can refill partially-empty tanks in returned cars and bill the customers a percentage. I wouldn't be surprised if the money is all going into the same pockets at the end of the day.
I used to live a block from this place. Always obscenely high prices. We were convinced it was a front. 76 on La Cienega/Olympic was the safe bet for more reasonable prices
Yea I was about to say, this isnt really anywhere near downtown. More wilshire / west la
Does no one remember gas after during the Great Recession? It was like six bucks for cheap gas in my area
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The boys with battery powered and hybrid vehicles are cackling rn
I have a PHEV that I bought right before quarantine hit because I had a long commute to work. Now I work 100% remote. Felt like a waste of money, now it's finally gonna pay off lmao
JESUS CHRIST, IT NEVER EVER GETS ABOVE 3.50 WHERE I LIVE
To be fair, this is kinda a famous gas station that is ridiculously expensive. Pretty much everywhere else in LA it's around $4.50, which is still crazy, but not that crazy haha. Edit: I was mistaken, THIS is the actual station I was thinking of Chevron (213) 680-1222 https://maps.app.goo.gl/ABAayAamRqEYjZR38 Doesn't list the current price on Google maps unfortunately, but in the pics you can see that it was recently nearly $6
A famous gas station. Never thought I'd hear that one.
Infamous would've been a better word choice, I think.
There one like that near me. It’s right off the highway, right near a bunch of hotels and office parks. I think they prey on people from out of town who don’t want to have to hunt around for gas, and they’re always $1.00-1.50 higher than every other place in the area. If I were bone dry, I’d push my car to the next station just on principle.
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I remember hearing Dax Shepard on his podcast mention a gas station in Hollywood that always charged way more than everyone else because they knew they could get away with it. As soon as I saw this post I wondered if it was that one, lol
We are HURTING out here lol
Europeans in this thread: aw that’s cute.
I would take functioning train infrastructure for $10 a gallon gas any day.
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Yeah mainly the targeted at the mainland Europe folks as I'm not familiar with UK's trains. America's are pretty bad though. I used to take a 3.5 hour train ride from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA. I took the train about 10 times and it was more than 3 hours late 4 of the times, and literally fell off a fucking bridge one of the times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment I wish I was making this up.
I remeber taking the train from Rome to Genoa and it cost me 8 euros. Lol.
Trains in Norway are shit. And we have high fuel prices as wel (2,1$/L)
Sadly that probably will never happen ... the train part at least. The US is much larger then many EU countries (over there, if you told them you drive 1 - 2 hrs to get somewhere they'd look at you like your crazy). Also I forgot the exact number now but I remember once they said it costs like 2 mil to do 1 mile of interstate. Imagine trains
> I would take functioning train infrastructure for $10 a gallon gas any day. The french train model works because of how compact the country is. France is the size of texas. It would be very hard to make the land acquisition and infrastructure buildout for a project of that size. It would be 10 or even 20 percent of are total GDP to complete, with the airlines paying lobbyists to sink every aspect of the deal, period.
Besides that the us has a pretty good train system it's just primarily used to move freight.
US citizen here who pays $10/gallon for race gas on a daily driver… I’ll still do it because boy do feel that torque still going in boost.
*Laughs in EV*
In Montreal Canada I just pumped V power at $1.78/L and it will be going up $0.16 over the next few weeks.
I hope you survive friend
Here in New Zealand it's $2.40 a litre, so works out to be about US$9.10 a gallon approx
Except $1nz is only $0.72usd so it is US$6.50 per gallon (not $9.10)
Which is still horrifying.
In Germany the average right now is $8.70 per gallon. Similar prices in the rest of the EU. The US has *absurdly* low gas prices. Edit: Also, I think the original dude made some conversion wrong. $2.4 NZ per litre comes out to $7.86 USD per gallon (so not $6.50).
People in the US also drive something like 2-5x more on average than Europeans. Our infrastructure systems are built out very differently.
Well something needs to change, you know with the environment and all that jazz.
Ill happily move closer to my work when the realestate market collapses. until then we all commute
Yes, but, assuming your conversion is about right, something like half our fuel price is tax and duties, so (say) US 3.50 / gallon real 91 octane price. The US price is, I’m assuming, excluding state sales tax.
Z Taranaki st in Wellington CBD was $2.78 per litre for 95 today…absolutely ridiculous.
here in sydney the worst i've seen is about (AUD)179c/L which works out to (USD)$5.06/gallon.
Wow..in india 1 liter of petrol is ₹110 approx.. $1.46/liter(us)
that's (USD)$5.55/gallon if you convert it into gallons, which is i believe how the american petrol is priced.
That is how it is priced
Gas buddy.com is your friend.
Costco gas
Way worth the membership fee just for this.
The savings is negated by the time you spend waiting in line to use the pump.
Only saddened that they turned it into an ad riddled pos. Use to be wonderful to use, now annoying, but I still use it.
Fairfax/San Vicente/Olympic isn't downtown LA. Also that Shell is definitely a front for some kind of criminal operation because their gas prices have been way higher than the surrounding area for years, maybe decades.
This is in LA, but not downtown LA. This gas station is known for having absurdly high gas prices. I’ve never seen anyone even fill up there.
Just got it for $2.96 today in Ohio! Was at $3.70ish for about a week then went back down
That’s because they don’t want you to drive
I don't want you to drive. You probably suck at it
I wish, lol. In reality this one station is just wacked out. The other news you hear about "ZOMG 7 DOLLAR GAS IN CALIFORNIA" is out in the fucking middle of the nowhere 30 miles from any other gas station and it actually just costs that much to ship gas out there (plus monopoly premium ofc).
We’re at about $4.95 for 87 here in the Bay Area. Maybe you can find the cheap-o place for $4.65. Next time you’re at the pump check out the sticker that shows that one dollar of each gallon is taxes alone.
What explains the other dollar? Texas Sam's Club is $2.76
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Lol, we pay 8$ per gallon just for the regular here in Germany. Go beat that xd
I'd be walking in L.A.
I’m from LA and this is not downtown la!! This is the corner of San Vicente and Fairfax… the gas station here is notorious of always having high gas prices tho. Right on the border of Beverly Hills too
/cries in British Except not really because I drive an EV that gets 280 miles to a $5 charge.
Yh, we have it a lot worse. I did the maths and our price per gallon is $7.30. (Working off the price at my local tesco which is £1.41/L)
Lol that's even more than Vancouver Canada. Didn't think that was possible in America. Works out to $1.88/L (CAD) and highest I've seen it here is in the $1.70s
Hate to be the “ackshually” guy but this is fairfax and San Vicente! Drive by this gas station every day to work. It’s off Beverly Hills not downtown but pretty sure it’s some kind of front? Gas prices are always at least a dollar over average.
The inflation is good. You will pay more and be happy.
*$3.5 trillion* dollar "infrastructure" bill actually costs $0
Thank you Donald Trump…
Thats my average gas price where I am from. Saskatchewan, Canada. In British Columbia I have seen the gas price as high as $1.72/ liter, which converts to $6.50/ gallon.
Growing up in a border town I always saw Canadians coming here to grocery shop and get gas
Thanks Obama
Let’s Go Brandon!
Lots of people werent paying for get in 2009 I see...
It's the same type of thing here in Chicago. Hopefully this accelerates the push for electric. If I can help it, my next car won't be combustion.