Contra Costa County has the second most expensive gas in the Bay Area, according to AAA.
The county’s average price for a gallon of gas is $3.80. Tops on the list was San Francisco county, at $3.94 a gallon.
And of course, California is still the most expensive state for gas, with the average price at $3.76.
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Once again with this weird article.
I paid LAST NIGHT $3.41 on Clayton Rd. I know it’s not $2.59 but
Good thing I live where I do.
Matt, they always use “average” price, not lowest. Costco was $3.35 last night, but I usually go to Arco which is closer and no line.
Here’s some facts to feed the discussion:
Californians pays 79 cents per gallon total tax, 18.4 cents of that is federal. The average across the US (including CA) is almost 53 cents per gallon. This per API data.
In the 3rd quarter, Chevron US downstream earned $389 million on the sale of almost 4.9 billion gallons of product (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel), which is about 7 cents per gallon profit (consistent with their YTD 2019 numbers). This per their 3q19 earnings report.
With ~$4/gallon gas, feds and CA state take 79 cents as taxes into their coffers, while Chevron Corp makes 7 cents profit.
Bad analysis. The profit margin on jet fuel is vastly different from the ones on gasoline and diesel. You cannot use the average profit margin of all 3 of those and say it’s the same thing as just gas. That’s the logical fallacy of false equivalency and a false univariate correlation.
Arco is usually one of the cheapest to get your gas. Safeway on Contra Costa Blvd, also and if you have their membership card, after filling up a few times, you get another 10 cent discount. Until recently I lived in Concord and worked on the Peninsula, now I work in Concord as well, the price of gas on the Peninsula is about 0.50 cent more than Concord area, depends on station, just like here. Chevron on Willow Pass always charges more than other stations on Willow Pass.
Our prices might be one of the highest but we also have the most improved roads and our emergency vehicles are first on scene .
And your derelict governor wants to use the new tax to fight global warming instead of repairs to the failing infrastructure of roads & bridges.
I pay less for gas on Hawaii island. We don’t have refineries next door like you do. Our gas is shipped in by tanker!
The Newsom recall is really getting some horsepower! If you have not signed the petition please do. If each of us gets our family and friends to also sign, we can get this Nimrod out of office!
Better yet, that will stop his chances for the White House, and force Nancy Pelosi to find another relative to run for office.
We owe it to the vets, our children, and the victims of Joe DeAngelo.
Horsepower, eh? Lets take a look at the numbers. Each of the two recall petitions have 160 days to collect 1,495,709 valid registered voter signatures to qualify for the ballot. As of the last reporting period, the petition with the highest number of signatures (unverified at this point) had collected 91,088 signatures (still unverified at this point). The deadline for the next reporting period, at which time the collection period will be more than half way completed, is today and the report will likely be issued some time next week.
Signature campaigns generally try to collect an additional twenty percent or so to cover invalid signatures, meaning that the campaign needs to collect roughly 1.7 million more signatures in the next 74 days (minus what was collected in the reporting period report due out next week).
So we’ll see soon enough just how many horses are still in the stable …
No one, I repeat no one, at the federal level representing California is doing enough to obtain the billions needed to repair California roadways, solve the commute tangles, and take the state into the next century. With few exceptions, everything will continue to decay. At the state level, Newsom obviously is focused on making a name for himself only for the purpose of his Presidential run and could not care less about the state of the State. His contentious relationship with the President precludes any cooperation which might yield transportation dollars, among other things.
As far as Contra Costa is concerned, it is getting very little from Senate Bill 1 passed in 2017 which would supply funds to repair the County’s roads. Instead, the County is getting something like 58 new buses as evidenced by this DMV description. A move to force commuters into public transportation. It won’t work. Those actually obtaining funds for their Counties are the ones with projects pending or in progress and include Lassen, Inyo, and Trinity, to name a few. Not your high traffic, strangling commute areas with damaged roadways like Contra Costa, to say the least.
http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/
All of our California reps in Washington are focused on Impeachment.There is no time do deal with local issues they were elected on. Remember this on election day…Vote them out !
Edit to my above post…Democratic Reps
Forgot to mention that Pelosi and Newsom are NOT related. At one time many decades ago, Pelosi’s brother-in-law was married to Newsom’s aunt. They divorced 42 years ago, in 1977 when Gavin was ten years old, and with it any claim to even a remote relationship, let alone aunt-nephew.
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