I agree. For trips I rely on the Gas Buddy app to get an idea of prices down the road. Sometimes they've changed by the time I get there, but the lowest price station is usually still the lowest price. Having 100 gallons on tap helps me drive through some of the higher price areas.

 

Happy to say I will be leaving CA September 28 when my house in completed in another Red State. Out of this relentless self inflicting painful state. The only thing good about CA now is the weather.

 

Not sure why you'd ask a forum when you can just search it.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

(Damn CA sucks.)

 

Gas Buddy is your buddy, I use it all the time

 

Costco, Sparks NV. 3-27-21 diesel $3.18, Reg $3.23, and premium $3.59. I fill up every time I am in Nevada heading home to Far North Eastern California, the Texas of California.

 

Orange County, Newport Beach, So Ca. prices are $3.89 - $4.45. Seeing increases of 2-4 cents daily. Stations around me are limiting fill ups to $85.00 so can only get about 22 gallons per fill up. Downtown LA seeing premium gasoline at $4.95, so $5.00 gasoline is just around the corner and have seen diesel in LA at $4.75 gallon.

 

Keystone xl would have been a good way to get cheap Canadian oil from the oil sands.

 

It's no surprise that diesel prices probably bottomed out at the end of last year for who knows how long. My wife and I are planning on pulling the toy hauler around quite a bit this year so I was thinking it'd be really nice if I could stockpile diesel while it was cheap.

Since I can't do that, I kinda did what Southwest Airlines does. In January, I bought oil futures (DBO, BNO, USL) thinking that diesel fuel prices would track these pretty well. Of course this isn't the same as buying a bunch of diesel fuel and I could lose out if fuel taxes drive the price up. But so far, it's working.

 

Diesel is now over $4 a gallon in Northern California and if you try a little you can easily pay $4.50. Almost $900 a year to register a new truck, (that's what my 2020 f450 cost.) Then again a regular house in one of the cheaper towns of the Bay area where I live now sells for slightly north of a million, the higher areas of the Bay average 2 to 3 million, That would be a typical 2500 sq ft track home. People ask why it cost so much to build. Well currently, in my low end of the spectrum Co Co county,(were not telling Silicon Valley here!) just for the "right" to hook up to the public water main, which gets you a meter at the property line (its up to you from there), is now over $30,000. Monthly usage bills are of course extra, ongoing and expensive. The sewer hook up "right" is similar (and mind you this fee does not include the actual house sewer pipe or work to run the line, on your property but just the ability to hook up to their in street line) is about $20k, monthly bills again extra, installingseptic tanks are no longer allowedand if you already have one and it goes bad you cant get permits to replace it, and have to either hook up at current rates or put in an above ground treatment unit that takes the form of a giant dirt mound, takes up half the yard and cost, well about 50K. Building permits for new construction or any construction really, would be well over 60k and often a whole lot more, there are dozens of add on charges for every new home right off the bat, like 3k to the high school, more for the elementary school, $400 lot fee for the down the street fire district, fees for providing so called affordable housing on and on, and alway increasing, and of course these lot fees are above and beyond what your normal taxes already are supposed to pay for. Electricity connection is cheaper as long as its close by but the monthly bills sure aren't. .Then there is the cost of the land. Now after that (and whatever extras fees I forgot) you can start figuring out the normal building expenses. Did I mention the sales tax is now 9 percent and they want to raise it another 1/2 percent as we speak? Some Ca counties are already at 10 percent. I have a beautiful low mile, nice running all stock Red 2005 c4500 crew cab 4x4 with a Duramax Diesel and it is now a lawn ornament, It is and has been for a while completely illegal to operate in California, due to the E word, emissions.This truck is in factory original condition, had original CA emissions for 05' no engine problems, and not altered in any way, but deemed a polluter just by its year of construction.and its GVWR, nothing else. And there is no recourse. Get caught driving it and you will go to jail or face thousands in fines and confiscation. That brings me to why I had to buy a new 2020 f450. Don't ask me why i'm still here.



 

Simply put.....some states are run by idiots who cannot understand high school economics class of balancing a checkbook! I will let the fine people here figure out which states those are and how they are run politically. As eluded by one poster here, Elections have Consequences! Gas prices and associated taxes are no different. Here in NC we have a village idiot at the top of the spectrum running things. Our gas tax is larger than our neighboring SC and they to me have better roads and services.

 

Leaving all politics aside, as things are opening up more and more, folks are traveling more, burning more fuel; which also puts upward pressure on the pricing. Just the old supply and demand factor kicking in.
A couple weeks ago the wife and I decided to go out for Sunday dinner and it was difficult getting on to US 93 south of Hoover Dam here in sunny AZ due to the amount of traffic. 93 is a 4 lane limited access highway with stop signs and have to cross traffic, not an interstate with on and off ramps. Haven’t seen traffic like that since before Chinee virus.

 

$2.65 per gallon in south Louisiana. I live in a small town west of New Orleans and have been using the TSD fuel program for over a year and I loved it until fuel stations started falling off the list. I keep hoping the stations near me will find their way back on the list soon though. The good part is my wife and I love to travel and it helps when we take trips.

Anyone know of any other fuel programs or apps that aid in fuel costs?

 

2.79 to 3.05 here in Weymouth in the the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts (man I got to get the hell out of here!!)

 

$3.49 in Idaho last fill up. I suspect it will be $4.50 by summer.

 

i paid $2.99 a gal diesel in fairfield county Connecticut