Magna.............$ 12.32 pesos per liter
Premium..........$ 12.90 pesos per liter
Diesel..............$ 12.73 pesos per liter
These prices are in liters... since 1 gallon = 3.7854 liters and today (January 3rd, 2014) 1 dollar = $12.40 pesos (+/-), we can calculate the
approximate price per gallon:
Magna.............$ 3.760 dollars per gallon
Premium..........$ 3.938 dollars per gallon
Diesel..............$ 3.886 dollars per gallon
BajaCactus
"Where Baja is so much more than a dream..."
[Edited on 1-5-2014 by BajaCactus]Mula - 1-3-2014 at 04:45 PM
Thank you Antonio for posting and we hope to hear from you more often.
We know you are really busy , but we sure do appreciate hearing from you every now and then.durrelllrobert - 1-3-2014 at 04:56 PM
Happy to see that you are living up to your profile Mood : Helpful
[Edited on 1-3-2014 by durrelllrobert]acadist - 1-3-2014 at 05:03 PM
Wow, used to be I could count on fuel being cheaper in Baja. Not any more, regular gas in Parker, CO today; $3.09durrelllrobert - 1-3-2014 at 05:53 PM
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Originally posted by acadist
Wow, used to be I could count on fuel being cheaper in Baja. Not any more, regular gas in Parker, CO today; $3.09
All the(middle class?) people that work doing housecleaning, gardening. etc. around here can't afford to drive anymore unless they
raise their prices. Micro bus is OK for house cleaner but gardener has too many tools to use it.David K - 1-3-2014 at 05:55 PM
Wonderful to have you back Antonio! Viva Baja Cactus!
Sad it is to post that prices are actually higher there than here in San Diego (I just saw $3.67 for Shell Regular yesterday).
Feliz Aņo Nuevo to you and your great crew in El Rosario!beachbum1A - 1-4-2014 at 07:32 AM
Along this same line propane (off the delivery truck) is now $7.03 pesos a liter. A rate increase just in time for your winter heating bill.DavidE - 1-4-2014 at 01:28 PM
Partidtad Recursos Interceptus (peeg-latin for the PRI gets everything).
It's not just gasoline. IVA has been raised five full percent. A hundred dollar battery is now a hundred five dollars, same for tires, oil,
silverware, there's even a SNACK TAX! Forget cheap botanas. Yeah there's even talk of a whopper of a proposed beer and alcohol tax increase.
I don't even want to know what the new CFE D.A.C. rate is - I am too depressed to ask at this point. What i do know is BUS FARES are going to go up.
My kids say their customers are complaining they won't be able to visit the beach and dine at their enramada as often.
Hah! Me do much? Fat chance. But I intend to double the morning tip la propina to the hotel maid, and restaurant masero(a) for good service.
I try to think of perspective this way, using a salary of $30,000 year
Forty dollars a gallon for gasoline
A hundred thirty dollars for a restaurant steak
Twenty dollars for a loaf of bread
Two hundred dollars for a pair of Levi jeans
Thirty eight dollars for a quart of oil
Six thousand dollars for the cheapest laptop computer
One thousand eight hundred dollars for a basic utility electric bill (at US consumption)
A new cheap model car $200,000woody with a view - 1-4-2014 at 01:39 PM
i wonder which spark will cause the revolution?bacquito - 1-4-2014 at 01:53 PM
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Originally posted by acadist
Wow, used to be I could count on fuel being cheaper in Baja. Not any more, regular gas in Parker, CO today; $3.09
About the same in Yuma, AZ. There is speculation that the price of gas in the USA will continue to fall.
Partidtad Recursos Interceptus (peeg-latin for the PRI gets everything).
neilm81301 - 1-4-2014 at 02:14 PM
I think you're right on the money there, DavidE..... the lesson is the jacka$$ party-in-chief in DC and Sacto (and the bankers that own them) will do
it to us here, if we let them.
There's got to be a saying about kicking a campesino when he's down, or not giving the guy an even break....
I wonder if the Mexicans are still as happy with the PRI; or as pleased as we are with OB Care?
That's good of you to boost the propina.... share the pain, at least a little.
Neilelfbrewery - 1-4-2014 at 03:14 PM
The prices tend to go up once a month, normally the second week, at least I've been told this. The diesel price is still what it was in December.
That's a blessing, so far.
There are two factors affecting the price. One is the increase on the fuel itself to position it at a price compatible with North America (don't ask,
I don't understand). The other is the IVA in Baja (not the mainland) going from the reduced 11% tax to 16% tax, which is what it is elsewhere in
Mexico.
Using your figures, the price on Magna is up 4.2% and Premium is up 4.8%.
Keep us posted if diesel goes up.
Cheers!basautter - 1-4-2014 at 06:08 PM
Thanks for the update! BajaCactus - 1-4-2014 at 06:14 PM
Elfbrewery... thanks for noticing the diesel price not changing... but unfortunately it did go up... sorry for the mistake. I have already edited the
post an corrected the price.
BajaCactusrts551 - 1-4-2014 at 06:21 PM
Help me here. What is all the brewhaha about?
The IVA has been in place all along with Baja being exempt. The only thing that happened is the exemption went away...how is there going to be a
"revolution". The price of fuel was subsidized and controlled by the government...The free market is now at work... and it has hit some hard.
Nice while it lasted wasn't it.chuckie - 1-4-2014 at 06:27 PM
Si, Si....Bajaboy - 1-4-2014 at 06:31 PM
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Originally posted by rts551
Help me here. What is all the brewhaha about?
The IVA has been in place all along with Baja being exempt. The only thing that happened is the exemption went away...how is there going to be a
"revolution". The price of fuel was subsidized and controlled by the government...The free market is now at work... and it has hit some hard.
Nice while it lasted wasn't it.
I'm sure the increasing cost of gasoline in Baja is Obama's faultSandlefoot - 1-4-2014 at 06:35 PM
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Originally posted by Bajaboy
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Originally posted by rts551
Help me here. What is all the brewhaha about?
The IVA has been in place all along with Baja being exempt. The only thing that happened is the exemption went away...how is there going to be a
"revolution". The price of fuel was subsidized and controlled by the government...The free market is now at work... and it has hit some hard.
Nice while it lasted wasn't it.
I'm sure the increasing cost of gasoline in Baja is Obama's fault
Nope......it has been voted on>>>> It is Bush's fault!!!!!! chuckie - 1-4-2014 at 07:14 PM
Who is Obama? Who is Bush? I thought the president was Pena'?woody with a view - 1-4-2014 at 07:39 PM
it's funny, the cash cow of the entire Mexican economy is oil. now they are saying there isn't enough and they need to raise the price ABOVE what the
US pays. you know, those lazy slobs who make $25/hour... that way there will be enough for those who can afford it.
edit: and BTW, it was bush's fault. just like Fallujah and Ramadi... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/04/al-qaeda...
[Edited on 1-5-2014 by woody with a view]MitchMan - 1-4-2014 at 10:08 PM
The question is, what does an economy that rewards its workers fairly and appropriately look like?
What does an economy look like that strikes a balance between providing purchasing power/compensation to those that do the actual work of converting
raw materials to products and to provide services wherein their compensation gives them adequate compensation to purchase what they themselves
produce?
The worse the imbalance, the greater the disparity. Even the Pope knows that.
Economists everywhere are saying more and more these days that disparity itself is bad for the economy...hurts the balance of supply and demand in the
market place...i.e., not enough demand.
It would be great if there was better balance, that way more people would be able pay taxes and more people would not need public assistance and more
people could buy what they need...after all, they are the ones producing the necessities. Right now, necessities are produced by the economy, but not
enough people have enough money to buy what they produce.
Imbalance.vgabndo - 1-4-2014 at 10:29 PM
Wouldn't this involve the "redistribution of wealth" and shrill cries of socialism?
I'm afraid the 1% in the USA are unlikely to release their grip any time soon. I agree that what you advocate is what we need. It saddens me that we
already DID that and HAD a middle class, and organized labor, and reasonable prosperity until RR. The guy had a bad astrologer.MitchMan - 1-4-2014 at 11:40 PM
vgabndo, you are definitely on the right track.
The thing about redistribution is that most all people are mistaken in that they think that redistribution can only happen by taking it away from
those that have it now, but, what they don't understand is that redistribution happened earlier in the economic cycle than they think. Redistribution
occurs when someone is underpaid in that the underpaid person should have gotten more compensation because of the inherent value of their
contribution. That person's wealth was withheld from them by under paying them in spite of the fact that they earned it. That's where the
redistribution actually happened. It is sort of like the distribution of wealth that slaves create with their labor, but was withheld from them and
thereby distributed from them to the slave owner. In my view, underpaying labor is the same as theft. In my view, the slave owners immorally
distributed to themselves the wealth that should have gone to the slaves by withholding fair compensation. Now THAT is serious redistribution of
wealth!
Also, commerce itself redistributes wealth. Ever have to pay $400 USD to a lawyer, or $200 USD for sporting events or a music concert? How about
having to pay for surgery? Any idea how much the surgeon gets per hour? Now we are talking about some serious redistribution of wealth.
But, in fact, the larger part of redistribution of wealth occurs in the little things that are so numerous that the bulk of cumulative lopsided
redistribution of wealth goes by unnoticed. For example, your cable bill, your phone bill, the price of crackers, your utility bills, gasoline,
Microsoft software, and the big ones...prescription drugs/medicines and bank fees.
Did you know that credit and debit card clearing fees that are charged by the banks to vendors are actually 100s of times higher than the actual cost
to the banks to do the clearing of the payments? We all know about the price gouging by drug companies; just look at the disparity of prices among
prices for drugs in other countries Vs the price charged in the good old US of A where free market price negotiation is often prohibited.
Redistribution of wealth you ask? Well, there it is in spades, to mention only a few.
Redistribution of wealth to many people is believed to be only taking money from the wealthy and giving it to the poor. But, the real lopsided
redistribution of wealth from the bottom 95% to the top 1% occurred in the very process of going from the bottom to the top, we just aren't paying
attention to it.
