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Udo
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NEW PEMEX IN CATAVIŅA
I drove by there a few days ago 06/20/2014, and the station was not quite open yet.
It did not look like they were planning on having a boomtown in selling gas with only one pump, and NO large highway sign.
Udo
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J.P.
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They have had a pump in that same spot for at least10 years , although that looks like a new pump doesnt it.
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Bob and Susan
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way back I bought gas at that pump...no more
a few years ago they replaced the pump and upgraded the sign but it never opened
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Bajaboy
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old news for sure...been there for many years...
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willardguy
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the difference is now its in Don Rafa's front yard 
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Bajahowodd
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I've said it before. There is no profit in pumping gas off the grid by using generator power, unless Pemex itself would give a break on the wholesale
cost of the gas.
There was long ago an issue about the distance between stations in this region. But we have come to rely on a fill up at the Los Pinos station
allowing us to get all the way to GN with fuel to spare.
And, as has been previously stated, that pump has been there for years.
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I've said it before. There is no profit in pumping gas off the grid by using generator power, unless Pemex itself would give a break on the wholesale
cost of the gas.
There was long ago an issue about the distance between stations in this region. But we have come to rely on a fill up at the Los Pinos station
allowing us to get all the way to GN with fuel to spare.
And, as has been previously stated, that pump has been there for years. |
again, it works perfectly in
gonzaga bay, you pull up, start the generator, pump your gas and shut down the generator. where's the problem?????
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
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There was long ago an issue about the distance between stations in this region. But we have come to rely on a fill up at the Los Pinos station
allowing us to get all the way to GN with fuel to spare. |
Just a request to all Nomads and lurkers:
Please support Antonio in El Rosario and top off at Baja Cactus Pemex... Los Pinos does quite well selling tomatoes, and they don't provide ambulance
service or all the other good work Antonio does! Thank you for considering this assistance to a fellow Nomad and goodwill ambassador in Baja.
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villafontana
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Amen to that request David K!!
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Udo
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We always do just that DK. In the Prius, I can make it on less than 5 gallons from mid OC to Baja Cactus.
This time, on the way back, We were still on the same gas from Baja Cactus) we filled up in Jesus Maria, and made it back to Orange County on the same
tank!
Udo
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chuckie
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Yup, what DK said....
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Whale-ista
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I use Cactus every trip. (Nice bathrooms as well as what else was posted.)
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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villafontana
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Yooooooo whaleista....you still in BCS?? How ya been?
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mulegemichael
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at the pump shown, as you drive in, a guy pulls up alongside you with a 55 gallon drum in the back of his pickup and gravity feeds 15 gallons into
your tank then rings it up on the pump....really?....yer kidding, right?.....yeah...i am.
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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elgatoloco
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I remember one of the first times I pulled into Catavina with the idea to top off tank way back when and it was late afternoon. The guy at the pump
said they were out of gas and next breath said they had rooms available at hotel. I thought that was a bit odd, the timing. I just told him that we
planned to camp out in the desert for the night and he said, "ok, do you want to me fill it up?" 
Good times.
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bajabound2005
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when you see the OXXO sign, then there will be a Pemex there.
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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villafontana
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabound2005
when you see the OXXO sign, then there will be a Pemex there. |
Hahaha..indeed!! Soon Cataviņa, soon:
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Martyman
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I've said it before. There is no profit in pumping gas off the grid by using generator power, unless Pemex itself would give a break on the wholesale
cost of the gas.
There was long ago an issue about the distance between stations in this region. But we have come to rely on a fill up at the Los Pinos station
allowing us to get all the way to GN with fuel to spare.
And, as has been previously stated, that pump has been there for years. |
Thanks for the hot tip. I'll drive past the rude attendants at Baja cactus from now on.
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I've said it before. There is no profit in pumping gas off the grid by using generator power, unless Pemex itself would give a break on the wholesale
cost of the gas.
There was long ago an issue about the distance between stations in this region. But we have come to rely on a fill up at the Los Pinos station
allowing us to get all the way to GN with fuel to spare.
And, as has been previously stated, that pump has been there for years. |
Thanks for the hot tip. I'll drive past the rude attendants at Baja cactus from now on. |
DK's post notwithstanding, the simple fact is that Antonio lives in Tijuana. So unless he just happens to be around a few times a month, I really
don't see what he's going to do for anyone.
And YES! I gave up getting gas at his Pemex years ago. The straw that broke the camel's back was a shift change in the middle of the day, where
customers had to stand around with their hand on their culos for what seemed like 20 minutes. Only after they accomplished the shift change, an
employee walked out to me, and didn't start pumping gas, but rather wanted to sell me a bottle of gas additive. That was it!
In either direction, Los Pinos works for me. And they have a well stocked cooler, too.
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David K
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Never had a rude attendant at El Rosario or one that tried to sell me additive. I have been buying gas there since 1974. I know Antonio is a great
human, and maybe there are some people who want to dwell on negatives and not see the huge effort 'BajaCactus' does to help people, all people.
Antonio lives in El Rosario, has for a while now, but does go to Tijuana and San Diego often, as business needs dictate.
I had tomatoes with my dinner tonight, so I support Los Pinos that way!
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