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Pescador
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Registered: 10-17-2002
Location: Baja California Sur
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Santa Rosalia has three stations now with a fourth being opened in the real near future. If you are coming into town from the North the first station
is owned by the nefarious person who owns the old station across from the malecon. We only see unknowing tourists in those two stations. Makes you
want to go up and tell them to read Bajanomads. The station on the right hand side just before the marina is the one all of us locals use and it is
fantastic. In fact, they do not allow the CREAD guys to solicit donations there which is fine. I think they do good work but I got a little tired of
always being solicited when Istopped for gas.
So Santa Rosalia is a great place for gas but you need to stop at the right station.
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Pappy Jon
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Registered: 8-27-2003
Location: Wrong side of the Continental divide.
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Wow. I hadn't heard of any issues lately and thought this was behind us. I had no issues on my last trip, but then I only bought fuel in LA Bay,
Gonzaga, and San Felipe. If I pull into a new town I check to see if the locals are getting fuel. If no, me neither. I got ripped off once, and that
was one of the two stations on the circle in San Felipe.
"The association of flowers and warm-blooded love is more than a romantic convention; it is based upon one of the great advances in the evolution
of life." Ed Abbey
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losfrailes
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Registered: 11-16-2004
Location: Ejido San Lucas near Santa Rosalia
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You know, I have lived here for over 10 years now. And to my knowledge I have never been ripped off at a PEMEX, including the one at Santa Rosalia.
In the past, it was the only station, so what you gonna do, drive 150 miles to keep from getting shorted on the gallon.
If you go into a station and ask for gas, you simply need to watch what you are getting. If you get overcharged, the reason can usually be found
right in your own passenger compartment. Watch what the attendant is doing!
The older station in Santa Rosalia has a well defined reputation with outsiders and WITH THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT of underdelivering, still people use
that station. The station north of Santa Rosalia about 1.5 miles is owned by the same RECOGNIZED owner. The station in San Ignacio is owned by the
same RECOGNIZED owner aare two or three of the stations in Guerrero Negro.
Now the problem is managing your tank so you do not have to participatein this RECOGNIZED owners routine. Gas up at Villa Maria prior to Guerrero
Negro, gas at the new station opposite the old foundry in Santa Rosalia is trustworthy, then the station south of Mulege on Mex 1 can be trusted.
Be careful of the stations in the center of Constitution, however, there is a new modern station just south of Insurgentes that is trustworthy.
None of this is to exduse or justify the cheating SOB at the Santa Rosalia-San Ignacio-Guerrero Negro stations. Simply to let you know that is has
been going on for a long time and the only way to stop it is to stop patronizing those offensive stations.
Whew!
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BCSTech
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Registered: 4-16-2006
Location: Todos Santos, BCS / Placerville, CA.
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For newer readers, there is another version of gas scams where the attendant takes your money, then returns waving another smaller bill saying you
underpaid.
This has become the method favored at a couple of stations in the Los Cabos area recently. In one incident, a 50 peso note was substituted for a 500.
Make sure you know what you're paying. Smile and tell the attendant the amount you are handing over - "quinientos"
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