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Preferred gasoline brands (and prices) in Baja?
Sorry to change the topic, but how does one create a new thread?
Specifically, and for future reference to all travelers, with all the oil company's now selling gas/diesel in Baja besides Pemex, are there any of
them that consistently provide better prices?
This inquiring mind wants to know which brand to look for on my next trip south. Quality included, if there is any difference in the quality of the
fuel being sold.
Moderator, please move this query to wherever it should be. I will try to do better in the future.
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Quote: Originally posted by surfhat  | Sorry to change the topic, but how does one create a new thread?
Specifically, and for future reference to all travelers, with all the oil company's now selling gas/diesel in Baja besides Pemex, are there any of
them that consistently provide better prices?
This inquiring mind wants to know which brand to look for on my next trip south. Quality included, if there is any difference in the quality of the
fuel being sold.
Moderator, please move this query to wherever it should be. I will try to do better in the future.
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You back out of the forum you are on to the main page: http://forums.bajanomad.com/
Pick the forum that your post is best suited for, such as Questions and Answers, in your case: http://forums.bajanomad.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=38
Then, click the button at the top of the posts (below the Baja Bound ad) that says: New Topic.
There are so few choices in the central region, just go to one that is open and has gas. Doug can correct me, but I think the gasoline is all the same
just the vendors are different... like here in California. All the various brands of gasoline trucks fill up at the depot from the same tank! Maybe
each truck adds a cup of their proprietary ingredient (like Chevron's Techron), I don't know where that happens? The prices are very close to each
other.
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A non Pemex place in Santa Rosalia was only 1 or 2 pesos less than Pemex a few days ago, but they were out of gas!
Range to somewhere next usually drives our gas buys anyway, especially on bikes.
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I never miss and will always continue to plan to stop at Antonios in El Rosario. That will not be changing. He is deserving of our business.
Filling up there gets me to GN easy, and back to the border heading north.
Thanks 4by4. It appears shopping around does not add up to anything significant. Question asked and answered. Thank you Nomad.
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| Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc | for surfhat
Sorry to change the topic, but how does one create a new thread?
Specifically, and for future reference to all travelers, with all the oil company's now selling gas/diesel in Baja besides Pemex, are there any of
them that consistently provide better prices?
This inquiring mind wants to know which brand to look for on my next trip south. Quality included, if there is any difference in the quality of the
fuel being sold.
Moderator, please move this query to wherever it should be. I will try to do better in the future. |
The prices are not comparable when the vendor is selling short liters. So many vendors (most) claim to sell in liters, but recalibrate the pumps so
their “liters” are actually something like 900 ml. Most gas stations are staffed by crooks!
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If you are wondering if the introduction of foreign gas stations has increased competition, it hasn't. One need only look at how far gas prices fell
around the world during the height of the pandemic. In the US, where much of the foreign gas/diesel was coming from, it was a price reduction of over
50%.
In Mexico, at least where I live, the reduction was 1-2 pesos per liter, at most.
Gas in our area is no3 23-24 pesos per liter, so well over 4.00/gallon.
Pemex and the new outlets that sell their product over here (Windstar, BestGas, Flecha) undercut Arco and Chevron by only around 0.05 pesos per liter,
at most.
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Pemex in La Paz from 20.20 to 22.80
Chevron 22.80
Repsol 20.80
Harald Pietschmann
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The best thing you can spend money on. When you don`t, you aren't moving much.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Here in San Felipe we have found that ARCO is honest about the liters the sell also the PEMEX at the Gloretta is accurate. All others cheat and sell
you less that what teh pump reads.
Price wise all advertise nearly the same price per liter.
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Baja CA has gas prices that run from 18+-19+ Per Liter in Mexicali to 22+ Per Liter in Loreto yesterday and 20+ Pesos in Cabo. Costco Cabo has the
best price and usually is less than 20 Pesos. That’s around $3.75/Gal. The US Costco’s are selling gas for $4.29/Gal near the border in CA.
Contrary to other opinions I don’t think Costco Cabo is cheating on the Liters! What “enquiring minds” should want to know is why Costco Cabo
can sell gas for over 50 cents/Gal less than can Costco San Diego! (Rhetorical Question!)
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Costco in San Marcos, CA on Saturday was $4.359/ gallon for 87 octane.
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Thanks to all for their perspectives. This is Nomad at its finest and why I come here.
Peace and love and can never get enough fish tacos.
Speaking of which, decades ago I recall stopping at the pier/wharf fish market in Ensenada and buying 7 fish tacos for a dollar. From the boat to the
grill to consummation, couldn't be any fresher.
Those were the days my friends. We all have and cherish them.
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| Quote: Originally posted by RFClark |
Contrary to other opinions I don’t think Costco Cabo is cheating on the Liters! What “enquiring minds” should want to know is why Costco Cabo
can sell gas for over 50 cents/Gal less than can Costco San Diego! (Rhetorical Question!)
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Maybe it's because CA has a $0.533 tax per gallon. About twice over all other states except Pennsylvania $0.586 and Washington $0.519952.
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| Quote: Originally posted by surfhat | Thanks to all for their perspectives. This is Nomad at its finest and why I come here.
Peace and love and can never get enough fish tacos.
Speaking of which, decades ago I recall stopping at the pier/wharf fish market in Ensenada and buying 7 fish tacos for a dollar. From the boat to the
grill to consummation, couldn't be any fresher.
Those were the days my friends. We all have and cherish them. |
I remember my first fish tacos in San Felipe, in 1977. They were 20 cents each and the next trip they were a quarter. Man, so good... from a stand
along the main N/S street, just north of the end of Hwy. 5... before there was a malecon street one block east.
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| Quote: Originally posted by TMW | | Quote: Originally posted by RFClark |
Contrary to other opinions I don’t think Costco Cabo is cheating on the Liters! What “enquiring minds” should want to know is why Costco Cabo
can sell gas for over 50 cents/Gal less than can Costco San Diego! (Rhetorical Question!)
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Maybe it's because CA has a $0.533 tax per gallon. About twice over all other states except Pennsylvania $0.586 and Washington $0.519952.
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E vehicles are using roads w/o paying taxes like ice vehicles. Time to create a mileage tax for e vehicles 
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| Quote: Originally posted by surfhat |
Peace and love and can never get enough fish tacos.
Speaking of which, decades ago I recall stopping at the pier/wharf fish market in Ensenada and buying 7 fish tacos for a dollar. From the boat to the
grill to consummation, couldn't be any fresher.
Those were the days my friends. We all have and cherish them. |
Thanks for the laugh. Not sure what you are putting on your fish tacos. 
con·sum·ma·tion
/ˌkänsəˈmāSH(ə)n/
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1.
the action of making a marriage or relationship complete by having sexual intercourse:
"the eager consummation that follows a long and passionate seduction"
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Perhaps the word you are looking for is "consumption" 
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Costo in san lucas
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by surfhat | Thanks to all for their perspectives. This is Nomad at its finest and why I come here.
Peace and love and can never get enough fish tacos.
Speaking of which, decades ago I recall stopping at the pier/wharf fish market in Ensenada and buying 7 fish tacos for a dollar. From the boat to the
grill to consummation, couldn't be any fresher.
Those were the days my friends. We all have and cherish them. |
I remember my first fish tacos in San Felipe, in 1977. They were 20 cents each and the next trip they were a quarter. Man, so good... from a stand
along the main N/S street, just north of the end of Hwy. 5... before there was a malecon street one block east. |
Pretty sure you are referring to the stand right next to Club Bar Miramar. It was my first introduction to a fish taco in 1976.
Love at first bite!
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There was more than one, I recall. Mine was not all the way down by Bar Miramar but closer to the 5, by Curios Irene, I think?
Yes, they were great.
It was fun to take my friends there and convince them to try it. Initially, they were grossed out by the idea of a fish taco .. lol. They couldn't
stop eating them once they had one!
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Lately Irene has been absent and our fall back is the Taco Factory
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