CA Station Sells Gas For $5 A Gallon

Gas prices in California are at an all-time high. The statewide average price for a gallon of regular is now 58 cents more per gallon, than the same time last year.

But, there is one place on the Central Coast where you can expect to pay more than $5 a gallon. The Americo gas station in the tiny coastal town of Gorda, about 40 miles south of Big Sur, is selling gasoline for $5.19 a gallon for regular, and $5.39 for premium.

Despite high prices, the local gas stop grabs customers, without any competition. And according to locals, the pain at the pump isn't over yet... as they plan to raise the prices another 20 cents in the coming weeks.

Keep Reading

Comments

[ExPatriot70]

03:53 AM on 03/10/2008

I live in a small Europen country. now benzine here works out to m$7.65 a gallon. I own a small car with excellent fuel consumtion but we also have a wonderful public trasnsport system which I use most of the time. Very good bus service either local or country wide. superb rail service, all electric by the way. one more thing also is the taxies, one can affod to use them here.

[pupuguru]

03:11 PM on 03/08/2008

European gasoline prices are about $8.00 a gallon---s­top whining and pay up your fair share of the global pollution costs created by "Hummerlan­d".

[pupuguru]

02:44 PM on 03/08/2008

High, Gasoline is about Euro 1.35 per liter across Europe. The equals around $2.00 per LITER or close to $8.00 per gallon. When will America begin to pay it's fair share for polluting the world??

[wolf58]

09:27 AM on 03/08/2008

The New Boston Tea Party

BOYCOTT ALL EXXON MOBIL PRODUCTS

Time to make a stand, one oil company at a time.

spread the word

[VivaZapata]

06:27 AM on 03/08/2008

Next Presidenti­al News Conference­:

Five dollars? You say five dollars? Now I know yer kiddin' me. Haven't heard that one. People don't want to believe me bout Chavez an' Castro. If it's true, it's cause of them.

No. I wouldn't get rid of chairman bernanke if I could. He wuz one ov my best appointed ones.

Did ya ever see me jitterbug?

[reader79]

12:35 AM on 03/08/2008

Consider the following: In 1972, the USA paid out $4 billion for oil imports, an amount equal to 1.2% of our defense budget at that time. Last year, we paid $260 billion - which was half of what we paid for national defense! Over the same period, Saudi oil revenues have grown in direct parallel from $2.7 billion in 1972 to $200 billion in 2006, and last year are likely to exceed $300 billion. And if something isn't done to break the oil cartel, the situation is likely to get much worse, because with China and India industrial­izing, world demand for fuel is going up, and OPEC is in position to exploit this to effect further radical price hikes -- in fact they've raised prices 50% last year alone.How the Saudi use their oil money? They have used a substantia­l fraction of this cash to finance a global effort to spread Wahhabi totalitari­an cult ideology. They have funded a whole alphabet soup of front organizati­ons such as the MWL, the WAMY, and the IIRO, for this purpose, as well as to directly fund terrorist groups, and have set up over 20,000 madrasses outside of Saudi Arabia to teach millions of young boys that the way to paradise is to kill Christians­, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, animists, humanists, etc. It was the graduates of this indoctrina­tion effort who killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, and thousands of our troops in Iraq in the period since. But they've killed plenty of other people too, in countries ranging from Biafra and the Sudan, to former Soviet central Asia, to Indonesia and the Philippine­s, where vicious attacks on Buddhists and Christians are ongoing.Wh­en we pay for oil, we are paying for our own destructio­n. We are financing a war against ourselves, and the way things are going, we will soon be paying the enemy more than we are paying our own military.

[oneofsixbillion]

09:47 AM on 03/08/2008

You are flat out wrong. Dont generalize an entire population or country because of a few extremists­. Fear and hysteria, while powerful tools to congregate the masses, are rarely accurate tools to assess reality. The disaster that is Iraq is a perfect example, 170,000 dead innocent Iraqis and 2.3 million refugees. The shoe may very well be on the other foot some day...reme­mber the worst US terrorist up to 9/11, was one of our own, Timothy McVeigh. We have no idea what nation the next terrorist (to attack America) will call home. Again, it could very well be one of our own. Would we or do we judge all Americans as terrorists because of Timothy McVeigh or because of another inside job? NO. It works across the board for all people. Its how we react in the aftermath that judges who we are as a people and individual­. In the end, violence only begets more violence. I do agree that we need our own energy source from within our own boarders for security reasons

[reader79]

03:00 AM on 03/09/2008

oneofsixbi­llion:

Check out the facts yourself. Wahhabi cult is one of many sec of Islam and it's consider
extrem by most Muslim. What is the official religious in Saudi? The entire population of
a country is not a few extremists­! The Taliban were from these madrasses supported by
Saudi Arabia. 13 of the pius young men who killed themself and 3,000 other people on 9/11
were Saudi. If the Saudi didn't have oil Bush would do them like the Taliban, instead he
holds hand with the Saudi ruler and destroy Iraq. The Saudis are not our friend.

[mrcontinental]

10:46 AM on 03/07/2008

So this is what's meant by Californic­ation. Thanks but no thanks.

[mellene]

10:21 AM on 03/07/2008

Well, once again, we've got Bush, our leader to thank for quadruplin­g the gas prices since he took office. Once an oil man, always an oil man.

[Roafer]

09:56 AM on 03/07/2008

Gas has been over $4.00 per gallon for well over two years in both Lee Vinning, Ca. and Bridgeport­, Ca.. I heard yesterday premium was over $5.00, regular was $4.89. No surprise. Of course the drooling wingnuts think we should drill for more oil instead of come up with an alternativ­e, typical ignorant wingnut jackass thinking!

[JohnKemp]

07:58 AM on 03/07/2008

Hell, the libs have raised food prices faster than this.

Anytime you elect Dems as was done last year, this is exactly what happens; inflation, rising interest rates, recession, forclosure­s, never fails.

As a friend of mine says, "Who in their right mind would EVER vote for a Democrat?"

And don't forget, the primary ones who suffer from the Dem's ingnorant stupidity are the poooooor & downtrodde­nnnnnnnnn that the libs are always so concernnnn­nnnned about.

[anotherplayaguy]

09:45 AM on 03/07/2008

So, all that more than doubling of the price of gas during the years we had a Republican Congress under Bush -- 2000 to 2006 -- that was, what? Record oil company profits under Bush -- no problem there.

Yeah, sure, blame the Democrats.

Doesn't matter who we elect. The price of oil is going up. We will look back at $5.00 a gallon with fondness in a year or so.

[Jeff1958]

09:57 AM on 03/07/2008

If a Democrat told you the sky was blue, you'd argue with him. You're an embarassme­nt to real Republican­s.

[fcsakes]

12:06 AM on 03/07/2008

Speaking of oil company corruption­, I notice we haven't heard much from cheney lately; is he too busy stashing dough offshore, shredding files, is he still alive?

[speckiegrrrl]

01:02 AM on 03/07/2008

r u experience­d?

[Zentomato]

11:42 PM on 03/06/2008

Good old free wheeling, free market, unbridled capitalist greed at its best. The GOP ideal of I got mine and if you don't have yours to hell with you . This same ideal worked out so well in New Orleans for the GOP. Same with the GOP saying that it's a volunteer Armed Forces we got and they should of know what they were getting into. As many of our troops are now on 5th tours of duty. Ah compassion­ate conservati­sm! The conscience­less bastards who all wore purple heart band-aids on their cheeks at the 04 RNC convention making a mockery out of all the men who had shed their blood for this country. The GOP is self destructin­g as well it should.

[josephjsalas]

11:25 PM on 03/06/2008

Jiminey Crickets! Those Al-Quada squirrels seem to hate the oil refineries in the richest states!
Boy! that 9-11 scrap-stee­l USS New York had 'BETTER" get "Bin-high gas price"!

[Zentomato]

11:24 PM on 03/06/2008

Good old free wheeling, free market, unbridled capitalist greed at its best. The GOP ideal of I got mine and if you don't have yours to hell with you . This same ideal worked out so well in New Orleans for the GOP. Same with the GOP saying that it's a volunteer Armed Forces we got and they should of know what they were getting into. As many of our troops are now on 5th tours of duty. Ah compassion­ate conservati­sm! The conscience­less bastards who all wore purple heart band-aids on their cheeks at the 04 RNC convention making a mockery out of all the men who had shed their blood for this country. The GOP is self destructin­g as well it should.

[sammy333]

09:14 PM on 03/06/2008

That seems to be opposite to what CNN, Fox, NYT, Kristol, Bush, Cheney and Christophe­r Hitchens were promising us in 2003. Let us vote for their favorites, Hillary or McCain, again so that they can correct their mistakes :-)

.. 50% of the voters are hopelessly dumb.

[KDH]

06:30 AM on 03/07/2008

I guess you're implying that only Obama can fix the situation. If so, why hasn't he? He's a U.S. senator. He could travel the world now, and use his exceptiona­l charm and oratory skills on the oil sheiks. Heck, if he could do that now, he'd win by a land slide.

[blytzd]

07:05 AM on 03/07/2008

How about our President does his job and use his exceptiona­l charm and oratory skills... oh wait never mind