Mendocino Coast Gas Station Is the ‘Most Expensive in America’ Charging $8.45 Per Gallon
Gas prices at Schlafer’s Auto Body & Repair in the tiny town of Mendocino in Mendocino County on March 8. [Photo from Galen Bach cropped and contrasted]
Patrick De Haan, the Head of GasBuddy.com‘s Petroleum analysis team, told us that the price per gallon at Schlafer’s has “a very strong likelihood that this is the most expensive station in America.” De Haan reviewed GasBuddy’s records of current gas prices across the United States, and he told us, “I can’t find any more expensive at the present moment.”
Last summer Schlafer’s made national news for officially being considered the most expensive fuel in the country, at that point charging $6.73 for a gallon of gas. Owner Judith Schlafer told SF Gate’s Freda Moon after she learned their station was currently the most expensive in the country, “It has to be that way, or I’d be out of business.”
Galen Bach, according to him the “best chimney sweep ever”, told us he has had to raise his service prices across the board on the coast. He is paying more for parts, gas, and the general cost of living. He remembered buying six bags of groceries recently at Mendocino’s Harvest Market and paying $455.
Currently, the North Coast of California has one of the most expensive gasoline markets, as per AAA’s County Gas Prices map.
The map provides a county-by-county breakdown of the average cost of a gallon of gas. Coming in the first place on the North Coast is Humboldt County at $5.70, second Del Norte at $5.64, third is Sonoma at $5.57, fourth is Trinity at $5.41, the fifth is Lake at $5.43, and coming in sixth for the cheapest gas currently on the North Coast is Mendocino County at $5.35. Worth noting, it looks like Mono County, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains has the state’s highest gas prices at $6.02.
It was just yesterday that California’s average gas price crept above $5 per gallon for the first time in history. De Haan told the SFGATE yesterday that he could see California’s average gallon of gas costing $6 and a growing number of gas stations charging $8 or more.
This dramatic rise in gas prices is the result of a multitude of forces converging including the deliberate dialing back of domestic oil production in 2019, sanctions against Iran and Venezuela decreasing worldwide supply, the pandemic’s heightened demand for petroleum-based products such as medical plastics, the recent sanctions levied against Russia, and finally a number of taxes specific to the state of California.
Bach told us that when he posted the photograph of gas prices in Mendocino, a heated political debate erupted on his Facebook profile with many Trump voters blaming Biden for the gas prices.
Putting aside politics, the dramatic rise in gas prices has got this father of three thinking about money in a completely different light. With these prices, Bach said, “I have three kids I’m raising. It’s not easy at all.”
UPDATE: And today the price went up at Schlafer’s Auto Body & Repair…
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no this is just gouging…..shameful
No, it’s Putin’s fault lol
Well spot prices of oil are taking a hit.
Crude down $16 a barrel
Brent down $18 a barrel
So thank Wall Street speculators for that…
But we can thank Biden administration for this:
From today in California:
“ The Biden administration on Wednesday reinstated the state’s authority to set motor vehicle pollution standards stricter than the federal government’s. That includes tighter restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-09/epa-restores-californias-authority-to-set-its-own-auto-pollution-rules?_amp=true
Poor cows are going to become bloated soon, since they’re not allowed to emit greenhouse gases either. California Democrats ruin things for everyone. Even the cows are going to be unhappy and uncomfortable.
Ur talking about something from Sonoma right have beer on me and zip it next time I think your home might be on fire redwood valley vampire bitch.
That is a lie.
No, that’s comedy. The delivery just isn’t the same when written on a blog…
No you can thank gouging by oil companies for this!
WHAT’s ur favorite.
exactly
Good, we need to address this ridiculous problem. People with their obsurdly large 4WD trucks that have never pulled a trailer or seen a speck of dust continually eat massive quantities of fuel while over polluting the environment, just so someone’s ego could get stroked. Greed like this needs to be addressed.
He died that’s what happened to both of his eyes??
Yes, we can, and I will! Climate change doesn’t give a fig how offended we mere humans might be about the results of our pollute-first mindset.
On the surface that should reduce dependence on fossil fuels, right? It would if we did things right. Electric vehicles would do it. Problem is, here in CA for instance, we like to blame commercial trucks which actually are a small percentage of the Cubic-Inch-displacement-per-ton-driven compared to your pitbull trucks, and Mom wagons. we blame leafblowers, because its usually Guatemalans running them as we drive our Land Rover out the gates. California’s rules punish those that bought the trucks, and they are not completely effective. technology chasing particulates in diesels has greatly increased engine displacement, and fuel consumption, increasing greenhouse gas production. CARB issues punitive fines to the end consumer instead of incentives. A true commercial electric truck, not a status SUV like the Tesla, costs $300,000 for a 20,000 GVWR truck. Thats equivalent to the price of a new 80,000 lb truck and transfer trailer. tThere are electric trucks from common brands that have been for sale in Europe, and even the East Coast for four years that are mysteriously absent from the market in the “Global leaders”-in-the -reduction-of-greenhouse gasses-State of California. In the meantime CA has set no restrictions on goofy giant displacement SUVs. If your Suburban has a 350 cubic inch engine, you only need those cubes to get it off the dealers lot and into YOUR driveway! otherwise except for roadraging through the ENF parking lot, you’re only using 35 CI to pull it around on average,
Higher MPG standards actually lower demand which also lowers prices…Biden has ZERO to do with existing oil/gas prices.
I DO thank him. What Trump did was very short-sighted and irresponsible!
Dig deeper.
The number of oil Producer bankruptcies set a record in 2020, during the Trump regime.
Less market competition = higher prices.
And I’m certainly no fan of Biden.
Partisan politics is only a theatrical stage to divert attention & blame away from the neo-feudal Lords whom are truly controlling the economy.
It’s called DIVIDE & RULE.
Thank Larry Ellison for this All of this.
Domestic Crude Oil Peaked at $145 a Barrel in 2008. It Closed Yesterday at $118.50. So Why Is Gas at the Pump at All-Time Highs?
Less market competition = higher prices.
Fewer oil Producers.
Fewer oil Refiners.
The age of Big Everything.
Big Corporate is squeezing out & destroying the little guys.
Read more in my comment above.
The invasion is PUtin’s fault, yes.
No it’s Biden’s fault for reversing all of President Trump’s energy policies. Remember $2/gallon just a year ago.
When the demand was way sown because of a pandemic. Supply and demand rule the day. Prices are high right now because greedy assholes are speculating there will be a shortage in world supply.
Actually it’s Biden’s fault for reversing Trump’s energy policies and that’s why prices are high. We could be energy independent and not begging our enemies Iran and Venezuela to produce more oil but Biden would rather pander to his base.
Thyat is a lie. Name 1 policy that reduced current production.
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If President Joe Biden came out forcefully on the side of increasing US oil production, the price of a barrel could fall quickly, experts told The Post — even if it takes a while to bring that new energy online.
Just look at what happened Wednesday in the wake of the United Arab Emirates and Iraq saying they’d up production by an estimated 800,000 barrels a day: The global price of oil dropped by $22 a barrel within minutes.
If Biden signaled full-throated support for US drillers to get to work — and perhaps allowed the re-starting of the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada — global oil prices could similarly fall sharply, the industry experts told The Post. Biden is facing renewed criticism over his restrictive energy policies – with experts noting the administration’s frosty relationship with US producers has added to the problem.
“There’s an invisible hand in the oil market – If there’s a perception that, ‘Hey, if this guy is going to free up this pipeline, he might start freeing up some leases and stuff,’” then that could help push prices down, said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group.
Republicans and other Biden critics say his actions and proposals since taking office – such as canceling the Keystone pipeline, suspension of new federal oil and gas leases, higher drilling fees on federal land and a Democratic-led push for the Federal Reserve to implement climate change policies – have sent a clear signal to US producers.
The poor people who were delivering your things while you were wfh used lots of gas.
I remember your babushka from last night.
babushka, such a congenial word…
WRONG! WHat policies reduced production currently? NONE! Biden admin actual;ly approved more oil drilling permits in first year than Trump. The oil prices are directly related to the pandemic. Pre-pandemic oil demand was high and as was production. The pandemic hit and demand dramatically decreased as did production. Once GDP growth amped up (6%) demand dramatically increased but production did not follow suit because oil producers are making more money.
Wait… pandemic? What pandemic?
I answered your query with facts above.
It’s probably not gouging. We both don’t get to audit the business’s books, but if you have ever tried to run a small business in rural CA I think you might have a different comment.
Besides it’s a free market. If you think it’s gouging then there’s a opportunity to open another gas station with lower prices and take all the business. Haha although if you ran the numbers I bet again you’d have a different comment.
Actually these station owners don’t make that much of a profit on selling gasoline. it’s pennies at the most.. Don’t know why this is never mentioned…
Yep!
Lmao biggest crook know too mankind
27 percent profit. By a former employee
Unless you are the bookkeeper or CPA I suspect there are expenses missing from the calculation. Is this gross or net? Is it for just gas or all products sold?
Npds from the Bay have a hard time wrapping their head around these it’s at Big Sur that’s the highest in the state always has and always will be.
it’s their and a forgot the blue grammar again from Hopland.
klue
No way , figure in owner over head
“By a former employee”
That should’ve been your first indication that number is bullshit.
That’s ur age huh?
More like hi IBm
Huh? International Business Machines?
It’s your own orb thing
Because the station owners did not pay $6 a gallon for what’s in their storage from last week. Yet they are charging for what they have not even received yet.
Your package intelligence is mindvogglling
Ha! Dobbs’ Law in action.
Pennies at the most? They filled there bulk tanks last week for $5 a gallon, there are selling that same fuel this week for $8 a gallon. Only pennies if you say 300 pennies a gallon.
If the price of fuel goes up so do costs if revenue doesn’t meet expenses then overhead is more then profit you can go their and buy their gas or sell it whatever peace their maybe take it and be one.
I don’t believe that at $9/gallon
Exxon reported an $8.8 BILLION profit in the last quarter. Oil prices are DOWN 5% today. This is absolutely gouging. (Unless of course you own oil company stock)
Was it gouging when growers were charging $1800 a lb?
False equivalency .loads of other choices with flower.
Was not even gouging when mendo prices were over 4000 smackers around the year 2000. It’s called capitalism. Sorry if you are butthurt
Shake is mold they don’t call it a qp For 50.oo $usd for that white looking shit get a clue the indoor somona Adventists couldn’t get help to cure it properly so they gave up on it and let people from the people’s church set up flower discpenciar ies everywhere you sell poison you’re a ghost keep adding to it. Legal pot huh try learning how to do something the right way I’m the first place your a clone from the Bay retarded graton bitch open up your casino btw and om win something at Coyote valley with that smile will you please.
“It’s called capitalism.”
So is $8 gas. Sorry if your mouth is sore.
False equivalence and retail price is still $1800/lb.
Exactly. Oil producers have zero incentive to increase production.
The word gouging is only used if you’r doctor is a ghost if you are also then haha means
Go ahead try that Soylent Green your welcome again is here from the Emerald Triangle
Your text to speech app isn’t working.
Like an arrow through my ?
Can you be my editor please I got to ask all your masked pals for the go ahead first my apologies.
Spot on!
What’s the name of that Netflix cartoon blood of Zeus.
Try opening a business in this economy. Americans born here aren’t handed stores, gas stations, or free money to help operate these businesses.
Hi April but an emu and we thread and please just peace the f out.
Laughing to hard but an emu and some thread
buy
Sort of are actually you pay your taxes
It is considered price gouging. If someone there HAS to have gas to leave, no other gas station, the gas station will set a gouging price because the consumer has to buy it. Growing up, the only store for 20 miles would raise prices on children’s cold medicine during flu season. Parents would pay because their kid is sick and hurting. Again, gouging someone in need.
You are not from Covelo cancer demon go to hell.
If you had a yellow one instead of ah white I’d bet you’d make it.
The free market promotes gouging.
Oh my gosh! RUSSIAN SANCTIONS! This mean that Russia won’t be importing performance enhancing WEED into the United States EITHER. Get ready farmers. You’re gonna have to get used to taking $2,400 a pound again. Sucks huh.
The low price per pound of cannabis being a result of Russia flooding the US market with cheap bud is certainly a take I’ve never heard before.
Simple over production.
Hello Arcata California
It’s kibble
Try drinking bong water you’ve never tried it before I heard you went to Yuba college and couldn’t graduate Pence can’t help you need to get over it and be the next Iron Lady in the Oval Office
When your Infront of the stove I know you look stirring your own ETHER
Rosin is a machine that makes degreaser also called Rosin that is identical to Soylent Green and is in fact the same thing as your Comptche witch mamas weed you bought from.their back in the day last week.
Talk about gouging!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zx5nQyRI4
That’s market capitalism. The owner is proud of her gas and has every right to charge what she wants for it. Her customers (or potential customers) have every right to buy or choose another station. Gouging is when there is a limited supply of a commodity due to an emergency or unusual circumstance. Neither is the case in this instance. Just another indication that a bungling Democrat is in charge somewhere in the USA. Whenever Democrats are in charge our lives become more difficult, and wherever they are in charge that place turns into a third world shithole.
I don’t mind life getting more difficult, I take exception to a mentally sick egomaniac sex deviant causing me to lose sleep and in fear of what my children and grandchildren will be faced with and surviving. And you have to admit there are a number of crazy Republicans in office that spout political feces nearly every day. Too many to list, but McConnell is at the top of my list and the Mexican Cruz is second.
I haven’t heard those two names in so long long live the Jefferson Park State of Mendo and the eternal soul of our lady mother of the lost coast to please please I’m mani padme hum yes and thank you to
But what about Trump?
Republicans seem to live rent free in your head…Remember $2/gallon gasoline just a year ago.
Actually both of your examples fit. It is the only product around as a lone station and it is a very unusual circumstance or emergency as is in part due to a fight with Russia. In addition they paid much less for gasoline since it was delivered last week. Even more of a gouge.
So I’m guessing you are typing for that lady from The other villagestore where they sell the refurbished furniture the bot gardens the deepfried catfish and the wood Burks huh really speaking to my soul right now.
Wrong. The economy always does better under democrats. Capitalism is greed based, pure and simple. She can gouge because supply is limited because she is the only game in town.
Oh good lord… so this last year is an anomaly? What about 2008-2010?
What are the democrats putting in their Kool-Aid?
They’re putting LSD in their Kool Aid now…
That’s what you get for listening tobig band music from the Adventists loser.
In another week or two this article will provide a nostalgic look back at when gas cost less than $10/gal.
For nostalgia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law
Drive 55! Works great to save fuel, and increase safety…
Now the speed limit is 70 on I-5, and everyone goes 80, which wastes about 30% more fuel!
Where the limit is 65, everyone goes 75+…
CHP has already written 50,000 tickets for exceeding 100mph this year!
People waste millions on speeding and traffic fines, and the increased cost of your insurance, traffic school etc…
Then they complain like crazy when gas goes up!
Is this trip really necessary? Do you NEED that gas-sucking pig pickup or SUV?
Slow the heck down, save money and live a little safer:
Drive 55! And buy a Prius now!
I don’t think you know what the word ‘nostalgia’ means.
I got a clock on the wall, only instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc, at each point on the clock, it says NOW…
It doesn’t need a battery.
It’s NOW. Get used to it…
Is this a termaghast here or what?
Erudite…
Extrapolate Heisenberg here I didn’t catch what everybody from the North Bay is thinking here yet.
It means a sentimental aside from your family and others on the beautiful hwy that happens to be my same your not alone
Your not alone others have lost their own fily their also. Say hi to Lilith for me btw.
My thought also. I have been obeying the 50 mph and run 60 mph at the 65 mph. Just stay in the right lane and enjoy the extra time. I have noticed other drivers doing the same thing. And I consolidate trips. Shop once a week. Ride my bike for short errands. And wonder how the young people driving the big tires monster trucks whizzing past me at 75mph can afford a $100+ fill ups. Maybe it’s time we slow down and enjoy another pace of life! And I don’t blame Biden since he had nothing to do with the price of fuel. That is the profiteers and the 99.9% rich corporations. The Koch Brothers being one. On that note have you seen the Defense Contractors stocks. Making money selling weapons to NATO.
The current high price of fuel is all bumbling Biden’s fault. Remember gas was $2/gallon just a year ago under Trump’s effective energy policies.
NO, IT ISN’T. You are lying about it being Biden’s fault and cannot provide a single policy that caused oil prices to increase.
I tell someone they’re incorrect or wrong and it’s usually well received. Calling someone a liar is whole another ballgame. I’ve provided you with several Biden policies that increased the price of oil…
If your from LA and you need a ride it takes two and half hours from anywhere parked till you drive to Sunnyvale and board the BART to the waterfront that’s three hours total from in front of BofA downtown in The City Of Angels all the way to Socrates in North Beach.
What so you’ve never been to the place it’s where people go to get spun out on dust on highway 420
55 was a joke. We need a national speed limit of 35 MPH like during WWII. Congress should pass a Ukraine Solidarity Speed Reduction law. And if you’re not for it you’re a Putin stooge.
You were there also when Hadrian’s wall was built to huh.
I agree. This is a reasonable proposal. If it saves one gallon….
Nope, Prius are the ultimate polluter using rare earth minerals in their manufacture and child labor in Africa. Two strikes,. Plus they are ugly as hell and just look like they are mad if they were a human. Three strikes, Prius out. You keep your Prius and if you drive 55, stay in the slow lane and don’t be one of those crazy fast lane powertrippers who think they will slow everyone down just because they feel like being a putz that day and/or their dog pissed in their soup the night before. When I encounter those jerks I wish I was a chp and would pull their entitled behind over immediately and give them a ticket for impeding the flow of traffic or my ultimate dream of having a bat mobile with missiles which shoot out the front with the push of a button, bye bye fast lane clogger. Man caused global warming is a fraud. Brandon caused gas price increases proven fact with no viable alternative explanations to the contrary. Ukraine war cause gas price increase, yea sure, they have been increasing since January 2020.
I like Ukraine who is Brandon did you mean that home but the Gracia River or something?
SImply not true. Mining lithium doesn’t do anywhere near the damage fossil fuel production does.
Haven’t flown over an open pit mine for awhile, I take it. But the children developing countries use to mine lithium definitely use less resources.
Both bad on different levels…
Nearly all the Prius drivers I see pass me at 15 to 20mph over whatever speed limit is posted
That’s all in Yolo Co that’s also all they have for legal weed here in the good ol’ us of a
Well it’s a very popular tourist place Fort Bragg’s only five miles away to the NORTH blind comments mean you don’t know how to buy a pound at the ghost biker bar one block west to the bluffs where people go hiking loser
Charles don’t stop just keep going.
Another well written, interesting article with a great interview by Matt LaFever. Matt is outstanding at interviewing people.
That’s because he’s not a pariah from The Beacon so fing great.
Another reason why we call that village Spendocino. They have pretty much ceeded it to the wealthy tourists and retirees
Hey- even the locals call it that! About the only thing in town they can afford anymore is a drink at Pattersons…
When did we just go there huh, to eat our own ETHER or just here about your???
Yes that was my favorite episode when the two id demons conspired to murder Sandra Oh boyfriend with a pitchfork that was shocker what is Star Wars about now seriously.
Lol lol Spendocino in Mendoshitshow!! Has a cetain flow to it indeed! ❤
Boycott this gouger
Free market = your right to buy gas elsewhere or open your own station. Or maybe you prefer to just complain?
You should know that when somebody says they are talking out of both sides of their mouths they mean everyone in Fort Bragg sells it at the station across the street from off the hook.
My wife and I drove up the coast from San Fran. I didn’t get gas and said we’d find it up the coast…
We came across this gas station and the price was unbelievable.
The nice lady inside said “ just put in enough to get you to the next town, gas is way cheaper” I put in 20 bucks and headed to the next town up. True story
No it isn’t I aplaud your effort it’s the one in Big Sur they are obviously talking about either that or he’s trying to say it’s less expensive in Comptche a mile away and for some reason kind find words because the largest tree on planet Earth happens to be there.
Get some sleep
I did the secretary from the Congress kept waking you up.
They should be thrown in jail.
Ok, now you sound completely unreasonable. Are you being forced by threat of incarceration or physical harm to buy gas from this station?
No you are if you you are one though…
One way they fuel processors could help out Americans would be to temporarily level profits. Keep making money, keep paying everybody who DOES something at the company, and temporarily halt CEO pay, and stock dividends. Remember the fire at the diesel refinery at El Segundo? It was blamed for high fuel prices…shucks diesel never did go down again. That was when it became permanently pricier than gas. Now, less than two weeks of sanctions, and wow! Ya never knew you were so close to Russia up here! Now it’s “switching to summer formulations”! Sure.
Great idea. Then everyone who owns stock in said company would sell, the ceos would quit (would you keep working for your employer if they said “sorry but we have to suspend your pay so we can keep prices down”?) And then once this brilliant buiseness strategy was fully implemented the company would fail.
Your trying to say harvest market sells food there for a lot less if you are an employee your already good with your Bogg for the next election and it’s for the campers at Mackerikker in the first place so whatever it’s Bay Area prices go back to the Haight and do your underwear shopping again before it’s to late.
Let me guess, you’ve never run a business.
All in fun! But yeah I’ve already been running businesses into the ground longer than anyone on this spot since the Indians. I still don’t have much sympathy for stock holders, hyper paid CEOs, and oil speculators.
I’m a hundred percent sure that the Fifty billion for high speed rail from lancastr to kings county didn’t pay for what’s in Lakeport or up in Willits.
The tricky thing is the CA taxes are probably what pay for all the foreign relief expenditures from the US and maybe almost half of the United Nations I mean do we still really want the league of nations here.
Notice that they have arranged the gas buttons ‘backwards’ too.
At a normal gas station. Most people will push the left button… for a cheaper grade. If it’s arranged backwards… lots of people will select the most expensive gas. I know… I did that once.
You do know thats just a stock photo of a gas pump and not the actual pump in Mendocino right? Lol
Well, seeing as the prices are on that pump and the story says the photo was sent in by an observer at the Mendocino gas station, no I don’t know that it is a stock photo. Quite the opposite in fact.
Yes. That was a pump with ‘conventional’ handle placement.
Lower $ to higher $… left to right.
Pump at the top (Mendocino) shows reverse placement.
Higher $ to Lower $… left to right.
Look at the update. Bozo is correct. These people are scamers. Jailtime
No I don’t notice not really is this alotus seed joke about me or you because I think we both got lost here
Yes, this is the truth. Even if they make 50 cents per gallon that’s a small profit margin for a service that can cost everything is there is an environmental problem (leaking tanks and spills will destroy a business).
Is hayforker Scott? Lol owns everything.
Haha no Scott is way too old and hard working to be on here. That guy is constantly out in the field fixing fences, tending cattle etc. I bet he could still out work me and I’m no slouch.
Biggest crook in the county from pot licenses to gas and food. Freaking joke
Not a huge fan myself, but hating isn’t gonna fix anything.
That’s your past time watching Curling !!!
Your mom must kiss you a lot sucker
Haha ya you’re winning!
W Hatyt. ?!!my grin is cracked
I was in the first Matrix Trilogy movie too also we just went watching it both together at the same time in the cinema theatre.
The more progressive the community, the more everything costs.
The product may be the same, but do-gooder types he ave long believed in paying more for less as a form of social activism.
In fact, progressives have been calling for raising gas proves to European levels for years!
Once again the working class primarily suffers in a situation like this, and we are expected to bear the burden of the games they play up top.
I ate at the black bear diner once too that’s so messed UP.
10:39 AM EST 3/09/22
Crude oil $117.65 a barrel -$6.05
Brent crude $121.56 a barrel -$6.42
WSJ
Last Summer they had to truck in WATER…
How much did WATER cost?
They say that in the future wars will be fought over water…
Like from the beach I’ve heard that before you mean not everyone is a clone from the Bay and some people just happen to be at the snow line ten minutes from Hwy 49 that’s the most mechoopada thing aver then
It will be a cold day in hell before I would by gas from that rip off station. I hope that the people that can, will not buy gas from him. Sounds like the local grocery store is following in his footsteps with their out of sight prices.
You know this is totally fake and is only about all business owners there on the coast who are Ghosts. There are no corporate monopolies on the coast what the heck do you call your OCR bs anyway.
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also
Brilliant.
Hi GAB:;;**,”
Yup
For the rest of Biden’s term* and another 4 years when he’s re-elected. DJT 2022-2028.
2024 here we come…
If gas prices were not enough look what Republican Senator Rick Scott wants to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zx5nQyRI4
Thankfully Rick Scott doesn’t represent the republican party of low taxes for American families…Think about this. If the poorest 47% of people in America were each forced to file and pay $10.00 in Federal taxes, how much would it cost taxpayers to process those returns? I’ll bet it would cost at least $20.00 each, cause that’s how government rolls. Back to the drawing board on this idea Scott.
That station needs to be fined and shut down!
Fined for what? Offering a service? There’s is no mandate you buy there. If there’s an environmental contamination issues (which might justify your comment) then contact CalEPA or Mendo environmental health dept. Haha doubt you will because your just whining.
Do not robot copy repeat from Ralph Nader again please.
interesting, you want the government to put a cap on the prices private businesses can charge?
I’m from the coast too also we all know you and what you mean to also… All way from Lake Almamor Pollock Pines whatever
Fined for what exactly?
Even Guy Fieri packed up and moved to red state Florida, and he said he’s lovin’ it!
It is nice, but a month ago fuel was still over $4, and people were wearing masks. Base all actions on current conditions ( not fantasies). Also alot of olds in spandex…
I see that a lot in Palm Springs and San Francisco as well. Glad to see that Florida passed a bill which prohibits a teacher from discussing gender identity with kids aged 0-3.
How about Texas?
Long overdue…
Do you first past post is in fact the only thing for democracy in the entire UK since Walpole invented it in 1600? That’s like half a thousand years
Gender identity you got that from Leary and Manson with your bon SSU paper certificate didn’t you?
A month later and fuel is still over $4, and people are still wearing masks…. In California… seems current to me lol
Like in the South of France gotcha
” and people were wearing masks.”
Evidently you haven’t been there. No they weren’t.
You’ve never been to the Salvation Army thrift store in Oroville.
He isn’t gay
I don’t know for sure, but it looks like he’s a member of the LGBFJB community
The best people do not sell meth there
nobody is stopping you from following him
Your trying to say they don’t have good food in FB you’ve never tried ether from The Bay Melbourne before then you are missing out in so much of life please go down to Patronas and I’ll buy your next meal whenever
The “ deliberate dialing back of domestic oil production in 2019″…
Wait, I keep seeing that it’s Biden fault.
That’s because US crude oil production did not drop in 2019. It fell off a cliff in 2020. The writer needs to explain what he meant. Maybe he meant the fact that gas was getting too cheap so companies dialed back the supply to raise the price? Possibly because we consumed less but that had been going on for a few years?
https://www.macrotrends.net/2562/us-crude-oil-production-historical-chart
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/trump-and-boeberts-oil-spin/
So there’s this place it’s call Southern California They Have an Ocean There
It dropped because demand dropped with the pandemic. It isn’t rocket science. Biden has no control over production in the short-term and very little over the long term. GDP grew by 6% in 2021 after a negative in 2020 because of the pandemic. Supply and demand…
There is no real market it is completely manipulated by a few key players. They always raise the prices for a democratic administration to help prevent them taking over and actually doing something about global warming.
I live here. This gas station has for decades had prices like this. They do not post prices and is the only gas station in the town of Mendocino. People get their gas in Fort Bragg where prices range $4.89 – 5.55 for reg. Keep in mind this includes California gas taxes.
THIS IS THE TRUTH!!!
Let’s just keep in mind here an oil derrick by there really would not look at that bad at all for few days at least or more.
Hayfork like 6.50 dude owns everything. Even the burgers he serves his own cows. Like 12 for a burger. Small Town America. Criminal
Where do you go to buy something that doesn’t cost that much do you just look away when you see an Arrowhead like you pretend to not know what it is even at all.
Go to Riely’s and eat if you don’t like the gas station food. Or better let, make your own. I get the general hate, but what’s the point? Go make your own money, start a business, sell what you want, and focus on your own problems. Way way way too many complaining in HF. I swear the town is full of lazy haters. Move to big town America and learn about real criminals.
You just reminded me the name of the place in Chico I think you meant Raley’s supermarket where is that at. Hf? Did I meet you once there. Do you orb voice talk or just breathe right now.
“Small Town America. Criminal”
Move elsewhere, start a hamburger stand. Or, just cry about it and vote for Bernie. Surely a slobbering communist who never held a job will fix things.
I think you mean we don’t need to cry over peace any more I watched you in that YouTube pushup video everybody knows you at jack-in-the-box get over yourself your just not that good.
[edit] Trump is more of a communist/fascist than Bernie.
Too sustainable?
“This dramatic rise in gas prices is the result of a multitude of forces”
Notice Brandon’s policies stifling oil transportation and production along with crippling regulations and taxes are not mentioned. The usual left wing drivel, propaganda. Just ignore the prices that began rising immediately when the senile guy, about to get us all killed, took office.
Now it makes sense why Brandon didn’t mention the Build Back Better bill in his SOTU address. It has now become the Beg Back Better bill. Cause now he’s begging for OPEC, Iran and Venezuela to provide us oil.
Is this something about his neices stripper name or what!;
That is simply a lie. Name one policy Biden put in place that affected current oil production. US producers have refused to increase production to pre-pandemic levels as has OPEC.
A further demonstration that the quaint hamlet is not much more than a Disney annex without the gate.
Don’t use your name in vain say it’s six flags at least next time were you even born here or just cloned some how that way…
Most stations don’t make much on gas. That’s why they all have convenience stores. I think this station doesn’t (?).
If you don’t want to pay these gas prices buy more fuel efficient vehicles, or electric. Not taking energy independence seriously has lead to these problems.
Believe or not, the US oil companies don’t set the price of oil, the market (in this case Wall Street) does. In the US we love free markets until they bite us.
I don’t work for the oil industry but I follow it closely for investment purposes.
You can’t tell the difference between guess jeans and the ones they make from hemp it’s the same all the way around the options trade in the markets don’t it’s the contracts you need a degree to explain the whole thing complete or someone from the Peninsula with a Robin Hood app can show you it’s a number three digit number and two decimal places it’s college algebra also which I doubt you are any good at since I never saw you there once.
We don’t have to pay these prices! We have enough oil in the United States to support ourselves without EVER having to import it. Have for years!! Not only will this take care of gas prices, it would produce thousands of jobs! You can all thank Biden and his Cronies for destroying our economy. They set out to do this years ago and all you sheeple followed the freebies. What do you think of your freebies now?
April I hate you I like you souch too also
That is simply a lie and shows your ignorance regarding oil production in the US. We export more oil than we use here because it is profitable for the oil companies.
I live here In fort Bragg, Ca. 10 mile north of Mendocino, Ca. and that gas station your talking about has always doubled the price no matter who is POTUS!
What street
Don’t blame Keystone cancellation!
“”I think XL is off the table,” said Wolf. “And let’s recall a few things. One, it’s the worst type of oil you can have, it’s tar sands going from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn’t really going to change anything to do with our oil supply. It was to export from the Gulf of Mexico.”
I fell off a giant slippery tree once while going up that gully to hwy 20 that brings you out to the Mtns part 10 miles and walked back down Redwood to the depot. flat on my back I can’t remember the last time I had to check myself doing that special.
Keystone has ZERO to do with current oil prices or production.
These democrats have got to go! Biden’s energy policies have cratered quality of life since the day he walked backward into office. Gavin Newsome also does not get near enough credit for screwing average Californians over! Newsome today declared no further drilling due to repeating “mistakes of the past”. Gavin is only worried about lithium. Let American oil companies make up for crude shortages. Gavin and Joe love Russian oil. Don’t even wanna mention CALPERS dirty money.
They have never or to be more clear and precise will never let a person do anything in or at or from anything doesn’t matter if they run unapposed… that’s going all the way back to before Jerry Brown’s father was going to be t governor.
US oil companies HAVE REFUSED to increase production to pre-pandemic levels!!!
This story gets “told” EVERY time the price of gas goes up. Schlafer’s ALWAYS has among the highest gas prices in the country, regardless of which party is in charge. This is not news (let alone, journalism). It is clickbait.
I do not think clickbait means what you think it means. “Clickbaiting is the intentional act of over-promising or otherwise misrepresenting — in a headline, on social media, in an image, or some combination — what you’re going to find when you read a story on the web.” https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/25/wtf-is-clickbait/
Providing simple facts that are of interest to readers is not clickbait. Just because readers find it interesting, does not make it inherently bad.
Kind of harsh. It was news to me, it was interesting, and it is local (yay).
Each and every person that voted for bumbling Biden is directly responsible for our inflated gas prices. Remember gas was $2/gallon under Trump and America was completely energy independent.
Dream on. Gas hasn’t been 2 bucks a gallon in California since 2009.
I bet Country Joe was talking about the avg USA price in Nov, 2020. Since California has the highest gas prices in the nation, no doubt California gas price was > $2/gal back in Nov, 2020.
Diesel is $6.45/gallon in Gualala
Poorest counties in CA, working class counties have the highest gas prices in the Nation.
Leave early for your destination and drive a little slower…
Don’t think ur getting any social workers with ur mask mandates,ur gas prices, ur homeless issues unless ur paying 90 an hour.
Erm, this is ALWAYS the most expensive station – they have a monopoly in the Village. Most visitors don’t seem to realize they can do much better buying gas in Fort Bragg.
I live on the Mendocino Coast and this is a hoax. Gas prices average five dollars
It isn’t a hoax. We eventually talked to the owner…https://kymkemp.com/2022/03/10/owner-of-the-mendocino-county-gas-station-currently-the-most-expensive-in-the-united-states-speaks-out-it-is-what-it-is/
It is the tax is on a gallon as well. They used to have stickers on the pumps that named what all of the different penny taxes were. I have not seen those in quite a while. Currently in California there is nearly a $2.50 addition onto every gallon of gas from taxes. Those pennies add up!!!
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U.S. Number of Operable Refineries by year (Jan 1):
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
1980’s:
x x 301 258 247 223 216 219 213 204
1990’s:
205 202 199 187 179 175 NA 164 NA 159
2000’s:
158 155 153 149 149 148 149 149 150 150
2010’s:
148 148 144 143 142 140 141 141 135 135
2020’s:
135 129
So, today, today there are only about 129 Refineries in operation in the U.S.
Compared to 301 in 1982.
A reduction of about 57 percent.
Supply & Demand – Reducing supply with steady demand equals higher prices.
Less market competition often results in higher prices.
Now let’s look at North Dakota for another example of that Supply & Demand factor.
In North Dakota, which is one of the largest oil & gas producing states in the U.S., had 64 active drilling rigs in 6/2019.
As of 6/2022, it only has 23 active rigs.
A reduction of about 63 percent.
In April 2020 gas prices went negative.
Those negative gas prices resulted in a record number of small oil & gas producers filing bankruptcy & shutting down.
Resulting in less competition.
Resulting in higher prices.
Supply & Demand.
Prior to that Big Oil and their shareholding Cartel of largest Big Asset Management firms & Big Banks had been griping of lowered profits resulting from those smaller independent producers.
More competition in the industry was reducing the potential profits of Big Oil.
As per the Federal Reserve, the number of publicly listed companies in the U.S. has been drastically reduced from 30 per million people population in 1996 to just 12.9 per million people population in 2019.
Mostly through corporate M&A’s (mergers & acquisitions).
Reduced competition resulting in higher prices (inflation) and greater corporate profits for the fewer but much larger corps.
The Top 10 Big Asset Management firms & Big Banks, which exist as the largest shareholders/owners of the largest “competing” corporations, now hold OVER $40 trillion in assets.
The Top 60 hold over $100 trillion.
The U.S. & globe are currently seeing amongst the greatest concentrations of wealth & assets in modern history.
In both “capitalist” and “socialist” countries.
Much fewer people (the ELITE) holding & controlling much more wealth & power.
This is the reality of the economy is truly controlled.
This is the NEO-FEUDAL era.