I'm very lucky to be live in Koreatown. The Mobil station closest to me is selling gas at 3.579, 3.679 and 3.779. Which can be 30 cents of more lower than some stations a few miles west in Beverly Hills or Westwood.

That's what I've found about CA. Gas prices depend highly on the station you go to. But the biggest shock was driving on I-10 from AZ into CA. On the AZ side, gas was around $3.5. Cross the Colorado River into Blythe, it was $4.5. Totally ridiculous.

That is very true. Every time we head over to Phoenix to see my fiance's parents, we always stop in Yuma (even when it was 116 degrees) for gas since it is 50 to 80 cents cheaper per gallon than anything on the California side.

When I was in college in LA I always went to the Mobil at Fig and Adams, near your part of town. It was always the cheapest Mobil around. (I only gas up at Exxon and Mobil stations)

And there is that crazy lone gas station over the the border near Beaumont, CA that is a good $1 higher than anywhere.

The Mobil one I use is Western @ Olympic. It's really the cheapest gas station I've seen from downtown L.A. to Santa Monica, including the no-name brands. There's another a little to the west, on Olympic, about 4 cents more, 2nd cheapest.

Because both are Mobil, I just have to get the ExxonMobil mastercard. 30 cents off a gallon for first 60 days, and 15 cents off from then on.

Sounds unbelievable, but now I drive in L.A. to work, while I used to take the bus in Houston. Parking contract at UCLA is much cheaper than Texas Medical Center. Gas cost is lower because the distance is shorter (8 miles each way vs 14). And the bus fare is higher in L.A. than Houston.

And these disparities in fuel prices exist everywhere. It was 20 EuroCents per liter less on the Austrian side of the border than on the Bavarian side. E1.25 translates to about $6.75/gallon near Salzburg and E1.45 is about $7.85 near Munich.

California's prices are due (for the most part) to sheer demand. The need for fuel there is much higher than in the Northeast, so even with refineries close by the prices are still high.

The refining capacity is also lower in California: http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/refineries.htm

But, but...California is the environmentalist state. All the celebrities drive those hybrid thingies. I thought the Prius and the Element were going to save the world. That's what Dustin Hoffman and Leonardo DiCaprio told me. You mean they're wrong? Oh the sadness.

There are indeed lots of Priuses here. But so are AMG M-B with V12 and supercharged V-8s. Not to mention all the Aston Martins, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. :)

What's surprising to me is that there are very few cars like the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris or Nissan Versa. Well, at least in this part of L.A. County. I see a lot more of them in Houston than here.

Well, I feel that at least initially, the hybrids are so popular here mostly because one can get a sticker to use the HOV lanes. But they've capped the number of stickers issued and no new hybrid owners can't automatically get one.

Down here, there is an affliction with raised trucks. These nerds rival the guys in Texas who lift their trucks so high they need a ladder to get into it. Compensating for something? :rolleyes: In any event, they tend to suck down the gas as well as your regular giant SUV. I have seen less Hummers around lately, though.

I had a Z71 in Highschool with a 9" suspension and 3" body lift on 38's. I got 9 mpg in the city and 11 on the highway. I also had a 35th aniversery Mustang Cobra never got better than 19mpg which was the weekend car lets just say I feel sorry for whoever bought that car after I was done with it. After I was on my own ie. supporting myself, I bought a honda accord which I owned for 8 months before I moved to NYC. Now I just have a few nice pairs of shoes.:D:cool:^

Then there is venezuela, where you can fill up your tank for less than $2.

Oh lord, i am working with the boss today 4-12 and tomorrow 4-12 :eek:
I do not like answering 9-1-1 calls with the boss looking over my shoulder.

Here in Atlanta at the moment, you're lucky if you can fill up your tank at any price. Fortunately my Accord has just over half a tank in it at the moment, and my partner filled up his Civic Wednesday night when he happened to pass a station that actually had gas (that station is now out). So neither of us is desperate at the moment, and we're avoiding unnecessary driving as much as possible.

We were just out for a couple of hours running errands and must have passed 20 gas stations. Not a single one had any gasoline, and only a couple had diesel. Fortunately I do have enough gas to get me through a couple of weeks, since my car will go to the airport on Monday, sit there for nearly a week, then make a trip home for one night and back to the airport the next morning to sit again for four days. When I'm traveling for work and not driving much on the weekends, I usually only have to fill up once a month. I'm about halfway through that cycle now. Hopefully by the time I really need gas two or three weeks from now this shortage will be resolved.

I was in ATL mid Sept for a convention at the Cobb Galleria near I-285 & US-41. I think I was in Smyrna, GA. About half way though my trip, Ike came though Houston and the gas prices went from $3.30/gal to over $5.00/gal. The Costco line was out of control. Almost 30 vehicles waiting in line at a time. They eventually ran out of gas, and so did just about every station in that area when I was there. I eventually found a gas station that actually had gas, but it was over $4.00/gal from what I can recall.

I cant believe that the situation is still how it is there in GA.

CO now has 753's and 752's ^ for my trip to LAS in JAN!

I wish that was listed when I made my purchase, I will be gold by then, so I would have taken my chances on the 752 both ways.