Looking for cheap gas? Head to Mexico, amigo!
In San Diego, drivers are paying an average of $4.61 a gallon for the cheap stuff. And like the rest of the country, most of them aren't too happy about it. But a 17-mile drive south will save them more than a $2 per gallon. Gas war? Some radio station's wacky promotional stunt? No, Mexican government subsidies that allow filling stations to sell gas for as little as $2.54 a gallon, even less if you have a pocket full of pesos.
Diesel burners have an even greater incentive to make the drive. Diesel prices in San Diego average $5.04. In Tijuana? Only $2.20.
Downside? Of course! Even if you live near enough to the Mexican border, the wait coming back into the States is supposedly terrible, sometimes as long as a two hours. Leave your HUMMER idling that long, and you'll be filling up in Chula Vista.
[Source: The Associated Press via Placeropolis]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
tankd0g 2:54PM (6/17/2008)
Oh no not nationalization of oil companies, that can't possibility work.
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Jared 2:58PM (6/17/2008)
Are you truly holding up Pemex as an example to follow? Pemex has huge problems. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/2880639.html
tankd0g 3:03PM (6/17/2008)
Oh no they aren't raking in obscene profits. Damn commies.
Jared 3:28PM (6/17/2008)
tankdog, guess you didn't read the article, did you?
Production is falling at the national oil companies of Iran, Venezuela, and Mexico. They are poorly managed. They under-invest in their production facilities. The professional managers are pushed aside and political cronies installed. It is not a sustainable model.
Yar 5:24PM (6/17/2008)
Businesses make profits, which is the reason we don't call them charities.
tankd0g 9:34PM (6/17/2008)
When the government profits off the people, it's called Facisim.
Yar 10:03PM (6/17/2008)
"When the government profits off the people, it's called Facisim."
Ok, so when the government balances the budget and starts to run up a surplus, then it's Fascist, right? What are you trying to say here? Quit making quick one-liners and just come out with it already.
tankd0g 10:08PM (6/17/2008)
Jared, I guess you didn't see the price of gas for the Mexican people did you? Nationalizing an industry is to benefit the people of it's country, nothing more.
Yar 11:05PM (6/17/2008)
So what happens to all of the stock holders for all of the oil companies? They just get boned. Nationalizing corporations destroys economies and ends up making everybody worse off. Government bureaucrats good for nothing except making everything less efficient and more expensive. On top of that, if you think that "Big Oil" will allow themselves to be nationalized, you're crazy.
tankd0g 10:01AM (6/18/2008)
Yar, are you clueless? What stock holders? The whole point of nationalizing a company is that there are no stock holders. It's essentially a charity with the citizens of a country being the benefactors. You'd have to be retarded to buy into one. You better not be one of the people bitching about high gas prices in the USA if you don't support a scheme like this because that's essentially what the tax breaks to oil companies are for, only in a private system they just pocket it and laugh at you instead of reducing prices.
Victor 2:33PM (6/17/2008)
Time for me to get a sentri pass to go to Mexico and back pronto?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENTRI
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Victor 2:34PM (6/17/2008)
BTW, with SENTRI pass, people are averaging about 15-30 minute waits at San Yisidro and Otay border crossings. But the news today said that the demand is straining supplies in TJ.
brock 10:57PM (6/17/2008)
Heckuva job, Dubya!
Mexico is now a better place to live than the US!
Keat 2:34PM (6/17/2008)
If I lived and San Diego, I would get a passport just for that reason.
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Allan 2:36PM (6/17/2008)
Not sure it would be worth the 2696 mile drive from my place to Tijuana. Pretty crazy though.
I wonder about Canada though... only 2.5 hrs from there.
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LeRobert 6:12PM (6/17/2008)
Um... we drive DOWN to the U.S. for cheap gas...
le Chen 4:08PM (6/18/2008)
Canada..don't even think about here..
RxMadness 2:40PM (6/17/2008)
Is saving $30 bucks really worth having your car searched or possibly being turned into a mule.
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rndmnme 2:43PM (6/17/2008)
Hey if the mule gets threw the border you could make a lot more money!
Kidding...
Way of the Future 2:47PM (6/17/2008)
canada's gas is more expensive than here
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