Ages ago, I worked for a grocery store in New Orleans called Schwegmann’s. At some point they opened a store in Slidell, a suburb northeast of the city, right next to the Mississippi border. And soon the parking lot was filled with vehicles with Mississippi license plates. Wonder why? Well it has nothing to do with fruits, veggies, or meat, but with distilled alcohol.
Mississippi has fairly strict alcohol sales laws, where liquor can only be sold in “package stores,” and they can’t be open on Sunday. Louisiana, on the other hand, is rather open about alcohol sales. Anywhere in the New Orleans area (Some parishes are different), you can pick up a bottle of Jack Daniels at 330am on any given Sunday. So if you were living on the Mississippi gulf coast, a few minutes drive is no problem for people wanting alcoholic beverages after church.
It’s a lesson that some people refuse to learn. You make things more expensive, people, i.e., the consumer, will try to get them cheaper. Well, the People’s Democratic Republic of Kalifornia (PDRK) is showing us, again, why they are rotting from inside.
California residents facing high gas prices drive to Mexico to fill their tanks.
TIJUANA — Claudia Jessica Villarreal used to fill up her gray Nissan Pathfinder near her home in Chula Vista, Calif. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and gasoline prices went bonkers. The 54-year-old psychologist soon discovered a bargain.
A dozen miles south, just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, regular gas sells for an average of $3.96 a gallon — nearly $2 less than in California.
She was in Tijuana on Wednesday to take her children to a doctor’s appointment, so it wasn’t a big deal to swing by the Santa Fe gas station on Salinas Boulevard to fill up. But she’s also been making special trips.
“I swear, I’ve been coming once a week,” she said. “I cross when I can…”
…Now banners at Mexican gas stations in Tijuana flaunt their prices with signs like “Cheaper than in the U.S.A.!”…
I just checked online, the average price of a gallon for regular in the PDRK is $5.81 (Last week, a station in Los Angles broke $7.00 a gallon for premium). For a gallon of gasoline (I remember the shock of it going over a buck a gallon back in the 1970s). Run the numbers. If I fill up every week, I drive a few extra minutes, and I have a twelve gallon tank. If I use the Mexican station, I put ten gallons in, I can save almost $20.00 dollars a week. That’s over $1000.00 a year.
But don’t worry, Governor Gruesome Newsom is riding in to save the day.
…In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday released details of a proposal to pay vehicle owners $400 for each car or truck they have registered in the state. The plan, which would cost $11 billion, also includes grants to offer free or reduced public transit…
Now what would be more effective than giving people $400.00 a year for gas over the year, or giving them a bus pass? How about you increase the supply of gas in your state! Increase drilling off shore and stop requiring gasoline blends for the PDRK only.
…Back in Tijuana, Patricia Saharagui, a spokesperson for the Rendichicas gas station chain, estimated that its locations near the border have seen a 6% increase in sales in the month since the war began. She welcomed Californians.
“It’s an opportunity for them to come and try,” she said. “It also shows them how in Mexico we also have good-quality gasoline.”
The chain has begun a digital campaign to promote its lower prices. “Don’t worry be happy in Tijuana,” one advertisement says in pink block letters.
At one Rendichicas station, about half the cars that pulled in had California license plates. Unlike California stations, where people pump their own gas, Mexican ones are full-service…
…One customer was 48-year-old Mónica López, who drove down from Chula Vista and filled up at pump No. 1.
“I worry a lot” about gas prices, she said. “The drastic rise in the price of gas affects all of us.”
No, it doesn’t affect “all” of us. Ask multi-millionaire Stevie Colbert about being able to pay $15.00 a gallon, “Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4 per gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It’s important. I’m willing to pay $4 a gallon. Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.’ All the pain and suffering for “saving the planet” will be inflicted on you, not them. Remember, Obama and Biden will never drive an electric vehicle (Or drive period) for the rest of their lives.
The station also benefits from sales to locals who used to fill their tanks in the United States, including Doyma Torres, a 61-year-old Uber driver.
“Horrible. It’s very bad, very high…. That’s why we’re filling up here,” she said. “If it stays this way, excellent, it’s convenient for us.”
Now that she fills up on the Mexican side of the border, she does far fewer Uber trips in the United States…
Something else to remember. Gas stations make little, percentage wise, off the sale of fuel. As I recall, they make less than 2% from a gallon of gas. The biggest group is make money is Uncle Sam and the 50 states. And they get their money first, having done nothing to produce it.
Back to station owners, they make a lot more on the food, drinks, etc. There are higher prices there than a grocery store because you are paying for the convenience of getting in and out quickly. Just like when people locked down during Covid, not tanking up was a hit for the gas stations. By not buying your cup of coffee and donut on the way to work was killing them.
Not that Gruesome Newsom, or the other other libtards care. He knows he’s riding in to save the day, and controlling you, because you can’t be trusted to do the right thing. It’s OK, you don’t know what to do, they will control you like the good children you are. You don’t know that you need to be on a bus, or in an over glorified golf cart. And if it means bankrupting you and putting you on welfare, so be it.
Last middle class resident to leave the PDRK, turn out the lights. Oh, they’re already are out. Solar don’t work at night.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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Ask any millionaire elitist comedian, who doesn’t own a car, and they will all tell you they don’t mind $15/gallon gas. The parking space for his imaginary car would cost ten to one hundred times the price of any car he might choose to say he might own.
Damien Newsome hasn’t found a reason to not spend money no Californian wouldn’t beg to pay the taxes to fund.
A few months back I found an article (May have been a column. Six of one, half dozen of another) from the LA Times. The premise was Joe Biden had brought the economy back by active government measures, government spending, etc. But for some reason they didn’t mention the inflation or the deficit, hell, the fact we don’t have a budget. I wonder how much insightful “journalism” we’ll get from the NYT, WP, etc, on the disaster of the PDRK, hell, the US.
God help up all.
Those insightful journalists are all mum on everything that matters. They know we know they are part of the problem. I think those insightful journalists are all going to be taking sedatives, once they realize they picked the wrong side, if that ever happens.