Cheap price on Mexico Petrol

[Chevy57]

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If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy.

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it's about $2.54 — even less if you pay in pesos.

More and more people appear to be taking advantage of the lower price.

"I used to buy exclusively in the U.S. before gas started really going up," said Patrick Garcia, a drama teacher at an elementary school in San Diego who lives in Tijuana. "Since then, I've been buying all my gas in Tijuana."

The lower prices mean a U.S. motorist could save almost $54 filling up a two-year-old Ford F150 pickup with a 26-gallon fuel tank in Mexico.

The differential in diesel is even greater, selling at $5.04 a gallon in San Diego County and $2.20 in Tijuana.

Paul Covarrubias, 26, who lives in Chula Vista and works in construction in San Diego, crosses the border each week just to refuel his dual-cab Ford F-250 pickup.

"I fill it up with diesel in Tijuana for $60," he said. "It would be almost twice that in San Diego."

Gas is cheaper in Mexico because of a government subsidy intended to keep inflationary forces in check.

Still, international gas-buying trips don't make sense for everyone. The wait getting back into the U.S. at the border in Tijuana frequently takes longer than two hours and cars can burn about a gallon of gas for each hour they idle.

 

[deafaussie]

Yes they sell cheaper gas than here but thats because, the Mexican government put subsidies on gas prices to balance out their economy. I'm not so sure why.
But any CA registered cars, trucks and motorbikes might fail emissions tests due to higher sulfur content in gas and can hurt your wallet and more than what you had bargained for.

Pre 2007 Diesels - no care. 2008 and beyond Diesels, stay away from it as it can destroy emission control system as well.

 

[Chevy57]

Gas under $3 a gallon lures Americans to Mexico to fill up

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Adam B. Ellick
New York Times

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico- When George Terrazas was mugged at gunpoint in this Mexican border city several months ago, he vowed never to return.

That, however, was before gasoline hit $4 a gallon in his hometown, El Paso, Texas, just across the border.

Last Saturday, Terrazas was back in Ciudad Juarez, wooed by its irresistibly low-priced gasoline - $2.66 a gallon - even if not quite unfazed by the indiscriminate gunfire from dueling drug cartels that has contributed to a 2008 average of three killings a day in the city.

"I don't feel comfortable here," he said, "but I can't even fill the tank on the U.S. side."

Terrazas, a 48-year-old maintenance worker, is among a flow of American "gas tourists" who, according to estimates by Mexican service stations near the border with El Paso, account for a 50 percent surge in gasoline sales here over the last several months. (Similar increases are reported along the border all the way to Tijuana.) Even the Mexico Tourism Board is promoting the journey.

At the Servicio Herrera service station here, the manager, Jorge Salinas, estimated that Americans were now 30 percent of his customers. They arrive at all hours, Salinas said, from 6 a.m. to midnight.

On his visit Saturday, Terrazas saved about $20 filling his 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. He said that when he returned to El Paso, he would monitor the bridge traffic from his house and that once it waned, he would come back to fill his other vehicle, an SUV, for an even bigger saving.

And while here, he would purchase six-packs of Tecate beer and produce like passion fruit and even visit an orthodontist. In all, he expected to save $200.

The low gasoline and diesel prices that draw Americans here are a result of subsidies provided by the Mexican government to curb inflation and make fuel affordable to the poor.

The moment may not last. Severe gasoline and diesel shortages, caused by the increased demand from Americans and delivery problems as well, have been reported from here to Mexico's border with California. (On Friday the government-owned monopoly oil company said that it would provide a one-time allotment of an extra 300,000 barrels of diesel fuel to meet increased demand along the border.)

 

[Foxrac]

I'm really wish USA government will subsidize on gas price like Mexico did.

 

[JClarke]

^^ Hear, hear! I wish it would occur the same to Australians!