How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

Don't confuse Cosco with Costco, they are entirely different. Though Cosco isn't anywhere close to where you live either.

COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) was a state-owned shipping and logistics services supplier. It has since merged with China Shipping Company, another Chinese state-owned multinational transportation company, to form COSCO Shipping. Though those of us living near major ports still regularly see the COSCO name bare, especially on shipping containers.

 

There is at least two other such national chains. Walmart owns one. They can have member only gas stations. They are priced at least $0.20 less a gallon than neighboring stations here.

Costco pays and treats their employees well compared to most other retail jobs. Think they have a lower CEO pay gap too.

Cosco is also a brand that may be of no relation. Stools and small step ladders are what I see regularly.

 

Sam's Club! There's one that's only a 250-mile round trip from here.

As far as gasoline prices go here, most of the time all the gas stations have the exact same price. I can get a discount with my Sinclair app at Sinclair. City Market (Kroger) has a 10 cent discount for every $100 you spend, but I don't get fuel there anymore because there have been a few times that all the cars that fueled up there wouldn't start or even ended up with engine damage. Kroger paid for the damages, but I'm not risking it. The local Safeway has the same discount but there are no Safeway gas stations nearby. But those 3 and 10 cent discounts don't seem to help as much with gasoline being nearly $5 a gallon as it did back when it was less than half that.

 

Costco has 4% rewards for using the Costco linked credit card from Citi, so my price yesterday was $5.08. A whopping amount of about $7 saved over the $6 stations. Means nothing really for the amount I buy. Need to have the higher membership which I have. This costs $120/year compared to the standard membership of $60.

 

Surprised it isn't even cheaper. A gallon of gas in California has around 90 cents of state and federal taxes plus assorted fees. And Mexico pumps a lot of oil. Maybe the gas prices are high in that corner of Mexico because it is the farthest away from the wells and refineries, which are around the gulf?

 

Sam's Club gasoline isn't top tier gas. Or at least it wasn't a couple of years ago. Costco sells top tier.

 

Mmm, I get 5% with the Citi card on Costco gas and am at the basic member level; 4% at non-Costco stations. The higher membership only changes the in store reward.

Part of California's prices is in the formulation set by CARB that differ from what the rest of the country uses.

 

That and the oil companies frequently take refineries off line "for unscheduled repairs" (several of them, at the same time), which artificially restricts supply and drives the price up.

 

Shutting 2 refineries down in California (pull out due to high fines & not meeting onerous regulations thereon) certainly didn't help their Supply /demand issues. Calif has the highest % of renewable diesel too, & thus the highest in the nation prices on that.

 

You’re right, they also charge $130 for the exec membership. Since I have a 2% other credit card it may not make sense anymore to have the exec membership. I think you could only use the Costco linked credit card when I signed uop for the exec. It used to double the appliance warranty plus get an extra 2% off. I think it still does the extra 2% off. Maybe I need to go back to the lower card.

gas prices from a link I never heard of. Don’t see 90 cents more as someone said.

Gas Tax by State 2026 | All 50 States Ranked

 

Despite the 2026 claim, that is outdated (at least for CA and WA). And it doesn't include the indirect 'carbon tax' in some states.

 

As if that's possible It's not like I was drawing cartoon images so he could follow along ...... But for the thinking people, it might be more than just a nut case conspiracy theory thing ...... there are some things he is good at after all ...... I wonder if he has an impersonator ready on speed dial to front up at a rally in another state, the basic script is easy enough to follow, an image of a pool that's taller than a building, do the YMCA dance and complain about being blocked in his attempts to name every building after himself ..... and have a few naps while sitting there waiting for the warm up to finish

T1 Terry

 

He'd need to be able to admit letting the impersonator take the stage is a good idea for that one.

 

The perfect distraction to make that quick getaway when needed, and who knows more about distractions than DJT?

T1 Terry

 

Prices near me were down about $0.40. Perhaps related to the recent "peace deal" (AKA "peace memorandum" AKA "peace memo" with Iran which does, well, nobody really knows yet because it is apparently so odious they dare not release it. Formalizes a cease fire probably, and welcome to frozen conflict "It's not Korea 2, it's Persian boogaloo".

 

$3.22/gallon here

 

The latest reported level is 340,400 thousand bbl as of June 12, the lowest since July 1983.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve Inventory 2005


Back then, it was still effectively in its multi-year process of being filled for the first time, a process the went from 1977 to 1990, with a year-long pause during the Iran-linked 1979 Energy Crisis.

If that happens, it would be the lowest since February 1982.

 

$3.93 yesterday, the real tax is being deferred

 

The peace deal is just more market manipulation in an attempt to gain more money by insider trading .... seems anything to do with questionable actions regarding the stock market are now invisible to the authorities that are meant to police it.

Be prepared for a sudden price at the pump climb .......

T1 Terry

 

Considering I still remember 0.249 a gallon...