Confusing News About Gasoline Price Increases
A link I followed in the Mexico City news led to an article that claims there will be no pump price increases for the month of September. But the article used terminology that was not Mexican spanish.
You should have seen the number of cars at the USA Costco pumps that had hyphens in their license plates. Gasoline was sixty five cents a gallon less.
Regular gas is now $4.00 gallon down here no matter how your figure the exchange rate. Diesel is around fifteen cents more. My gripe isn't from a tourist perspective, but from a stoking inflation for the locals angle.
AS AN EXAMPLE ABC Autobuses de Baja California
Charges Three Hundred Eighty Pesos each way Tijuana to Ensenada. 760 pesos round trip. About thirty eight dollars US.
Please be generous with tips! Remember a "fat" ten peso tip now buys a whole quart of gasoline for the family car. I pull into Costco down here and the pasa pasas (parking lot and shopping cart attendants) all race to get me an electric disabled cart. A pittance 20 peso note is greeted verbally and with a handshake of appreciation. Then when I exit, they appear and unload the cart into my car then direct traffic to see me on my way with a smile and a wave.
Heavily subsidized urban transit buses are stuffed to the gills in this region. The punitive fuel prices have forced many to leave their cars parked.
Prices are inflating in dollar terms.
You should have seen the number of cars at the USA Costco pumps that had hyphens in their license plates. Gasoline was sixty five cents a gallon less.
Regular gas is now $4.00 gallon down here no matter how your figure the exchange rate. Diesel is around fifteen cents more. My gripe isn't from a tourist perspective, but from a stoking inflation for the locals angle.
AS AN EXAMPLE ABC Autobuses de Baja California
Charges Three Hundred Eighty Pesos each way Tijuana to Ensenada. 760 pesos round trip. About thirty eight dollars US.
Please be generous with tips! Remember a "fat" ten peso tip now buys a whole quart of gasoline for the family car. I pull into Costco down here and the pasa pasas (parking lot and shopping cart attendants) all race to get me an electric disabled cart. A pittance 20 peso note is greeted verbally and with a handshake of appreciation. Then when I exit, they appear and unload the cart into my car then direct traffic to see me on my way with a smile and a wave.
Heavily subsidized urban transit buses are stuffed to the gills in this region. The punitive fuel prices have forced many to leave their cars parked.
Prices are inflating in dollar terms.
