Come and get it: $4.69 gas still available in Calabasas

I posted earlier today that the average price of a gallon of regular gas has dropped almost 75 cents since its high of $4.61 on June 19.

So take a guess when this photo of the Exxon station at the corner of Calabasas Parkway and Calabasas Road was taken?

A) June 19
B) July 19
C) August 19
D) Friday!

If you guessed 'Friday,' you guessed right. Alert Bottleneck reader Chris Bucka took this photo. "Which is worse," he wrote me in an email. "The fact that gas there is $4.69, or the fact that there are more than a couple of cars actually filling up!?!"

The price remains $4.69 as of this morning, by the way.

Bucka also noted that gas is about 50 cents cheaper a gallon at the 76 station on the other side of the 101 Freeway. I've seen the same phenomenon at the Chevron station I've been tracking in Pasadena. It's more expensive than the 76 right down the street, but the Chevron has a convenient location and plenty of pumps -- and there are always people filling their tanks there.

--Steve Hymon

photo: Chris Bucka

Comments

[M]

How surprising is it really? People are stupid. Those idiots filling up for $4.69 when the one down the street would save them about $5 a tank are the same idiots that have us hostage to big oil.