To the editor: Your article on the “thriller” of fuel value variations inside California and all through the nation compares the price of filling a tank in Los Angeles to filling a tank in Yuba County.
I'm no fan of value fixing, however a few of the causes for value differentials appear all too apparent. Yuba County’s gross sales tax charge is at the very least 1.25 share factors decrease than the overall charge in Los Angeles, and the price of doing enterprise in Yuba County is considerably decrease, whether or not within the type of rents, companies or labor.
Yuba County might not have six oil refineries like L.A. County, however it's not that removed from the refineries close to San Francisco.
As for branded versus unbranded fuel stations, I pay considerably extra for brand-name groceries than for the shop label merchandise. Drivers can avail themselves of non-branded fuel however apparently have little want to take action.
Drivers delicate to the worth of fuel can buy extra fuel-efficient vehicles, forgoing the grossly outsized vans and SUVs that appear to make up increasingly more of the automobiles on the street right now.
George Jacobson, South Pasadena
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To the editor: There’s no thriller behind fuel pricing. All one has to do is examine the costs of fuel stations positioned at freeway offramps to these of stations of the identical model a number of blocks away.
It’s simply greed and taking each alternative to soak the shopper who wants fuel extra urgently than the following driver.
Invoice Waxman, Simi Valley
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To the editor: When the oil provide was threatened a number of weeks in the past, the worth of fuel instantly soared. Logic would then comply with that now, with the worth of oil plunging, fuel costs ought to now fall quickly over the following week.
Let’s watch.
Steven R. Odell, Huntington Seashore
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