Price of gas update...
#2386
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https://www.google.com/search?q=la+s...ml%3B290%3B192
I lived in the L A basin in the 70's...horrible.
I lived in the L A basin in the 70's...horrible.
Even in San Jose there was a yellow haze over the city during most of the summer. However about 5 years ago, the bay area air was so clean for three years in a row that if it made it through the 4th year, it would have been the first major metropolitan area in the US to have federal smog restrictions lifted. Well into the 4th year, everything was fine and then a stagnant air layer hung over the bay area in September and the Livermore sensors went of three times in a week.
#2387
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I lived there in the 1960s driving Interstate 10 daily not realizing that there was a snow capped mountain (My. Baldy) behind Arcadia. Finally 6 months later it appeared.
Even in San Jose there was a yellow haze over the city during most of the summer. However about 5 years ago, the bay area air was so clean for three years in a row that if it made it through the 4th year, it would have been the first major metropolitan area in the US to have federal smog restrictions lifted. Well into the 4th year, everything was fine and then a stagnant air layer hung over the bay area in September and the Livermore sensors went of three times in a week.
Even in San Jose there was a yellow haze over the city during most of the summer. However about 5 years ago, the bay area air was so clean for three years in a row that if it made it through the 4th year, it would have been the first major metropolitan area in the US to have federal smog restrictions lifted. Well into the 4th year, everything was fine and then a stagnant air layer hung over the bay area in September and the Livermore sensors went of three times in a week.
#2388
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Although LA air quality has significantly improved since the 1960s, the valley is a big stagnant air trap and will never be like the bay area. I was in LA a couple weeks ago and nothing is real clear where as I could normally see the San Francisco skyline (if it wasn't covered in fog) from my townhouse in the Fremont Hills 60 miles away.
#2389
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Back in January, we took a trip up to the Bay Area -- the San Joaquin Valley had brown air while the LA basis had blue air. It used to be just the opposite.
#2390
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Although LA air quality has significantly improved since the 1960s, the valley is a big stagnant air trap and will never be like the bay area. I was in LA a couple weeks ago and nothing is real clear where as I could normally see the San Francisco skyline (if it wasn't covered in fog) from my townhouse in the Fremont Hills 60 miles away.
#2391
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Yep, the entire basin is an "air trap" as you call it. There is often an "inversion layer" which acts as a cap and the off-shore wind bottles up everything in the basin. That is why the Santana winds clean out everything. That said, several decades of strict emission controls have had an effect. In one of the other threads there was mention of oil based paint -- you can buy the stuff in L.A. in quart cans and not gallons [there is a black market in smuggling in gallons from Arizona, but I digress]. I remember back-yard incinerators from when I was a kid. Those are long gone. Most cars are post 1990 and the vehicle emissions stuff has really worked and you can't register the damn car without a biannual clean emissions test.
#2393
#2397
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Bizarrely, a BP gas station near where I live, that had been selling for $3.589 cut prices by 7c about ten days ago, and the price cut has held upto the Memorial Day weekend. Another BP under common ownship across town sells at the same price, and another nearby at 1c more. Competing Shell and Citgo stations match the prices.
#2398
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Bulk store a couple towns over, petrol was $3.46G The one in town was $3.56G
Petrol station up the road is $3.66G
So anyone seeing any price changes as we're coming into summer?
Petrol station up the road is $3.66G
So anyone seeing any price changes as we're coming into summer?
#2399
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Note, the BP stations in NC price to match other brands, even the discount ones like Marathon and Citgo. The BP just outside the nearest BJ's is sometimes selling below the BJ's price.
Last edited by Pulaski; Jun 14th 2014 at 4:42 pm.