Originally Posted By doombuggy Our trip is only a week away and would like to know what gas prices are for regular along the I-5. We're starting in WA. 60ml north of Portland. Any and all info would be helpful.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh Got a Costco membership? There are Costco gas stations right off I5 in Wilsonville, Salem, and Medford. If you go down 99 instead of 5 there are some more, but the money you'd save probably wouldn't be worth the extra time. The Fred Meyer in Grants Pass is generally cheaper than regular gas stations. In Redding, I usually take the Hilltop mall exit, turn left, and buy from the cheapie gas station across from the Toys R us.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Try the web site www.gasbuddy.com I think they have a way to map it out.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains What are you driving and how many miles do you have to go to before you need gas?
Originally Posted By berol Just north of Redding, I take the Oasis exit to ARCO. It's on the southbound side.
Originally Posted By allthingsdisney hey doom we r neighbors we r only around 40 miles north of portland gas has gone way down here in last few weeks i think we r around 2.84 to 2.94 depending on the station
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 oh how i miss living in arizona...2.20 you can't go wrong with arco! they're pretty much always the cheapest.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I would say that we travel up and down the 5 (just the CA section) visiting family and I have one tip. When you get to Santa Nella (you'll know because you will have been seeing all these signs for Pea Soup Andersons) FILL UP!! I don't care if you only have a half tank, fill up. After Santa Nella you are about to enter the Great Central Valley, hours and hours of farm land, with no real towns along the interstate. There will be gas every so often but it will be at scalp me prices. I forget exactly where the fill up place is comming back in the other directin, but on your way there pay attention to where they start actually advertising prices, probably about Buttonwillow, near Bakersfield.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Our last trip, the price was a 75 cent difference between the empty great central valley and the places where people actually live.
Originally Posted By ABBY In Corning there is a truck stop with pretty good prices...Not sure what the name of it is. About 60 miles south, in Dunnigan, there is a Pilot that usually has the cheapest gas in this area. We always get gas there when going to the bay area.
Originally Posted By doombuggy allthingsdisney...You must be around the Longview/Kelso area? We're in Toledo. We have a 03 Taurus and get about 400ml to the tank, 14 to 15gal tank. I usually gas up in Cottage Grove then Medford, Redding, stay the night in Woodland and gas up there. Funny Andersons Pea Soup was brought up cause that's one of the places we stop on that looooooonnnggggg dullllllll part of the CA drive. I don't have a Costco card but I do have a Safeway club card that works at Vons as well. I just paid $2.79 so I'm hopping it will at least stay there if not go lower.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Okay if you can go that far I would gas up at the Pea Soup exit - but on the right hand side of the freeway at the Rotten Robbie, they are usually the best priced at that stop, there is also a drive through Starbucks a couple doors down from the Rotton Robbie station that has really clean restrooms. Looking at a map you can see if you will need gas before that, probably not, but if so I would gas up in Lathrop it's running about $2.75 off highway 5 there, according to the gasbuddy web site. The other places that are usually pretty fair priced are buttonwillow, and then there is a Pilot station after the grapevine in Castaic on the other side of the freeway. I usually get gas there on the way home if I have been driving around LA very much (I have a 44 gal Diesel tank so if I just go there and back I start in Westley at the truck stop and can get back to Westley before I need Diesel again!!) Drive safe....
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh There is a Safeway gas in Woodland. I filled up there once, but the last couple of times I've been through I couldn't remember where it was.
Originally Posted By doombuggy Going down I learned the hard way NOT to gas up before the grapevine. After I got to the top I found out I got ripped by a dime.
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 gottaluvdavillians...your comment made me laugh. A couple of weeks ago we drove by that rotten robbie and my grandpa was saying we should get gas there and I was all Grandpa don't you know you aren't supposed to put that horrible gas in your car. It was an on going debate the whole car ride home. Haha. doombuggy...That has happened to us a couple of times so now we always try to make it to the shell next to the in n out on the other side of the grapevine.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Funny My subaru runs great on Rotten Robbie - I get the best mileage in the forrester to DL when I fill up there...I very rarely take the subaru (only if I have two or less of my kids with me) otherwise I fill up at Joe's truck stop in westley (good diesel for my excursion - won't need gas again until I get back to Westley - gotta love that 44 gal truck!!)
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Oh yeah they are opening a rotton robbie near my house in livermore - and we can't wait!! WE have liked them since we lived in San Jose!!
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 Rotten Robbie in the past has gotten in trouble a few times for poor quality of gas. I don't know the exacts all I know is the day I got my license my dad told me don't you ever put that gas in your car so I obey. Haha. I don't think it effects that the short term I believe it has more long term negative effects on your engine. Who really knows at this point. I just choose to stay away from them as there isn't really a difference in price for us here.
Originally Posted By BoyStory ^^^ LOL, isn't it funny how we girls trust dad like that. I'm in my 30's and I still obey my dad about things like what kind of gas to put in my car, etc. My hubby's thrilled by this btw;-P (LOL!) Anyhoo, we usually stop in Santa Nella for gas on the way back (even though we live just an hour north)so I know we've filled up with Rotten Robbie before. Must do research on that one;0). We once noted a $.30 difference from the bottom of the GV to the other side- unbelievable! Gottaluv- I must not be too observant- where are they putting in a Rotten Robbie?
