Gas Stations

Spirit (now a Shell) offered competitive prices at the intersection of Mace Blvd. and Interstate 80

• Anderson Road Chevron
  

• Arco AMPM - Locations at both Mace and Anderson (Diesel on Mace & 2nd)
  

• Circle K (Diesel) - Top 5 slowest pumps in the city, says JesseSingh
  

• Davis 1 Stop
  

• Davis Shell
  

• El Macero Shell (Diesel)
  

• Fast & Easy Chevron (Diesel)
  

• Hoffmann 76
  

• Shell (Diesel) at Mace & Chiles
  

• South Davis Chevron
  

• University Shell
  

• Valero
  

• West Coast Fueling Systems Inc
  

The cheapest in town tends to be Arco (at Russell & Anderson or Mace & 2nd Street) — a downside is they don't take Visa, only cash or ATM plus $.45 annoyance fee. Circle K and Spirit seem to be competitive, yet are still independently owned.

Lowest Davis regular gas prices in the last 60 hours

National color-coded price map

Serious request: could people time how fast the pumps are? Log the station address, pump number, pump mfr. (or whatever you can), and the rate (gallons/minute).

Derived figures: Using 135MJ/gallon, 6.56 GPM becomes 14.8 MW -that's 14.8 megawatts of power (over 12000x what you can get from a home electrical outlet) when you fill up!

• Are there any non-private sources? See Biodiesel.

• The Davis Natural Gas Fueling Station, also listed on Clean Car Maps.

Located throughout downtown and on campus, these are places where you can charge your electric vehicle.

• City Hall parking lot
  

• South F parking lot, to the rear of the Brinley Building
  

• Bottom level of the USDA parking lot

• Fleet Services which is part of the California Hydrogen Highway program. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger came and gave a speech here to kick off the program.

• I.e. fuel for your own leg-power. Ride a bike!

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2007-05-19 18:58:22   Is there anything on mechanics and garages on the wiki? —heyitsdimo

See Automobile Repair... —NickSchmalenberger

2008-01-23 11:32:04   Does anyone know of a station that has a free air pump? —StephenPriest

The Chevron near the Chiles/Mace exit from I-80 has free air and water.

2008-05-11 12:47:58   I've noticed the Circle K tends to be only about two to three cents more expensive than the Arco on Russell and Anderson. —ElleWeber

2008-06-05 10:34:28   Beware of this gas station "76" in front of Chevron in South Davis. The price in their pump may be different from the posted (road sign) price. They have two posted prices for regular gasoline, one is 10 cents cheaper but only if you will purchase their full service car wash (this note is written in very small text relative to the price text). Anyway, the regular price (without car wash purchase) was 4.359 went I went there this morning, then while refuelling, a guy went out and change it to 4.419 but I noticed from the time that I went in there that the price shown in the pump was 4.459. I didn't have time to go to another station so I just pumped 10 gal. I went inside the store to get my receipt and tell the guy about the price but this guy pretended to be so busy on the phone and only said that he's working on it. —odyssey

2008-06-18 09:43:15   Careful of the North Davis 76 (Covell and 113). Last night I was filling up my car with diesel. I began to be alarmed when the pump said that it had already put in 13 gallons, since my tank holds 14.5 and I had at least 1.5 gallons already in there. It started to make a new sound, like the fuel coming through the hose was trailing off, but the numbers kept going at the same speed as before. By the time I stopped it, it read 14.51 gallons. I went in and talked to the owner, who refused to admit that there could be anything wrong with the pump (he was giving me about 20 different reasons, including that fuel expands and contracts with temperature, so somehow my tank could actually hold more than what the owner's manual states). He finally said that he'd have the pump checked out "for my peace of mind" and took my name and number, but I don't expect to get any money back. —nicolemans

2008-07-27 22:57:02   For some reason, though Arco and Circle K are, respectively, 4.15/ and 4.14/gallon, currently the Chevron and Shell stations at the intersection of Anderson and Covell are both at 3.99/gallon. Weird, but I cannot complain. —JoePomidor

2009-04-11 10:58:18   Something I've found to help just a tiny bit. Gas is measured at the pump by volume, therefore when it is cold it's volume is decreased. If you buy your gas late at night once the tanks have cooled you get just a little bit more for your money. Admittedly the tanks being underground means the temperature change is slight, but there is a disclaimer on the pumps @ Costco in Woodland. —MasonMurray