{"id":2327,"date":"2018-02-02T21:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:31:27","slug":"chukchansi-opens-new-gas-station-travel-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/chukchansi-opens-new-gas-station-travel-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukchansi opens new gas station, travel center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chukchansi Crossing Fuel Station & Travel Center in Coarsegold has opened a year after construction started in January 2017,<\/p>

The station features 18 pumps, two pumps in the back that will host motor homes and trucks, two electric charging stations and a smoke shop.<\/p>

A car wash, a Peet\u2019s Coffee shop, and a burger restaurant will be added in the near future, according to an article by Donald A. Promnitz in The Business Journal of Fresno.<\/p>

The Chukchansi station is one of two to be opened recently by Indian nations in this area, joining a third, the Eagle Feather Trading Post in Porterville.<\/p>

Yokut Gas, a Lemoore station run by the Tachi-Yokut tribe, opened about the same time as the Chukchansi station and includes 16 gas and diesel pumps, two racing fuel pumps and two electric charging stations. There is also a 3,000-square-foot convenience store with plans to add beer and wine sales.<\/p>

The Tule River Tribe has been operating the third site, Eagle Feather Trading Post in Porterville.<\/p>

The Tule River Tribe also bought a second location in Avenal, but it is not on reservation land.<\/p>

J.J. Mancini, president of Desert Fuels, a petroleum wholesaler in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said he has seen a significant rise in the demand for gasoline on reservation land, because tax laws are different for reservations, giving tribes a price advantage..<\/p>

\u201cIf you see a tribe as their own sovereign nation \u2014 which they are \u2014 they fall under federal government jurisdiction and generally not under state government jurisdiction,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cIt varies state-by-state. Some tribes have reached a pact with the state so that the fuel taxes just pass through, or even tobacco taxes pass through.\u201d<\/p>

Mancini said the result is cheaper prices and a better bargain for the customers.<\/p>

\u201cAll the tribe is trying to do is gain a price advantage, so that they get the customers,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cIf they get the customers, then just like Costco or Sam\u2019s Club, they\u2019re bringing people into their other businesses, whether it\u2019s liquor sales, convenience stores, casinos, etc., and they\u2019re using fuel as a draw.\u201d<\/p>

However, there is no guarantee that reservation fuel will be the cheapest in town. In Porterville, there are at least two gas stations that are cheaper than Eagle Feather according to fuel price database gasbuddy.com.<\/p>

In Coarsegold, Chukchansi Crossing\u2019s low prices are 10 cents cheaper than Coarsegold Self Service, with the cost of regular unleaded going at $2.59 per gallon.<\/p>

\u201cWe focus on the volume instead of the margin,\u201d said Amar Singh, the manager at Coarsegold Self Service. \u201cAnd we\u2019re trying to help the town over here.\u201d<\/p>

Still, as long as reservations are able to keep prices down, Mancini said, it\u2019s likely this trend will continue.<\/p>

\u201cI think that it would be a no brainer for tribes to do that,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cIf they can sell a similar, or like product at a significant discount \u2014 as far as a business perspective \u2014 is a business person\u2019s dream to sell the exact same product at a significant discount.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chukchansi Crossing Fuel Station & Travel Center in Coarsegold has opened a year after construction started in January 2017, The station features 18 pumps, two pumps in the back that will host motor homes and trucks, two electric charging stations and a smoke shop. A car wash, a Peet\u2019s Coffee shop, and a burger restaurant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}