{"id":379279,"date":"2026-04-03T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:46:12","slug":"big-sur-california-gas-station-charging-10-for-a-gallon-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379279\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Sur, California gas station charging $10 for a gallon of gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 2, 2026 3:35PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Drivers are paying $10 at this California gas station\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BIG SUR, Calif.  &#8212; Gas prices are topping $6 a gallon in Los Angeles County, but drivers along the California&#8217;s central coast are paying more than that to fill up their tanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A gas station in Big Sur is charging nearly $10. The owner of Gorda By The Sea says the only reason his premium gas costs $9.99 is because he&#8217;s limited by the number of digits on his pump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The high prices are because we run the place on generators. When we don&#8217;t have power, we create our own power here,&#8221; said gas station owner Leo Flores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Customers usually fill up just enough to get them to the next gas station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;They probably could charge $20 and if you have to get gas, you have to get gas,&#8221; said driver Debbie Carignan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The national average for the price of gas climbed to $4 this week. The average in California is $5.89, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to AAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 2, 2026 3:35PM BIG SUR, Calif. &#8212; Gas prices are topping $6 a gallon in Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[169521,72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-379279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-169521","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}