{"id":175228,"date":"2026-02-12T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175228\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:07:07","slug":"kern-county-drivers-continue-to-pay-more-at-the-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175228\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County drivers continue to pay more at the pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Gas prices in California continue to be well above the national average.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trend also being seen in Kern County, despite efforts to boost local oil production.<\/p>\n<p>High state taxes and recent refinery closures are both impacting what drivers pay at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>GasBuddy&#8217;s Head of Petroleum Analysis Patrick Haan joined ARC Bakersfield to share more insight into local gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>More information about saving at the pump can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gasbuddy.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Gas prices in California continue to be well above the national average. It&#8217;s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-175228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}