{"id":211774,"date":"2026-03-09T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:29:08","slug":"california-gas-hits-8-a-gallon-but-fresno-prices-are-much-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211774\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gas Hits $8 a Gallon, but Fresno Prices Are Much Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the sticker shock for drivers in downtown Los Angeles when they pulled into a Chevron station and saw the price: $8.21 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s insane, insane work \u2026 it\u2019s too too high. I definitely won\u2019t be coming here for that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/gas-prices-jump-southern-california-los-angeles-county-seeing-average-517-gallon-amid-war-iran\/18691262\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denise Rodriguez told ABC7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That price represents the extreme of rising fuel prices driven by the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, California has the highest priced gas in the nation, an average of $5.20 a gallon for regular, <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to AAA<\/a> \u2014 up 73 cents from February.<\/p>\n<p>Premium averages $5.60 in California, and it\u2019s $5.96 for diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the national average is $3.48 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s all-time high average for regular is $6.44 \u2014 recorded on June 14, 2022. The record-high average for diesel is the $7.01 of June 18, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Where Are the Bargains?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are comparative bargains available for Fresno area drivers.<\/p>\n<p>A Fastrip in Kerman sold regular for $4.19 on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/gasprices\/california\/fresno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GasBuddy reports<\/a>. And on Monday,\u00a0 the EZ Trip at 2171 W. Shaw Ave., in Fresno was selling regular for $4.43.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran that\u2019s inflating gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>Refinery closures in California and the state\u2019s strict regulations for cleaner burning gas also are contributing, analysts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine the sticker shock for drivers in downtown Los Angeles when they pulled into a Chevron station and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-211774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211774","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=211774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}