{"id":351128,"date":"2026-06-08T01:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:21:36","slug":"americas-favorite-gas-price-app-releases-doomsday-outlook-for-summer-of-hell-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351128\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s favorite gas price app releases doomsday outlook for summer of hell in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

California drivers may want to brace for a painful summer<\/a> at the pump after GasBuddy warned the Golden State could be headed for one of its most unpredictable fuel seasons<\/a> in years.<\/p>\n

Patrick De Haan, an analyst with the popular gas-price tracking app, said California is facing what could be \u201cpotentially one of the most volatile summers for gasoline prices\u201d as global tensions<\/a> and local supply concerns collide.<\/p>\n

Patrick De Haan, an analyst with the popular gas-price tracking app, said California is facing what could be \u201cpotentially one of the most volatile summers for gasoline prices.\u201d Instagram\/@gasbuddyguy<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation that we find ourselves in is completely unpredictable,\u201d De Haan said during an interview with KCRA<\/a>. Haan pointed to on-again, off-again negotiations involving Iran and concerns surrounding the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a key global oil shipping route.<\/p>\n

The warning comes as officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s administration acknowledged this week that gas prices were already climbing before the conflict involving Iran intensified.<\/p>\n

California drivers may want to brace for a painful summer at the pump after GasBuddy warned the Golden State could be headed for one of its most unpredictable fuel seasons in years. Shutterstock \/ Andrew Will<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, California Energy Commission Vice Chair Siva Gunda told lawmakers that the state has enough oil and gasoline supply to meet demand for at least the next 7 to 8 weeks. Beyond that, he said, there is uncertainty over where prices could head.<\/p>\n

California Energy Commission Vice Chair Siva Gunda told lawmakers that the state has enough oil and gasoline supply to meet demand for at least the next 7 to 8 weeks. Noah Berger for California Post<\/p>\n

Gunda also said that if fuel shortages were to emerge nationwide, overseas suppliers would likely continue sending fuel to California because motorists here are willing to pay higher prices.<\/p>\n

De Haan agreed. But even if the conflict overseas ends, Californians may not see immediate relief.<\/p>\n

If fuel shortages were to emerge nationwide, overseas suppliers would likely continue sending fuel to California because motorists here are willing to pay higher prices. dennizn \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia\u2019s game has changed with the shutdown of these two refineries over the last year. It\u2019s still a new era for California that it\u2019s going to be beholden to countries as far away as Asia for supplies to meet demand. That is going to be a struggle moving forward,\u201d De Haan said.<\/p>\n

The Newsom administration argued this week that oil companies are making larger profits from California drivers and the conflict involving Iran.<\/p>\n

De Haan pointed instead to California\u2019s environmental policies and the refinery shutdowns that have reshaped the state\u2019s fuel market.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia has created now a closed loop system where the remaining amount of refiners are more profitable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California drivers may want to brace for a painful summer at the pump after GasBuddy warned the Golden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6996,756,147,4182,5931,3586],"class_list":["post-351128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cars","tag-gas","tag-gas-prices","tag-metro","tag-summer","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351128","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=351128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}