{"id":454269,"date":"2026-09-05T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454269\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:34:08","slug":"california-gas-prices-surge-ahead-of-labor-day-weekend-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454269\/","title":{"rendered":"California gas prices surge ahead of Labor Day weekend \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to AAA, the average gas price in California for this Labor Day weekend is $5.81, $1.20 more expensive than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to AAA, the average in California is climbing, right ahead of Labor Day weekend. Fuel prices are increasing as the war with Iran continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no real sign of change in the war in the middle east and that is the main driver of the spike in gas prices, so I don\u2019t think we\u2019re likely to see any real relief in the next few weeks,\u201d Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley Faculty Director Severin Borenstein said.<\/p>\n<p>Borenstein says it\u2019s difficult to predict what the price at the pump could look like in a few months too because so much of it is driven by the war.<\/p>\n<p>Jocelyn Moran has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to AAA, the average gas price in California for this Labor Day weekend is $5.81, $1.20 more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,383],"class_list":["post-454269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454269","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=454269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}