EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) \u2013 Drivers across the Borderland say filling up the tank is no longer a simple errand, but a cost that can shape the rest of the week\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n
According to AAA, the average price for regular gas in El Paso is about $3.89 a gallon, while in Las Cruces it is about $3.92 a gallon.<\/p>\n
For Jaime Gomez, an El Paso surgeon who drives across the city for work, the impact goes beyond the pump.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s impacting the prices of everything, including groceries,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cI\u2019m a surgeon and I cover both sides of the city. It is definitely impacting me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gomez said higher gas prices do not stay at the gas station. He believes they spread into nearly every part of daily life, from food to household expenses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat everything else is going to go up, basically,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just the gas prices\u2026 it spreads to all other whatever we consume, whatever we buy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that filling up now feels like losing more of his paycheck.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I have less money\u2026 because my car now is costing me almost\u2026 about $90,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n
Just across the state line in Santa Teresa, Alma Tieguez said her family is also feeling the strain.<\/p>\n
\u201cTodo, todo lo que es gasolina, lo que es no comestible y todo,\u201d Tieguez said, explaining that everything seems to be getting more expensive.<\/p>\n
She said her family is trying to cut back on trips just to save gas.<\/p>\n
\u201cCasi tratamos de no salir\u2026 para ahorrar gasolina,\u201d Tieguez said.<\/p>\n
For drivers in both El Paso and southern New Mexico, the story is not just about a few cents difference from one city to the next. It is about how fast those costs add up for families already juggling groceries, bills, and work commutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s just no way out of it,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cWe need our cars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) \u2013 Drivers across the Borderland say filling up the tank is no longer a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-215804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}