The war in Iran has caused a spike in gas prices that is hitting California consumers especially hard, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA).
AAA reports that in California, the most expensive US market for gas, the average price per gallon on Monday was $5.20, compared with $3.47 nationally. The national average climbed nearly $0.50 since the conflict began more than a week ago, while in the Golden state it rose by $0.55.
Since the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on 28 February, leading to intensifying violence across the Middle East, the price of oil surged to more than $100 a barrel for the first time in nearly four years. The conflict has damaged oil and gas facilities and stranded ships carrying roughly 20m barrels of oil a day in the Gulf.
About 20% of the world’s oil is shipped through the strait of Hormuz every day but the channel has essentially been closed for the last week.
So the preexisting difference in price between CA and the rest of the USA was bigger than three wars with Iran… CA voters are a mystery to me.
its also the state whose most aggressive with pushing EVs, which is also unaffected by these prices.
You mean directly effected. 1.4% of vehicles in the US are EVs, so if 98.6% are powered by fossil fuels then everything that has to be transported will become more expensive.
A tank of gasoline is the least of my concerns with spending money. It was less than $500 last paycheck for 2 weeks of food, which is much higher than it was last year. It was over $800 this paycheck.
Fuck Dump
Everything is expensive in California yet most people own no property and live in squalor because all of that money is just going to their overlords.
The weather must be fucking AMAZING
There are fewer homeless people in BFE Alabama because there is no city. Same thing on tropical islands.
Alabama is humid as hell and tropical islands are notoriously hard to get to
Gas taxes pay for transportation infrastructure and environmental efforts, similar to some European countries. That at least goes to something, unlike gas prices going up due to pointless wars.