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.
Allowing for currency conversion it’s USD8.23 / gallon here in Victoria, Australia.
Over $6 here
Bay Area
San Diego?
Just paid $4.89, and that’s at the cheapest gas station I know of for 20 miles. It’s 5.50 ish around me for the most part.
Us$5 a gallon? That’s almost Canadian prices. Just a little higher and that’s our day-to-day.
California taxes gasoline a lot compared to other states. It’s usually 2$ more than Texas
Sure, but it only taxes a gallon $0.50 more than Texas.
Pretty glad I drive an electric car right now.
You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
Also, Californians pay 3x the national average for electricity too.
The thing is EV owners have more money left for food.
Or, in my case, cyclists - a am mid-fifty now, and never hada car. When I feel the need to smile, I sum up the money I have saved this way.
Only half joking, but all of the new data centers raising energy prices are unfortunately coming for you too. Still way cheaper than the gas equivalent though.
Jokes on you, I’ve got an electric car and solar panels. Fuck the grid!
Hot damn I wish I could do that. We recently had our first semi serious look into solar for our place. Maybe someday.
If it gets expensive, I can always get solar. Once you pay for the initial investment of the equipment, it’s basically free energy for decades.
I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption. I definitely need to get more quotes and see what the market has to offer. It’s 100% a bucket list item for me. My other hesitation is that I don’t want to live in my state for another 10 years. I think that I’m probably stuck here, but I feel once I pull that trigger, I’ve sealed my fate. My family and my wife’s are relatively near by, and while I’d move tomorrow if I could and budget for flights back, my wife does not feel the same.
Profit margins must be maintained.
Ha. Try 2.40/litre ($11/gallon) in Norway.
True, but density, public transportation, social services, and electrification are very different in much of the US. Fuel prices hit differently depending on where you live in the world.
Norway isn’t dense. It has less population density than the US does
Maybe the US needs $11/gallon as medicine.
True, our fuel prices are way higher here in Europe, but we have a solid public transportation network, we have walkable cities and in countries like Norway the EVs are the majority.
From everything I’ve seen about US cities and American friends I talk to, for most people, if you don’t have a car you can’t get to work. That is a thought that is hard to process for Europeans.
Something you may have glossed over if you don’t live in California: March is when the state begins to the switch to “Summer-blend” (a mix of spealized petroleum with 10.5% to 15% ethanol) which is required to be available by April 1 and until October 31. The price of gas was going to increase regardless.
That is a brutal price to see. Wow.
Give it a couple days, its $5…so far…
I passed a station that was over $5.50 on my way to a $5/gallon pump (it was just a block away, thank goodness for 7/11). I imagine that average is going to go WAY up.
We destroy our land and will never reap the ‘benefits’.
I like it when gas prices go up, personally.
So all the groceries and everything else that is transported around gets to get more expensive for everyone too?
Why do you hate poor people?
We can stop subsidizing fossil fuels and make EV purchasing affordable. We could even make public transit usable, if we spent $43M/hr on it.
Yeah and if my grandma had wheels she’d be the fastest hooker in her retirement home.
I thought she’d be a bike, personally, but what do I know.
And you honestly believe that might happen during Trump’s presidency? Right now we’re worried about the rising prices in the here and now. Not what legislation we can pass maybe during the next presidency.
Poor people (households making under $50k) overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump, who started this war, so it’s really a self-own to be honest.
But, the cost of groceries going up isn’t really the part I like. For me, it’s knowing all the douchebags driving trucks that get 10mpg are gonna whine. I like it when trucks and SUV drivers take it in the teeth.
My sibling with two special needs children needs a larger vehicle to transport and live. They are as liberal as it gets and definitely didn’t vote for Trump. Lots of big vehicle owners are tools and don’t need them, but your generalizations also directly imply that those that truly need larger vehicles must also “take it in the teeth”.
Also, it’s not just poorer people that suffer from the rising prices of goods. I’m in a relatively stable and good financial situation and our household is feeling it as well, we’re just lucky enough that it’s not crippling us. Keep in mind that there are lots of poor people that also didn’t vote for Trump that you callously group with those that did.
They’re talking about people who don’t need them. Like the big spotless pavement princess pickups.
That’s not what they said. Same with our people. Like I mentioned their generalizations group everyone. If someone wants to make inflammatory statements, they should do so with specificity, otherwise they look hateful and conservative.
It’s always funny to me how people say they need a big vehicle.
Some how parents with special needs kids get by just fine in countries without American-sized trucks and SUVs, which is most countries on the planet.
Try to shove electric wheelchairs, 3 kids, 2 of which are special needs, and two adults into a small vehicle. Nobody anywhere is pulling that off. Get off your high horse.
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.
