{"id":713843,"date":"2021-09-03T14:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713843"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:35:57","slug":"california-gas-prices-hit-all-time-high-for-labor-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gas-prices-hit-all-time-high-for-labor-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gas Prices Hit All-Time High For Labor Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-gas-prices-hit-all-time-high-for-labor-day-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713843&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/California-Traffic.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Labor Day travelers in California are paying the highest gas prices ever for this time of the year, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aaa-calif.com\/news\/labor-day-travelers-paying-highest-gas-prices-ever-for-this-holiday\">according<\/a> to the Auto Club of Southern California\u2019s Weekend Gas Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The club is affiliated with the American Automobile Association (AAA), which <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/state-gas-price-averages\/\">found<\/a> that the average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Golden State hit $4.40 on Friday, compared to the average national cost of $3.18.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s gas prices are the highest in the nation and have added fuel to the drive the recall Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. A special election is set for September 14, when voters will choose whether to remove him from office. Californians pay the nation\u2019s highest gasoline taxes, paying 51.1 cents a gallon in state fees. The state\u2019s excise tax on gas most recently increased in July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/article252502023.html\">According<\/a> to the Sacramento Bee, \u201cThat tax climbs almost every summer to account for inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican lawmakers (in June) put forward a proposal to suspend state gas tax collections one year, citing the state\u2019s unprecedented $80 billion budget surplus and the financial strains on Californians returning to commutes after COVID-19 restrictions,\u201d The Bee reported. \u201cTheir proposal failed in the Democratic-led Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state gas tax increases are tied to a bill passed in 2017 to fund road repairs. California voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/proposition-6-fails-to-pass-gas-tax-transportation-projects-safe-for-now\/103-612093612\">rejected<\/a> a proposition to repeal the tax the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices in many of the state\u2019s major population centers are at the highest rates since October 2012, when prices in San Diego reached a record price of $4.72 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the first weekly price drop of 2021 last month in many areas, local prices rose slightly last week after a brief refinery outage, but so far do not seem to be affected by Hurricane Ida-related issues since no oil or gasoline is supplied to California from Gulf Coast refineries,\u201d said Auto Club spokesman Jeffrey Spring. \u201cPrice increases all this year mean that Labor Day travelers will be paying the highest prices ever for this holiday, but the Auto Club expects that travelers will economize in other ways to cover that increased cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spring told The Daily Wire that families tend to dine at less expensive restaurants, or may choose to picnic, to compensate for the higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2021-09-03\/californians-pay-highest-gas-prices-ever-for-labor-day-weekend\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>In California, gas prices usually begin to drop in late August as the summer travel season ends. But Spring said demand has remained strong, keeping prices from falling. Prices, he said, will eventually drop over the next several weeks as the travel season ends and Southern California gas stations switch in late October to a new less-expensive blend of gasoline.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>California\u2019s strict environmental standards require the state gasoline formula to change twice a year. The Times previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-gasoline-manipulation-infobox-20150706-story.html\">reported<\/a>, it changes \u201cfrom a winter recipe to a summer blend designed to retard evaporation during warm-weather months.\u201d The summer blend is more expensive to produce to meet air quality requirements.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day travelers in California are paying the highest gas prices ever for this time of the year, according to the Auto Club of Southern California\u2019s Weekend Gas Watch.The club &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}