Bay Space drivers paying $150 to refill their automobiles

Bay Space drivers are getting walloped on the pump, with some paying upwards of $150 to refill their tanks as fuel costs surge throughout Northern California.

Contemporary knowledge from the American Vehicle Affiliation reveals each Bay Space county now averaging greater than $5 a gallon, turning routine gasoline stops into painful wallet-drainers.

At roughly $5.50 per gallon, a driver filling up a 27-gallon SUV tank can anticipate to shell out about $148 to $150 for a full tank, the info reveals.

Even smaller vehicles aren’t escaping the sting. Filling a 15-gallon sedan at these costs now prices roughly $80 to $85.

At one Chevron station in Menlo Park — the place the typical price per gallon stood at $5.54 per gallon on Friday — motorists had been shocked to search out costs climbing above $7.

“Can or not it’s worse? I don’t know if it may possibly,” a driver advised KRON 4. “Transferring to California a pair years in the past, it’s the craziest it’s been.”

One pump on the station confirmed a remaining sale topping $147.

“That’s ridiculous, man,” one other driver advised the outlet. “I can’t.”

AAA’s newest county averages present a number of the priciest fuel within the area clustered round San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

Right here’s how the Bay Space stacks up:

• Marin County: about $5.53 per gallon
• San Francisco County: about $5.53 per gallon
• San Mateo County: roughly $5.54 per gallon
• Santa Clara County: about $5.53 per gallon
• Alameda County: about $5.37 per gallon
• Contra Costa County: about $5.40 per gallon

The spike has left many drivers shocked, particularly in a area already recognized for a number of the highest gasoline costs within the nation.

Throughout California, the statewide common just lately climbed to roughly $5.29 per gallon, in line with the AAA knowledge, after leaping sharply in latest days.

That’s far above the nationwide common. Drivers throughout america are paying round $3.63 per gallon, which means Bay Space drivers are paying practically $2 extra per gallon than a lot of the nation.

Power analysts say a number of forces are pushing costs larger, together with rising world oil prices, refinery constraints and California’s specialised gasoline requirements, which frequently make costs spike extra dramatic within the state than elsewhere.

Drivers pay a “California premium” loaded with larger than common state excise and gross sales taxes, as properly hefty charges for local weather applications distinctive to the state.

The state additionally requires an eco-friendly extra expensive gasoline mix designed to forestall air pollution.

Final week, oil large Chevron warned in a doomsday letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state will face financial collapse underneath his “misguided” local weather insurance policies.

State lawmakers additionally warned that Newsom’s inexperienced agenda dangers sending the value of fuel above $8 a gallon — probably returning drivers to gasoline rationing not seen for the reason that Seventies.

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