{"id":681924,"date":"2026-03-26T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:29:13","slug":"gas-station-in-las-chinatown-charging-close-to-9-per-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681924\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas station in LA’s Chinatown charging close to $9 per gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers across Southern California are feeling the pain at the pump<\/a> like never before.<\/p>\n

With global markets rattled <\/a>by the situation in Iran, crude prices have shot up, driving retail gasoline costs sharply higher nationwide, and Californians are bearing the brunt of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Right now, the average price in the state i<\/a>s hovering well above $5 a gallon, but some individual gas stations have blown past that into the jaw-dropping territory.<\/p>\n

State regulators say they\u2019re watching closely, because prices like these aren\u2019t justified by the jump in crude oil alone and could indicate unfair practices. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s energy watchdog flagged multiple gas stations charging over $7 or even $8 a gallon for regular gas, numbers that far outpace what crude costs would suggest.<\/p>\n

One station in Los Angeles\u2019 Chinatown priced regular unleaded at around $8.71 a gallon, a figure so outrageous it\u2019s become a talking point among locals and commuters.<\/p>\n

State regulators say they\u2019re watching closely, because prices like these aren\u2019t justified by the jump in crude oil alone and could indicate unfair practices by gas stations.<\/p>\n

Crude prices have shot up. Getty Images<\/p>\n

California\u2019s fuel market is uniquely isolated, with most gasoline refined within the state or brought in under strict environmental standards. That means when supply gets squeezed, prices spike harder than in other parts of the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drivers across Southern California are feeling the pain at the pump like never before. Carlin Stiehl for California Post<\/p>\n

State taxes, fees and clean\u2011air fuel requirements already make California\u2019s pump prices among the highest in the nation, even before a global supply shock.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And with crude prices climbing because of geopolitical instability<\/a> <\/a>tied to the Iran war, that effect is amplified.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers across Southern California are feeling the pain at the pump like never before. With global markets rattled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":681925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,26769,9967,78189,71,2961,224,5337,5248,270,11411,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-681924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-gas","11":"tag-gas-prices","12":"tag-gas-stations","13":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-metro","18":"tag-oil","19":"tag-oil-prices","20":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}