The summer driving season is in full swing, and for once, California drivers are catching a break—at least temporarily. The average price for a gallon of regular in the state is $4.73, down eight cents from last week and 27 cents cheaper than this time last year, according to AAA Mountain West Group spokesperson Doug Johnson. It’s the lowest average for June since 2021. But the reprieve won’t last. Starting July 1, 2025, California drivers will be hit with approximately $1.75 per gallon in gas-related taxes and fees—the highest in the country. That total includes a new $0.65-per-gallon cost increase tied to the state’s updated Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulations. Efforts to repeal the increase failed on June 4, when the California Senate rejected Senate Bill 2, which aimed to block the tax. The bill, introduced by Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, was shot down in a 10–23 vote, with Senate Democrats unanimously voting to keep the hike in place. So while prices may be easing at the pump for now, Californians can expect to pay more in just a few weeks—thanks to the politicians, who have state funded fuel cards.
Nationwide, gas is even cheaper, averaging $3.14 per gallon.
Here in Northern California, prices vary by region:
- Contra Costa: $4.85
- San Francisco: $4.93
- Oakland: $4.86
- San Jose: $4.81
- Sacramento: $4.77
- Fresno: $4.75
- Stockton: $4.69
By comparison, drivers in Mississippi are filling up for just $2.64 a gallon.
Highest taxes and by far the worst roads in the Nation. Thanks to all the dumb asses that keep voting for the same corrupt career Democrat politicians.
Voters must really like the price hikes – not me – Newscum was supposed to stop big oil price gouging as a campaign promise – he got voted in , not once but 2x … and he beat a recall …. did he even try to bring gas price parity to CA compared to the rest of the country? … nooooooo to those voters that kept voting for him – enjoy your gas prices
Dude, Big oil is not gouging anybody. The insane regulations and all the tax added by the Dems is why it costs so much.
Sorry to break it to ya.
ya must work for big oil … why did Newscum keep repeating his campaign promise then – directed at “big oil”?
The State of California is doing the price gouging. Newsom is merely deflecting by trying to blame the oil companies. My gas prices have gone down significantly.
Big oil has had recent record breaking profits since the pandemic. All they had to do was make less gasoline.
We also do not need any more taxes on our gas either.
Newscum is nothing more than a self serving con man.
It’s True, the idiots kept voting for Newsom and putting them back in office. Thank goodness he’s termed-out now ..but I don’t have a lot of faith in California voters as they’re very gullible for dare I even say stupid. They vote for these space cadets with ethereal philosophies that don’t work in the real world.
That is too much tax.
One Political Party has no shame when it comes to adding Taxes to Californians…. Have they Ever Reduced or Eliminated a Tax??
This happens because idiots are allowed to vote, and they elect Democrats who will continue to raise taxes on all of us…. forever.
The mentally challenged are deciding who our leaders and lawmakers shall be and we’re unable to do anything about it because these useful idiots on the left have us outnumbered!
They are allowed to vote because we have no standards in place to limit voting to those people who are actually intelligent enough to make sensible decisions, not even a civics test….. no qualifying necessary.
Even people with serious mental disabilities are allowed to vote.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act “anyone with a mental disability who understands what it means to vote can vote in federal elections”.
And we wind up with Gavin Newsom.
Candidate or proposition spending most money wins, also because
too many voters have the attention span of a Fungus Gnat.
More interested in how many how many signal bars their handheld
device has or what’s on TV etc.
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Other problem is number of people dependent on government
for their financial well being thru public aid or being government
employees. Then there’s unions.
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University of California has approximately 226,000 people
working for them, plus opportunity to influence some students.
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Two actions will fix most of California’s problems,
become an educated voter and
stop electing democrats.
Wow … just want I want to do, spend more on gas to drive the crap roads in this state. The cost of everything will go up in this state because it all comes by motor vehicle at one point or another in California.
way to help the people who live in California! We will not forget you Newscum. How could ever forget the damage you have done to this state. You are by far worse than Trump.
when do we see people start stealing gas trailers like the Fast and Furious? And more importantly, where would I go to fill up from one of those trailers ….
Hmm, see what happens when democrats and their unelected minions
control OUR state ? ? ?
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‘Study: California Wildfires in One Year Erased 16 Years of Emissions Cuts’
https://tinyurl.com/pzfae49p
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” Gas prices are estimated to rise by 47 cents per gallon in 2025 and
52 cents in 2026, not including the existing gas tax in the state.”
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ubze7
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“CARB and the Governor pushed an expensive gas price hike
behind closed doors, ignored public input, and misled Californians
about the real cost,” said Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-San Diego.
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“We believe their real goal is to drive gas prices so high that
working families have no choice but to buy electric vehicles,
whether they can afford them or not.”
https://tinyurl.com/mrxadzk7
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Think of gas TAX as, your reward for electing democrats.
Want lower gas prices, vote democrats OUT OF OFFICE
They believe they can bankrupt people into buying EVs.
It’s half of the carrot and the stick strategy.
In California, you just get the stick while elected officials eat the carrot.
Former Concord resident here, having left the dystopian, Californicated, one-party-rule state of Commiefornia last July. I just paid $2.80/gallon for 87 octane regular at Marathon in Waynesboro, Virginia.
My wife paid $5.69 for 18 Extra Large eggs yesterday. LARGE eggs sell for $4.19 for 18 eggs. JUMBO eggs sell for $3.99 for 12 eggs.
Wake up people. You’re getting screwed everyday and twice on Sunday.
Here’s another post that needs to be saved and archived for redistribution to the rest of the country when his Royal Highness takes a run at the Presidency. If you travel much, you understand how most people outside of California really feel about this idiot, and the political culture in California. So sad that a State that used to have so much to offer has come to this. Let’s bring back Dukmeadgen!
It’s sickening how one party rule has been allowed to destroy this once great State.
Maybe this is part of the plan to stop the exodus of the tax base to red states. Pretty soon it will cost too much to gas up the U-Haul.
Thank you CA law makers for increasing the tax on gas so people will buy an electric vehicle and save the planet from the fossil fuel industry. This is their strange way of thinking.
That’s great, assuming the State has sufficient electrical power for all those electric vehicles.
$1.35 in pure tax to add to the billions our state wastes every year. I wish the Feds would come in and help us at this point, but the voters of this state seem addicted to handing over their money to watch it disappear into the ether.
We can thank all the dumbsh*t voters who voted against Prop 6 in 2018 that would have required voter approval for the California State Legislature to impose, increase, or extend fuel taxes or vehicle fees in the future.
I’ve been driving back to Martinez from WI, and the average price for gas off of highway 80 is 2.84-3.10 per gallon. Diesel is 2.75-3.09 a gallon. No graffiti, homeless. I noticed some blight in Des Moines, which is a blue city.