Gas prices jump to 9-month high
The average price of a gallon of gas across the U.S. is $3.83 according to AAA, a 9-month high. Wall Street Journal reporter Hardika Singh joined CBS News to discuss the reason for the price spike at the pump.
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The average price of a gallon of gas across the U.S. is $3.83 according to AAA, a 9-month high. Wall Street Journal reporter Hardika Singh joined CBS News to discuss the reason for the price spike at the pump.
California has America's most expensive gas at around $5.00 a gallon. The cheapest is in Mississippi at $3.32 a gallon.
Drivers in the state of Washington are celebrating the official start of summer with an unwelcome sight: America's most expensive gas prices.
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Filling up at the pump might not be cheap. But gas prices are miles away from last summer's nightmare.
California lawmakers on Monday approved the nation's first penalty for price gouging at the pump, voting to give regulators the power to punish oil companies for profiting from the type of gas price spikes that plagued the nation's most populous state last summer.
A first-in-the-nation bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump breezed through the California Senate on Thursday at the urging of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the first major vote in an effort to pass the law by month's end.
California lawmakers on Thursday will vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging at the pump, a first-in-the-country proposal aimed at stopping the kind of spikes last summer that caused some drivers pay up to $8 per gallon as the industry reaped super-sized profits.
Chevron has not complied with a new California law requiring it to disclose how much money it is making from selling gasoline in the state, setting up a showdown with state regulators over data that Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration requested in order to impose the nation's first penalty on excessive oil profits.
Crude oil prices have fallen below $80 per barrel, resulting in cheaper prices at the pump, according to experts.
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Experts say these low prices are partially due to recession fears and soft demand.
The great gasoline spike of 2022 has completely unwound, giving consumers a major boost after a year of high inflation.
'Tis the season for giving, and more and more drivers are getting good deals on gas, including in Woodland where one gas station posted the lowest prices in the state this week.
'Tis the season for giving, and more and more drivers are getting good deals on gas, including in Woodland where one gas station posted the lowest prices in the state this week.
California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for making too much money, a reaction to the industry's supersized profits following a summer of record-high gas prices in the nation's most populous state.
Furious about oil companies' supersized profits after a summer of record-high gas prices, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday will formally start his campaign to punish big producers by asking the Legislature to fine them and give the money back to drivers.
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