Drivers in California were stunned to find gas selling for just 59 cents a gallon at one station in the Central Valley as a massive surge in the cost of fuel hits the state.
It happened at the C’s Oasis Mobil in Fresno late Friday night into early Saturday morning when the owner said hackers caused the dramatic price drop, resulting in the store suffering large losses.
A driver’s receipts showed they paid a total of $8.97 at the pump for 15 gallons. Another’s showed the person only had to fork out $3.49 for their fill of 6 gallons.
Both receipts at the top showed that the price per gallon should’ve been $5.95 a gallon, but that wasn’t what they paid at the register.
The problem has since been fixed though it is unclear at this point how it happened.
The shocking cost prices at the Mobile pump is now under investigation by the Exxon Corporation to find out what went wrong.
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in the Golden State stood at a whopping $5.822 on Tuesday— more than 10 cents above Saturday’s average and well over a dollar higher than a month ago, according to the American Automobile Association.
The spike followed steady increases since the start of the war in Iran.
Before the US-Israeli strikes in Iran sent shockwaves through global oil markets, the average cost per gallon in California sat at $4.642 — still well above the national average of $2.982.
The situation in California is made worse by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s green agenda, which risks sending the price of a gallon above $8 per gallon, lawmakers and experts have warned.
Drivers in the Golden State pay a “California premium” that includes higher-than-average state excise and sales taxes, as well hefty fees for climate programs unique to the state.
California also requires a special and more costly fuel blend designed to prevent smog, which only the state’s refineries and specific Asian countries can produce.
OIl giant Chevron warned in a doomsday letter to Newsom earlier this month that California will face economic collapse under Newsom’s “misguided” climate policies.
The California Post reached out to the owner of C’s Oasis and Exxon for further comment.
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