California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6-a-Gallon Price for the War in Iran

LOS ANGELES—At a Chevron station where the gas pump had a $6.49 cash price, Veronica Cervantes listed the concessions she’s made to afford the skyrocking price of gasoline over the last two months. “I don’t go out as much as I did. When I go places nearby, I go walking. I don’t shop,” Cervantes, 54, of nearby Compton, said in Spanish on Thursday. “I go once a month to Tijuana, to see my family. My mom, my dad, my brother. I used to go up to three times a month,” Cervantes, who cleans homes for a living, added before putting back her nozzle. Frustrations over high gas prices, for drivers nationwide and especially in California, are escalating as the United States’ war in Iran presses on. The average price of regular gas in the U.S. hit $4.30 a gallon on Thursday, up 27 cents from a week prior, according to data from AAA, the motor club. A new high since the war began, the price was up $1.12 a gallon from this point last year. The station Cervantes pumped at charged people paying with a credit card $6.59 a gallon for regular unleaded. One gas station in LA reached $8.71