If you’re hitting the road for Christmas, you can be forgiven for feeling a bit envious towards drivers in other parts of the country. While gas prices have plummeted below two dollars a gallon in many places, in Southern California they’re going the opposite direction.
An average price of a gallon of regular unleaded on Wednesday is $2.93, according to Gasbuddy.com, which tracks prices. That’s 19 cents higher than both last week and last year.
The reason is California only has a few refineries so when there are problems, there’s not much room for error, said Allison Mac, an analyst at GasBuddy.com.
“Unfortunately, for the past couple weeks we’ve been seeing a lot of unplanned maintenance at the refineries which has really tugged on our supply, which is why prices have gone up.” said Mac.
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