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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Rebecca Schneid

A sign of the times, and not a good one: $8.05 for a gallon of regular at an LA station

LOS ANGELES — Marvis Joy thought it was bad enough that the gas he was pumping into his Jeep Wrangler cost $7.85 for a gallon of regular. But he was taken aback when he heard how much that same gallon cost at that same downtown Los Angeles Chevron station just two days earlier.

An eye-popping $8.05.

"You've got to be kidding me," Joy said Thursday morning, noting that you'd never see such an outrage in his hometown of St. Louis.

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