Although Californians have typically paid the steepest gas prices in the U.S., the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has some Golden State drivers shelling out more than $6 per gallon for regular unleaded fuel in recent weeks.
But a slight decline in the state’s average gas price, from $5.919 to $5.910 Wednesday, could spell promising news in the weeks ahead.
Southern California, which has been hardest hit by the spike in prices, could see a drop of between 35 to 75 cents per gallon in the next few weeks, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, wrote on Twitter.
