Sacramento, CA…California gas prices are 20 cents lower than one month ago and 17 cents lower than one year ago – despite a swirl of misinformation drawing attention to current prices.
According to a 2024 report, thanks to major improvements in fuel efficiency, California drivers rank 45th in the nation for gasoline consumption and 21st in spending on gasoline per capita. Trump’s tariffs and policies impacting the price of crude oil stand to swing gas prices far more than any state policy.
Driven by misinformation pushed by Republican lawmakers and the oil industry, there remains a lot of speculation about California gas prices. Here are the facts.
CLAIM: California gas prices will go up by 65 cents or higher on July 1.
FALSE. There are two separate changes to fuel prices expected on or around July 1 – a legislatively mandated and voter-approved gas tax increase of 1.6 cents and updated fuel standards that could, according to experts, translate to 5 to 8 cents.
- Gas tax: California’s gasoline tax will increase by 1.6 cents per gallon, starting July 1, as required by law. This annual inflation increase was enacted by the Legislature in 2017 to help pay for road repairs – and overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018 when they rejected a repeal attempt.
- Fuel standard: Additionally, changes to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) – which is not a tax – have been requested to go into effect on July 1. Experts at UC Davis estimate this program, first established by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, could add between 5 and 8 cents per gallon – well below one extreme projection that showed 65 cents. In the long term, LCFS is estimated to reduce fuel costs for Californians per mile by 42% – translating to savings of over $20 billion in gasoline costs every year by 2045. Studies also show that LCFS credit prices have no correlation with gasoline prices.
CLAIM: Gas prices could top $8 a gallon by next year.
FALSE. That number – widely reported in the media – comes from an unscientific analysis whose author has close ties with the oil industry and has been on the payroll of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The author fails to provide evidence to support his main claim and only relies on vague references to models with no details on what those models are based on. Other experts, such as these Stanford economists, say gas price increases based on recent refinery announcements are likely to be negligible.
Correcting the record
Republican lawmakers in Congress recently echoed false claims about California gas prices in a letter. Here’s what they got wrong. (View full-size here.)
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Gavin literally hates rural Californians!!! They all want you to live in a metro area and ride your electric scooter to work or take public transit. If you are self reliant, love rural America and want to build your life there, be warned his govt will try to make your life a painful living hell.
Myths that dumbacrats believe about the Big Beautiful Bill.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill is “just a tax break for billionaires.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history. The President’s legislation will put more than $10,000 a year back in the pockets of typical hardworking families. This is the most pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-family legislation ever crafted.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “takes from the poor to give to the rich.”
FACT: Low-income workers stand to receive the largest percentage reduction in their tax liability. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest tax cut in history for working-and-middle class Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “makes life more unaffordable.”
FACT: The bill delivers bigger paychecks, expanding take-home pay by over $10,000 per year for a typical family.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “hurts low-income families.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill is the most pro-family legislation ever crafted. It will deliver bigger paychecks, giving more than a $10,000 boost annually to everyday families. We are also expanding Opportunity Zones, expanding childcare access, increasing the child tax credit, and creating newborn savings accounts.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “is just a handout to corporations.”
FACT: This bill drives a Blue-Collar BOOM with tax relief for workers, support for small businesses, and investments in American manufacturing. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “leaves American workers behind.”
FACT: This is the most pro-American worker bill in history. The One Big Beautiful Bill boosts pay for millions—and with no tax on tips or overtime, those working hourly and service jobs receive additional tax relief.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “hurts small businesses.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill will make the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, including the small business deduction—helping Main Street grow and hire. Failure to pass this legislation would result in a $4 trillion tax hike.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “kicks American families off Medicaid.”
FACT: As the President has said numerous times, there will be no cuts to Medicaid. The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for those who rely on it—pregnant women, children, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families—while eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. The One Big Beautiful Bill removes illegal aliens, enforces work requirements, and protects Medicaid for the truly vulnerable.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “cuts Medicare.”
FACT: Medicare has not been touched in this bill— absolutely nothing in the bill reduces spending on Medicare benefits. This legislation does not make a single cut to welfare programs—it safeguards and protects these programs for all eligible Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “will close rural hospitals.”
FACT: Rural hospitals comprise just 7% of all hospital spending on Medicaid, illustrating that they have not benefited from the massive increase in waste, fraud, and abuse under the Biden administration. By strengthening Medicaid, we are making more resources available for vulnerable populations and safety net providers, like rural hospitals. We are expanding rural hospital protection, providing targeted funds for rural care, and giving states flexibility to support local providers.
MYTH: “People will literally die” from the One Big Beautiful Bill — “and millions will be kicked off their healthcare.”
FACT: This is one of the most egregious, deranged attacks from the Left peddling fear over the facts. The One Big Beautiful Bill protects eligible Americans on federal welfare – including Medicaid. By strengthening the integrity of Medicaid by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, its resources can be refocused on providing better care for those whom the program was designed to serve: pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, low-income seniors, and other vulnerable low-income families.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “will hurt people with disabilities.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for Americans with disabilities. Rest assured, those with disabilities receiving Medicaid will receive no loss or change in coverage.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “punishes vulnerable Americans with work requirements to receive their benefits.”
FACT: Not true. The 20-hour weekly work requirement applies only to able-bodied adults without young children and promotes dignity, stability, and better health outcomes for families. The One Big Beautiful Bill restores the dignity of work with historically bipartisan work requirements for able-bodied Americans. We are implementing commonsense, Clinton-era work, volunteer, education, or training requirements with broad bipartisan support.
MYTH: “There’s no fraud in Medicaid — Republicans are just taking coverage away from vulnerable populations.”
FACT: In the last 10 years, CMS admitted that improper payments for Medicaid have exceeded HALF A TRILLION dollars. In just the past year, taxpayers spent $56 billion on benefits for able-bodied adults abusing the system—and over a million illegal aliens are receiving free health care on the backs of taxpayers. The One Big Beautiful Bill removes illegal aliens, enacts work requirements for able-bodied adults, and protects Medicaid for the truly vulnerable.
MYTH: “SNAP work requirements are unnecessary.”
FACT: Only 28% of able-bodied adults on SNAP work. The One Big Beautiful Bill promotes work, responsibility, and restores SNAP to serve the truly needy. SNAP enrollment remains high even in a strong economy, including millions of able-bodied adults who could work. In fact, almost three-quarters of able-bodied adults without dependents on SNAP have no earned income. The mission of the program has failed. SNAP was intended to be temporary help for those who encounter tough times—we are strengthening this program to serve those who need it most.
MYTH: “Illegal aliens don’t get federal benefits.”
FACT: Illegals burden taxpayers with billions in costs for free health care and welfare benefits. The One Big Beautiful Bill ends Medicaid and SNAP fraud and ensures these programs serve only eligible Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “doesn’t actually end taxes on Social Security.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers historic tax relief to seniors, with a new tax deduction that, combined with other deductions, ensures the average Social Security beneficiary will pay zero taxes on Social Security.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “increases the deficit.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill reduces deficits by over $2 trillion by increasing economic growth and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across government programs at an unprecedented rate. This legislation delivers historic levels of mandatory savings. President Trump’s pro-growth economic formula will reduce the deficit, increase wages, deliver American jobs, and drive down the cost of living.
MYTH: “But the CBO says….”
FACT: The Crooked Budget Office has a terrible record with its predictions and hasn’t earned the attention the media gives it. The CBO misreads the economic consequences of not extending the Trump Tax Cuts. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers real savings that will unleash our economy and prevent the largest tax hike in history, resulting in historic prosperity, while lowering the debt burden.
MYTH: “There’s too much ‘pork’ in this bill.”
FACT: There’s no pork in the bill. Every single provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill is a campaign promise the American people elected President Trump to deliver. The only new spending in the bill is to secure the homeland of the United States and save American sovereignty — which is fully paid for by increased visa fees on foreigners.
MYTH: “The One Big Beautiful Bill won’t strengthen national security.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers on President Trump’s Peace Through Strength agenda by funding the Golden Dome missile defense system and modernizing our military to prioritize lethality and readiness. It fully equips our war fighters with the resources they need while modernizing and revolutionizing our equipment and technology.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “helps ‘Big Oil’ and locks up U.S. energy resources.”
FACT: Quite the opposite. It unleashes American energy, refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and repeals the Green New Scam policies. The One Big Beautiful Bill unleashes clean, American-made energy and will reduce the cost of living for Americans nationwide.
MYTH: “Manufacturing jobs will still go overseas.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers 100% expensing for new domestic factories, revitalizes Opportunity Zones, and incentivizes companies to keep jobs in America.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “neglects rural America.”
FACT: This bill invests in rural communities, expands market access, and delivers historic support to farm families. The One Big Beautiful Bill provides the certainty America’s farm families need to continue operating and producing the affordable, safe, and abundant supply of food, fuel, and fiber that our nation relies on.
MYTH: “SNAP is being gutted and cutting food stamps for families, causing them to go hungry.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens SNAP. Right now, almost three-quarters of able-bodied adults without dependents on SNAP have no earned income and the fraud rate is high. The mission of the program has failed: SNAP was intended to be temporary help for those who encounter tough times. Now, it’s become so bloated that it is leaving fewer resources for those who truly need help. We are committed to preserving SNAP for the truly needy.
MYTH: “Republicans are shutting Democrats out of the legislative process.”
FACT: This is not a partisan bill—Democrats shut themselves out by supporting higher taxes, open borders, and giveaways to illegal immigrants. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers on Republican promises to lower taxes, secure the border, cut spending, and put Americans first.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “border package is not necessary since President Trump has secured the border.”
FACT: We must ensure that the invasion we witnessed as a nation under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never happens again. The One Big Beautiful Bill’s historic investment in our border security ensures we permanently secure our border and protect our homeland by finishing the border wall, hiring 10,000 new ICE officers, and funding efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl.
Oldsters just can’t comprehend the world, and ca is moving on to energy from the sun.
Funny, because the oil, coal, nat gas came from the sun originally.
If all the sun’s energy coming to the earth for free was converted to electricity thru solar, wind, the world would have all the electricity it needs.
The oldsters are invested in the old fossil fuel regime the fossil fuel corporations want you to stay with them despite the cause of the severe weather wrecking many part of the world including the US.
The storms this past month is costing the ins cos billions, lives lost, all so that the fossil fuel lobby can keep the same old same old.
The $8 gas propaganda is just that.
There are electric cars available now that have 300 mile range, and priced at under $25,000.
If you live in a rural area you can power your car, truck with solar, and recoup the cost in less than the life of the electric car, power your home, all for much less.
Ca was going in this direction, with Newsom, and the Dem legislature, but the oil gas lobby paying them campaign $ have had them water down this sensible cheaper future.
This is the power of $, which corrupts us all, and affects our finances, health, and the future.
Ca needs to use the free energy it receives every day in all the ways it comes to us free.
We all love solar but your arguments are complete BS and you know it. The working poor can’t afford new cars and especially not a new Tesla. California has the highest poverty rate. The most unaffordable housing in the continental US. The highest gas prices as well. The highest gas prices hurt and punish those who are working and struggling to make life work. Many have to commute more miles just to be able to find housing.
You are an old person pretending to be young. We have waaaaaay worse names for you than ‘oldsters’.
It’s so amazing that the youngsters who know everything, from years of their hard work of trying to get out of work, are just so brilliant. Nothing like having a 26 year old child still leeching off his parents because life isn’t fair and he thinks socialism is the answer thinking he can live off of someone else’s hardworking.
I’m sure your 12 years of education will help mankind thrive in to the future and your
TikToc videos will make you billions of dollars.
Now go take a nap, play your video games and STFU
Life must be scary when you know you’re only a slip away from the nursing home, huh? Getting beaten by a Dominican orderly in your urine soaked pajamas, eating cold oatmeal, wondering why your kids don’t come visit you.
Newsom and the bought legislature is allowing the CAPUC to tear up net metering contracts, and roof top solar credits allowing the utilities to lie that solar costs all consumers when all accurate accounting shows solar saves for consumers and consumers.
Sad how we see the damaging effect lobbying $ has on Ca, and our Congress, we lose representative government to kleptocracy.
PG&E bought Newsom with their $1million recall campaign contribution.
Gas is $3.09 here
The electric car produce more ewaste and need more raw materials from earth to make. Not to mention the battery is not recycled able. It just gonna be sent to a third world country or it will be in a toxic bin and push down in the desert for later generation to solve our problems.
We don’t believe a word Donald J Trump says…. His credibility is zero
If I remember Joe couldn’t remember what he even said, that sure worked out great. Teaming up with him was our borders czar, Heels High Harris, a CA prostitute brought to us by a SF Mayor’s schlong. How’d that work for the Democrats?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOHOHOHEHEHEHE
Your pick in politicians have brought the left its lowest approval rating in its history and millions of your smarter voters fled to the Right because of all the LIES and corruption.
Posted anti e cars BS.
Over all compared to fossil fueled cars, trucks, e vehicles use way less materials, and produce less CO2 in their manufacture, let alone after when charged by solar, wind, have no carbon footprint.
The batteries are still used, when used in many applications, after they were taken out of vehicles.
The batteries also are recycled, most ,materials are recycled.
The new generation batteries are from less rare materials, such as sodium- salt.
Fox got anti e vehicles in some noggins, typical.
The oil lobby ads on the tee vee now an example of the old fossil fuel lobby BS.
America was built on “CHOICE”, when anyone is required to buy or own one type of “anything” then that is teetering on Communism! You want a EV, buy it, you want a gas powered vehicle, or any thing fuel, buy it, to be forced to the point where citizens are after each others “throats” is ridiculous, you want M+Ms, and Joe wants a Snickers, buy it, why does everything in this world of ours have to end in people hating each other?
^^^Agreed!!! I hate YOU^^^
Newsom sued fox for 787 million today . We love it
^This^
Governor newscum lies through his teeth !!!! He’s an egotistical pompous ass who is self consumed !!! His favorite theme is, “Don’t do as I do, do as I say” !!! Let’s take for instance his behavior during the start of COVID where he ordered the citizens of California to shelter in place but yet, he and his cronies had a party at a lavish expensive restaurant unprotected as well as being in close proximity to others unmasked.
That’s just to start !!!! If that’s not a dictator what is ???? He has driven the state of California down the tubes. He can’t even control the state of California.
Our homeless population is out of control, California gas taxes are among the highest in the country and he blames others for his stupidity and screw ups.
What kind of governor is he ????
Meanwhile the republicans in the Senate are trying to add $3.3 trillion to the national debt, all to give a tax break to the obscenely wealthy. Hope you don’t know anyone who needs Medicaid, because they are cutting that too and this will also cause our rural hospitals to close. Seems bad.
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