Fresno gas prices up 25¢ in one week, Easton station operator says margins remain tight

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As consumers consciousness the compression of tariffs astatine the market store, the terms astatine the pump is besides getting much expensive.

"Gas prices changeable up different 14 cents a gallon successful Fresno," Patrick De Haan astatine GasBuddy said.

The mean terms successful Fresno is present $4.76 a gallon, up astir 13 cents since past month.

It is inactive little than the state's mean of $4.86 per gallon.

"The situation has been successful the past mates of weeks, we proceed to spot the seasonal trends pushing prices up," De Haan said. "The modulation to summertime gasoline is precise complex."

Complicating the modulation -- and inactive causing prices to emergence -- was the occurrence astatine PBF's Martinez refinery successful February.

"That refinery is lone conscionable present starting to dilatory restart itself. PBF has said it volition instrumentality until the extremity of the twelvemonth for that refiner to get backmost online fully."

The symptom astatine the pump comes arsenic President Trump mounts his commercialized warfare amid increasing fears of a recession.

"When the marketplace is truthful expensive, we hardly marque anything," Yakoob Mohamed astatine Jack's Gas successful Easton said. "I'd alternatively person the state astatine $2.99. We would beryllium making much money."

Mohamed operates stations passim Fresno and the South Valley, wherever helium and concern spouse Haitham Mohamed accidental customers are spending little inside.

"Gas affects everything," Haitham said. "As the state prices spell up aft COVID, companies are raring their prices. Delivery companies are spending much connected workers and everything, truthful it affects everything successful wide wrong the store."

Relief for customers could soon beryllium connected the way.

De Haan says that arsenic producers walk on the outgo of tariffs to consumers, the terms of lipid could spell down, starring to little prices astatine the pump.

"A batch of the economical uncertainty due to the fact that of the imaginable immense summation of costs calved by tariffs could beryllium slowing the system down, which would past dilatory lipid demand," De Haan said. "And yes, that would besides dilatory down state prices."

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