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Prices at the pump in California are nearing $6 per gallon as refinery issues persist.
The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in California hovered around $5.79 on Thursday, up 29 cents from a week ago and 54 cents from last month, according to data from AAA.
In some areas, costs are surging beyond the $6 mark, like in Long Beach, where prices are sitting at $6.06 a gallon. That's up 70 cents over the past month. Alpine County, on the state border with Nevada, is seeing the average price of gas nearing $7 per gallon, according to AAA data.
Lipow Oil Associates President Andy Lipow blamed the uptick on refinery outages.
"There have been a series of them starting with Hurricane Hilary, which caused some power outages, followed by problems at Chevron refineries" in the Bay Area and Los Angeles and a few other locations, Lipow told FOX Business.