by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe

California energy and gas prices are through the roof

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in California Friday June 5, 2026 is $5.95 – nearly $6.00 per gallon! The national average is $4.22.

Two days ago, the national average was $4.26 per gallon of regular gas, and in California it was $5.99 per gallon. A gallon of mid-grade gas in California is $6.20, and a gallon of premium gas is $6.37. The highest price for gas in California is in Mono County at $7.03 per gallon of regular gas.

This isn’t “California Derangement Syndrome” as Governor Gavin Newsom would have you believe, as businesses and billionaires are fleeing the state, as well.

Even billionaires don’t want to spend unnecessarily on taxes, since most of them invented something and built a business.

While California’s governor and Democrat-dominated Legislature have ignored the oil and gas crisis they have inflicted on California, oil experts have been warning that California’s faux “climate crisis” was leading to gas and oil shortages, dramatically increasing gas prices and energy costs, and a national security crisis.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright spoke with Fox News earlier on Friday and discussed how safe, clean and efficient it is to drill offshore, as they arrived in Santa Barbara. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing everything he can to halt any and all offshore drilling off of the coast of California. Fortunately, the drilling off of the Santa Barbara Coast is in federal waters, so the California Governor doesn’t have authority.