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California Gas Prices Could Surge to $10 a Gallon, Lawmaker Warns

California could see gas prices spike as high as $10 per gallon due to multiple refinery shutdowns and U.S. involvement in the Middle East, a state lawmaker is warning.

“I believe we could very easily be around $10 gas. … It’s about to get worse if we don’t do anything about it,” Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, said in an interview with the Daily Signal. 

“We have become extremely reliant on foreign imports. The last tanker from the Middle East that left the Strait of Hormuz arrived about 10 days ago. Now we aren’t getting anything from some of these foreign markets.”

Critics of the war with Iran argue that the GOP did not take gas prices into consideration when assessing the conflict. California Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to it as “Trump’s Iran war” and blamed the president for higher prices.

“Trump’s Iran war is costing Americans $1.5 billion more at the pump this week alone, and what are........

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