tucker: how high and fuel prices go? well, we will find out. gasoline prices set a new record this weekend. reporter for fox los angeles and we are happy to have her tonight. good evening, everybody. you know, even for the record high right now in l.a. county, which is $6.17 a gallon, check this out. this is we are talking over $8 an hour. if you re looking at diesel, we looking at over $9 an hour and this is one of two gas stations in the area. tourists in the progress from florida who were just visiting and had no idea what they re going into, check this out. $140! to fill up my van! that s [bleep] crazy. crazy, but not unexpected. at over $8 a gallon, that s at the chevron off alameda in
downtown l.a. i didn t want to come to the station but i kind of ran out of gas so i thought i had to had to. these prices are way higher than the going average of $6.17 in l.a. county. when we tried to ask why, we were asked to leave. but other than running out of gas, why would anyone pay is kind of money? wherefrom porter, we are here on vacation. okay. this is [bleep] i printed it out, posted on social media, this is crazy. the state attorney general, we reached out to them, they are saying they are looking into this, but honestly, there s nothing they can do unless they declare a state of emergency and i guess $8 isn t a state of emergency yet. live in los angeles, back to you, tucker buried tucker: looks like one to me. thanks so much for that. things are going so poorly for the white house that even nbc news can no longer ignore it. vote for biden! he s an adult!
but some of it is just out of our control. some airlines are slashing schedules to avoid disripgss like these. but that could mean vacationers have fewer and pricier options. i m really worried that the problems we re seeing in the u.s. and abroad are going to cause some people who were thinking about flying for their summer vacations to say, you know, we ll not take a trip. the national average for a gallon of regular now a whopping $4.62. even higher in some places like california, $6.17. and overall, more than $1.57 higher than last year. fuel impacting summer rec regation of all kinds, whether on the the road or on the water. we re going to stay much closer to shore, as opposed to