a gas station in l.a. paul, how are people reacting to these very high gas prices in california? reporter: they re reacting with shock and they re in agony. if you look behind me, this gas station is considered a discount at $6.09 a gallon. as you articulated, here in california the average now, $6.42. what drives all of this, california has an extremely high gas tax at 51 cents per gallon. these taxes used to improve roads and infrastructure and whatnot. for these vendors we re talking to today, they re absolutely getting jackhammered by these prices. a family rental business, party rental business, busy time of the year, weddings, graduations, father s day around the corner, what takerhey re doing now is o filling up a partial tank at a time. it went up a dollar in a week. we only filled a quarter tank and it will probably last us maybe for the rest of the day. if not, we ll have to fill up later on today again, another 60. reporter: so if you do the math, that s abou
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