CA is always more expensive due to taxes and additives and then you throw in an unscheduled or scheduled closure of one of the few refineries and gas prices soar.
Also, because our idiot politicians who don't give a hoot about us but love the lobbyists messed up on Anwar and other opportunities to ween us off foreign oil dependence. Right now because of the Iran thing gas prices are climbing.
I have noticed they are climbing.Its not cheap for Florida.The jobs here don't pay as much as most places but the cost of living is rising.Sad but true.Being its tourist season the prices start climbing.