© Ivan Hernandez/Avalon Marine Dock
For the past two weeks, gas prices on Catalina Island have been an average of $7 a gallon.
Stacy Dizon, who works at the Santa Catalina Island Co.-owned gas station on Pebbly Road, tells CBSLA that a gallon of regular unleaded on Saturday is $7.03.
The gas station is one of two service stations catering to the island and nearby, Avalon.
About 1.5 miles away, Ivan Hernandez at the city-owned Avalon Marine Dock says the price of regular unleaded is $6.90 a gallon, down 10 cents from Friday.
While some residents may be feeling the pinch, many aren't complaining.
"There's not a lot to complain about when we're living on an island," said Catherine Rogers, a server at Original Jack's Country Kitchen.
Rogers has lived in Avalon for 33 years and tells CBSLA that she doesn't hear a lot of complaints about gas prices since many residents walk and those who drive use golf carts to get around, many of which are electric.
On average, Rogers says, those who drive golf carts fill up about once a month.
Tony Gomez, who works at La Paloma, has lived on the island for 15 years. He tells CBSLA that as of last week, the price of a gallon of regular unleaded was $7.10.
As Gomez explains, residents on Catalina Island pay on average about $2 more for gas as compared to prices on the mainland.
As for the cause of the spike in gas prices, residents say they expect prices to be higher since the fuel is barged in.
The Auto Club of Southern California has not yet returned our call to provide a comment.
Catalina Island is tiny. The need for a car is minimal and there are very few. All refined distillates have to be shipped in. In the meantime diesel in France is around US$8.00 per gallon.
I just scanned the roads of Catalina with Google mapper. Probably not more than six vehicles in operation, on the entire island, at the time the photos were shot.
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