This semester, students at Bakersfield College say that they are having trouble keeping their gas tanks full.
Danny Chavez, 20, lives in Tulare County and attends BC. “I drive a GMC Sierra, and it’s tapping me for $200 a week to fill it up,” said Chavez.
Chavez says he buys his gas in Tulare, where the gas prices are approximately $3.50 per gallon. Students don’t agree with how much gas is costing them to go back and forth to work.
There are students who are not as disgruntled.
BC student Gurpreet Dosanjh, who travels from Arvin to BC, said, “It’s not that bad for me because my car doesn’t burn that much gas.”
She said that in Arvin, the prices are at $3.39 a gallon. It costs her about $45 a week to fill up.
Since gas prices are so high, some students opt for carpooling.
Valentine Gomez and Diego Gutierrez carpool from Wasco and get their gas from Bakersfield.
“We carpool, and it usually costs us about $70 a week to fill up my F150,” said Gomez.
Students said that the high price of gas is making it harder to spend money on their regular bills. This doesn’t make them happy.