California Gas Station With $9.99 Diesel Exemplifies Fuel Crisis

By Will Kubzansky

Sep 12, 2026 (Bloomberg) –At a fuel station in San Diego where diesel is retailing for $9.99 a gallon, Californians can take solace in at least this: in theory, prices can’t get worse.

An employee reached by phone at the Shell station in the city’s Serra Mesa neighborhood confirmed the eye-watering price as of Friday and said the fuel was still available. While the cost could at some point actually exceed $9.99, on most electronic gas station marquees prices can’t go higher because they’re constrained by three digits.

That station is an outlier compared to the wider