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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：It’s not just drivers who hate high gas prices. So do gas station owners
📅 发布时间：Updated May 11, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
📝 英文原文：
Chris Bambury’s family has been selling gas in Sonoma Valley, California, for more than 100 years, but never at prices like this.The price at his two stations was $6.29 for a gallon of regular gas last week, which is actually cheap for his part of California — AAA put the average price in his county at $6.36.Gas station owners are struggling with rising gas prices just as much as their customers. The overwhelming majority of gas stations are small businesses — not the big oil companies whose brands they sell — and the rise in the wholesale gas price they pay has cut deeply into their already thin profit margins.Wholesale gas prices aren’t the only rising cost putting the squeeze on station owners. Credit card fees and delivery charges for fuel are both higher than earlier this year. Labor costs are still up from the last gas spike in 2022.Bambury’s great-grandfather, August Bonneau, started selling gas back in 1922, before there were even paved roads in his part of California. Bambury started in the family business as a teenager doing entry-level jobs — such as pumping gas and cleaning bathrooms. Today, he has 37 employees between the two stores and a third location that doesn’t sell gas.However, to remember a time when gas was a lot cheaper, Bambury only has to think back to before the war in Iran started in late February. He was selling gas for $4.79.“We don’t want to move up (prices too fast) and drive customers away,” he said. “We always prefer prices to be lower. The market thrives better. Our customers are happier.”But for the most part, customers haven’t blamed him or his staff for the prices.“They hear all about the war and the Strait of Hormuz,” he said.But as much as he wants to keep prices low, Bambury needs to make at least a profit on gas sales.“We can’t survive losing on fuel (sales),” he said.Across the country, another gas station owner told CNN he is considering shutting down his fuel sales.Gas station owner Harry Singh said he might have to stop se
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
Chris Bambury 的家人在加利福尼亚州索诺玛谷销售天然气已有 100 多年，但从未以这样的价格出售。上周，他的两个加油站普通汽油的价格为每加仑 6.29 美元，这对于他所在的加利福尼亚州来说实际上很便宜 - AAA 认为他所在县的平均价格为 6.36 美元。加油站老板和他们的顾客一样，都在为不断上涨的汽油价格而苦苦挣扎。绝大多数加油站都是小型企业，而不是那些胸罩大的石油公司。
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