Like the say, “You can’t make this crap up.”
A dirty secret that the rats in Sacramento never tell us is there is a state sales tax on the gasoline.
The higher the per gallon cost is, more state sales tax is brought in. The counties and cities get a share, so they never bring up this reality.
Gee I thought the Libs did not want oil and natural gas, you know all electric from wind and solar. So what’s the problem! You are getting what you wanted Libs!
They dont need an investigation. Just a mirror.
Take a look at the political leadership in CA. Then ponder this: There is no linguistic expression of cause and effect in Spanish.
Democrats: “We dindu dat!”
Maybe another gas tax to fund be study of why prices are so high will help. /s
California pols are disingenuous scum who think their voters are complete imbeciles.
Yup, Californians are that stupid, especially the smart ones
The committee that studied this situation (unaccountable price disparity) after a refinery fire in 2015 concluded that they didn’t have the resources to figure it out, so they needed more funding. So now the politicians must have plans to enlarge the committee, increase its funding, and staff it with hangers-on and supplicants. The new committee will also conclude that they just don’t know why.
I’d guess that it’s a research tax by Chevron and Tesoro. Come 2020, they have to reduce the carbon footprint of the gasoline they sell to such a degree that they’re at their wits end on how to do it. I’d guess they’re throwing money at the problem (a problem created by utopian mandates from politicians) in hopes of a solution, but in the end the laws of thermodynamics are only going to be circumvented only by pretense.
Perhaps California should impose gasoline price controls which will ensure tbat Californians will be waiting in long lines for their ration of gas. Better still follow the lead of Venezuela and have the government take over the oil industry and have no gasoline.
This kind of crap from the Democrat legislature is to be expected as Democrats have no respect for the electorate. The typical Democrat legislator figures they can do anything, and just create some spin, some scenario they can pull to divert the blame, because the people are stupid, and will fall for any hare-brained story they concoct. It’s how they have operated for the seventy-two years I’ve been around, and they will continue with the disrespectful attitude as long as they believe we the people are stupid enough to swallow their crap whole.
We could fool them, and NOT accept their BS, but that might be too much to ask.