California’s refining capabilities are over 2 million barrels a day, their entire production is below 600 thousand BPD. Where do you think the other 1.5 mil is coming from? You have oil coming in from the east by pipeline and from Canada by rail and from foreign countries by sea. California is a net importer of oil.
So those tankers are all a figment of my imagination?
What needs to happen is that California’s one state law that requires specially formulated gasoline be repealed so that the citizens are not held hostage to the refiners within the state. If they had any real competition, our gas prices would fall into line with the rest of the country.