[Carry_Okie]

This is only a fraction of how they stick us. The biggie is energy, and it's a crooked racket in California.

I knew that we were getting ripped off, who was doing it, and why when I wrote that article in 2003, but I did not know the degree quantitatively. In 2010 when our family took the obligatory transnational vacation by car it was easy to see what gasoline cost and how far it would take us. What surprised me was that octane ratings were no indication of mileage. There is so much ethanol in California gas that, by the time one calculates the total cost per mile, we were paying DOUBLE what they were in Texas.

[jcon40]

The trick to living in California is to not produce anything.