Posted on 11/15/2021 9:51:20 AM PST by Red Badger
On Sunday, California gas prices rose to a record-setting high average of $4.676 per gallon for regular gasoline, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). The previous record average price of $4.671 was set in October 2012.
The Golden State is America’s largest state by population and currently has the highest gas prices in the country even as the national average dropped slightly to $3.413.
One reason for the increase, AAA said, is the state’s reduced refinery production capacity due to heavy rainstorms in northern California which then trickled down the supply chain, impacting southern California similar to what happened in Louisiana during Hurricane Ida last August.
“It’s a bit of a supply crunch we have right now, there’s nothing major, until the refineries in Northern California can get back up to full production capacity,” said Jeffrey Spring, Corporate Communications Manager of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Doug Shupe, a spokesperson for AAA, said that although Californians are used to paying more for gas, the price has been much higher lately due to higher crude oil prices and pent-up demand from the pandemic. “Typically we see prices at the pump fall off after Labor Day because people have completed their summer vacations. Kids are back in school,” Shupe said. “But this year people are still traveling. There’s still that demand for fuel to get to where people want to go.”
Gas prices have increased steadily throughout 2021 as fuel demand grows around the world, however, suppliers like OPEC have been unable — or unwilling — to produce more oil while Biden shuts down pipelines at home. U.S. oil prices have climbed over 65% this year while U.S. oil production is around 14% below the levels of 2019 and at the end of the Trump administration before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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California eh? Too bad it’s not 40 dollars a gallon.
The CA refinery regulations are probably so thick that they would cause a major earthquake if placed on any of those oil wells.
;-)
beautiful place, packed with retards
“$3.19 ga in Ohio, it was $1.89 under Trump”
...about the same in VA but our newly elected all red executive branch says they’ll eliminate the state tax for gas.
I used to live there many many years ago...back when Orange County still had miles and miles of orange groves.
When I lived there they had more so cowboys and gals than Tx, we all had dirt bikes and guns
GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA, FRiends...
Right. It was the rain.
Every year they cook up some bs story like that to shut down the refinery’s in Benicia.
The price started rocketing up as soon as Brandon killed the pipeline and fracking operations.
The oil masters are leveraging that with their more time honored scams to squeeze a pretty penny out.
It’s win-win for them:
- They make tons of $$$
- Brandon takes the blame
Can’t do any better.
Aweeee isn’t that too bad.... nope glad to see it hit them and hit them hard. Although the Hollywood elite don’t feel the pinch, it’s the average Joe living outside the land of Oz that suffer.
Just wait until Xiden ships the last of our reserve barrels to China and see what the cost is across the US.
Libtards love being ripped off and paying more than they have to 🤪
Baloney.
It’s the state government that is responsible for the cost of living there. Nothing else.
California’s like a third world hellhole..
California has more ‘homeless’ too - and wider wage disparities, and massive crime and it’s a hellhole.
When the country peacefully divides California can be their capital city... it would be soooooooo fitting.
You’re being kinda hard on third world hellholes. ;^)
Nearly every European Union country has had $3 liter plus petrol for years on top of 20%+ VAT taxes in addition to yearly or monthly Vignette taxes and country specific Vignette taxes when you cross in to a new country to use their roads. So Europe does just fine with $9 plus per gallon petrol and 20+% VAT taxes. Its not the end of the world stop hyperventilating. Europe has plenty of wealthy people as does China another country with high taxes and petrol prices. China has more millionaires is American dollars than does America and they pay out the nose in taxes. Successful people find a way, poor’s will be poors it’s not the system that fails them it is themselves.
https://taxfoundation.org/value-added-tax-2021-vat-rates-in-europe/
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