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More to the point, there is also a refinery labor strike that is keeping the price of gasoline artificially high. When this strike ends, gas prices in California and other absurdly high retail price states will finally start to decline, but in California, thanks the to state cap and trade, the prices will probably never fall below $3 a gallon ever again.

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When this strike ends

Tenatively, it has. Local unions will have to vote on accepting the contracts.

End of refinery strike in sight; gas prices may fall
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-usw-shell-contract-20150312-story.html
March 12, 2015

The United Steelworkers reached a tentative contract with Shell Oil Co. on Thursday after more than a month of contentious talks and strikes, union officials said.

The union said it had settled on a new four-year pact with Shell, the lead negotiator for the oil industry, and the U.S. subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands. The deal was reached in Houston.

The previous contract, which covered 30,000 refinery workers nationwide, expired at the end of January. On Feb. 1, the union called for work stoppages, which at last count included 6,500 workers at 15 facilities.