Posted on 11/03/2024 10:43:45 AM PST by artichokegrower
California motorists buy and consume a billion gallons of gasoline each month and are very sensitive about pump prices, which are markedly higher than those in other states. Naturally, they are a political football.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly characterized refiners as price gougers, even though most of the differences are caused by taxes, fees and regulatory mandates. Recently, he persuaded the Legislature to pass a watered-down version of his proposal requiring refiners to maintain higher reserves to avoid price spikes.
However the gasoline situation is far more complicated than Newsom’s approach, and California may be facing a period of volatility on both supply and price as it attempts to wean itself from combustion-powered transportation, its largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
CARB now intends to act on the policy three days after Election Day, without offering any estimate of consumer costs — a potential signal that those costs will be hefty.
The working folks of California are once getting screwed over.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will Euthanasia California to save it ,they better hope he does himself first
Every time an Oil/Coal/Gas company gets sued for “Climate Change” they should immediately stop selling their product in that local. One election cycle will be all it takes to come back.
Where’s that Gif with thousands of people jumping down a hole , it’s California
Can hardly wait for the E trucks at Donner pass I-80 in the winter. Or Kingvale.....🌨
Still, even with the drop in costs for EV battery packs, the cost to replace a battery pack could range from around $7,000 to nearly $30,000.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/ev-battery-replacement-cost
Gas was $2.69 at WalMart yesterday near Bullhead City, and $4.89 here in Los Angeles, but AvGas is only $6.39 in Los Angeles.
Too bad, so sad.
AvGas is cheap because they’ve all but killed GA for the average guy.
California is not going to "wean itself from combustion-powered transportation."
Unless they just shut down the entire State.
Anyone care to explain what atoms they plan to combust, if not carbon?
“It’s a win-win,” executive officer Steven Cliff insisted.
Good to know that public servant Steven Cliff we be able to buy gas
Name Job title Regular pay Overtime pay Other pay Total pay Benefits Total pay &
benefits
Steven S Cliff Executive Officer, California Air Resource Board
State of California, 2023 $325,724.47
Mercury News aka Mercury Bullshit.
California aka Califubar
Not long ago an acquaintance of mine from CA who has a small, but real nice car and motorcycle collection, moved them all out of CA to an Arizona storage facility. He’s still in CA until he can sell his failing business.
CA use to be the car/motorcycle Mecca of the world...That’s all but ended.
“…are very sensitive about pump prices…”
Uh, not so much, apparently. Where I live, people would have spent their last dollars on gas burning down the state capitol if gas prices came even close to hitting California’s outrageous levels.
Before long, you won’t be able to buy gasoline in California at ANY price. That date isn’t far off.
A democrat government cares nothing about people just the large amounts of money they can steal from them
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