Posted on 12/20/2025 10:35:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Supply and demand. If there’s little supply and demand remains constant, things cost more. If there’s plenty of supply and demand remains constant or declines, they cost less.
Unfortunately for Californians, the basic law of supply and demand doesn’t well fit with Democrat ideology. Democrats don’t bother to live in the real world. They create their own to conform to their self-imagined intellectual and moral superiority.
Their imaginary utopia can’t compete with reality, which inevitably comes crashing down on their heads. In this case, reality is gas prices, which are credibly predicted to reach $10 a gallon while elsewhere in the nation, they’re declining to the $2.50 range.
California’s gas is already, in some areas, around $7.00 per gallon. Roughly $1.50 of that is taxes, and about 38 cents of that funds the high-speed rail to nowhere.
Actually, it just goes into that bottomless money pit for a railroad that’s far behind schedule, way over budget and which isn’t going to get any more federal funding in a state with a horrific budget deficit with no way to make it up. Have I mentioned not a single track has been laid?
CA gas prices are also so high because California mandates a special blend of gas supposedly better for the environment, which is much more expensive than any other blend sold elsewhere and is produced solely in California. So, what’s going to add $3.00+ to $7.00 a gallon gas?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You get what you vote for.
FUNDING THE HIGH SPEED RAIL IS NOW A FRAUD-—
DIDN’T TRUMP STOP IT?????
Who says $10?
I’m saying California is just a few glitches away from $20 or more.
1. Climate change fanatics.
2. Marxists.
3. Cloward and Piven.
4. China (for California of course, not for China).
5. Texans, Oklahomans, and Floridians (again for California of course, for their own states they'd be OK with $2 per gallon).
Hard to believe Ronald Reagan was once the Governor of California. Such a beautiful star, it has become essentially Communist. Elections are a joke with little hope of ever becoming honest now.It tried to save itself with prop. 187 but a Federal Carter Judge merely pushed the results of that election off the table
“ DIDN’T TRUMP STOP IT?????”
He stopped federal dollars from going to the project.
Trump stopped the federal funding. If California wants to collect their state tax dollars in a pit and light the money on fire, there isn't much the rest of the country can do other than watch it burn.
Oil companies like Chevron and Valero are leaving the state. Can’t say I blame them.
Next up. Homeowner insurance companies. Let’s see how Newsomites like paying $10,000 annually for coverage.
They want to be like Europe - including the bad parts.
Supply and demand. If there’s little supply and demand remains constant, things cost more.
Their king, Jo Pedo imported 20 million new illegal alien consumers who are consuming with our taxpayer dollars when he wasn't falling up the stairs to Air Force One. Wonder why everything cost more, THERE'S YOUR ANSWER, IDIOTS!!!
Sadly, this all trickles out from California to the rest of the country. We *all* are paying for the nonsense California's politicians are doing to that state. And when liberal Californians leave the state for greener pastures (Washington, Oregon, Colorado being examples), they transform the rest places they settle in.
Hell, we're in a a relative conservative area of Central Texas, or at least it was when we moved here seven years ago. By slowly, our city is changing, and not for the better. Our city major for the past several years came from the Berkeley area. They have organized the women in this city to run for office. What was once more male than female for our representation is now overwhelmingly female. All in less than five years time.
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,,, don’t lay any rail tracks, switch to rickshaws - job creation for Democrats is on the horizon.
You get what you vote for.- But the libs will blame Trump.
Plus California may shut down 400+ gas stations Jan 1 that haven’t replaced their single-walled storage tanks.
This high-speed rail system, like every commuter rail system, is designed solely to spread crime and ghettoism evenly across the state...
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