Gasoline-Starved California Is Turning to Fuel From the Bahamas

Yahoo Finance ^ | Updated Mon, February 16, 2026 at 4:39 AM EST 4 min read 3k In this article: | Will Kubzansky and Lucia Kassai

[kvanbrunt2]

(Bloomberg) — US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices.

Shipments on the circuitous route are increasing. California imported more gasoline in November than ever before, with more than 40% coming from the Bahamas.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; commerce; crackifornia; energy; gasolineproduction; import; jonesact; tankers; trade

[kvanbrunt2]

feel good article of the day

[Sacajaweau]

Importing it makes no sense.

[MinorityRepublican]

So they have a refinery in the Bahamas?

[Tell It Right]

Reading the article, the Jones Act forbids the use of non-American ships to transport goods from one American port to another. Hence, the transportation of east-cost refined gas to the Bahamas, then from the Bahamas to California. So east cost refineries are mixing the special blend for California’s requirements.

[Libloather]

Rum doesn’t fill the Saturn, mon.

[SPDSHDW]

CA doesn’t have a choice, when they mandate specific blends be sold in the state.

If a refinery in another country wants to rape CA because only they will make the blend, since the others have left the state, then that’s how it’s going to be until the CA ARB is banned by federal law and any existing edicts it has created be destroyed and prohibited by said law.

[from occupied ga]

If you’ve ever filled up your boat in the Bahamas you know the meaning of the term “rip off”

[xp38]

Indeed and transporting it like this adds unnecessary fuel usage. Once again enviro laws end up hurting the environment. When the dims name a piece of legislation the end result is the opposite.

[jacknhoo]

Apparently it is gasoline when it is shipped to the Bahamas.

[Chgogal]

And yet, the Dummycrats still vote Democrat no matter the pain they are delivered.

[libertylover]

On average, the closures could raise the cost of gasoline for consumers by between 5 and 15 cents a gallon,

Seems low, way low.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Isn’t the stated goal of California to eliminate all fossil fuels?
This is what that would look like. Less and less at increasingly higher prices until there is no fuel.

[beethovenfan]

Another problem Newsom doesn’t give a crap about.

[Ex-Con777]

Maybe not. Phillips and Valero shut down their California blend refineries in California due to costs and over regulation.

This does not give me the sads

EC

[Mark]

NO one saw this coming!!!(/S)

[Tench_Coxe]

Waiting for the headline is:

"Food-Starved California Is Turning to Food From (enter foreign country here)"

Ironic the original home of Chevron has to import gas.

[A strike]

Queue Nelson: " Ha, Ha"

[from occupied ga]

When the dims name a piece of legislation the end result is the opposite.

By intent.

[WKUHilltopper]

What a parade of dumbasses. Maybe unicorns will crap out some gas for them? Or has Ca run them out too?

[Paladin2]

Commiefornia needs to just ban all Petro sales.

It would become a true utopia....