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Posted on 04/15/2026 9:11:55 AM PDT by AJFavish
California’s gasoline market is entering a period of acute supply shortages directly attributable to prior refinery closures, and the long-term systemic decline in in-state crude oil production which have been further exacerbated by the ongoing war in the Middle East. For California, there is a clear trajectory toward increasing supply deficit conditions through April and a high probability of physical shortages by May accompanied by consumer price increases at the pump.
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Breaking News !
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California falls into the Ocean!
Adiós Muchacho.
Go back a couple years and you'll see articles about the evils of refineries, how dirty and dangerous they are, etc. And how the state needed to move to "clean" Green energy. Witness the result.
Just another Newscom disaster of his own making.
I guess those wind turbines and solar cells aren’t working out so good.
Oh WELL. (As in oil well)
California is now importing a lot of its oil and gasoline in spite of having huge oil and gas reserves. So how does CA get Texas Gulf Coast Oil?
The Jones Act requires shipment between two US ports to be on US flagged ships. But there are 55 US flagged oil tanker ships in the world, but THOUSANDS of foreign flagged tankers. What to do to get around the Jones Act? Simple!
Load the Texas Gulf Coast gasoline on foreign flagged tankers and ship it to the Bahamas where you put in a bit of additive that magically transforms it to a foreign product. Then you ship it back to CA through the Panama Canal on foreign flagged tankers. That’s about 6,000 nautical miles of unneeded travel burning lots of petroleum and polluting the air with heavy Bunker C residual fuel.
Utterly insane! Thanks, Gruesome.
Fortunately for Gov. Newsom, he has an out. He’ll blame California’s gasoline problems on Trump’s conflict with Iran.
Is that view correct?
Of course not.
Will the media and the public buy it?
Of course.
“Will the media and the public buy it?
Of course.”
Only Democrats! The rest of the intelligent
world knows it is BS!
“So how does CA get Texas Gulf Coast Oil?”
Why not truck oil in or build a pipeline from the Permian Basin in west Texas?
Indeed, the intended result.
It goes hand in hand with Obama/the Left's "remaking of America" and its culture. A lot must be demolished before they can do that, but it is clear they are making progress.
The libs used to denounce their critics as "haters, now notice how many well-known libs loudly declare their hatred for Trump and his supporters.
Sure, but they voted for this.
California has long operated as a relative "fuel island" in the U.S. petroleum market, largely isolated from the major East Coast and Midwest pipeline networks that connect Gulf Coast refining hubs (such as those in Houston, Beaumont, and Port Arthur, Texas) to other regions. Gasoline and other refined products from Texas refineries typically move via the Colonial Pipeline system eastward/northward or by other means, but nothing crosses the country westward to California by pipe.
Current Transportation Methods
This isolation contributes to California's higher and more volatile gasoline prices, especially amid recent and planned refinery closures (e.g., Phillips 66's Los Angeles refinery and Valero's Benicia facility), which have increased reliance on imports.
Proposed Pipeline: Western Gateway
In October 2025, Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan announced the Western Gateway Pipeline, a ~1,300-mile refined products system designed to move gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from Texas (and Midwest) origins toward Arizona and California.
The project targets in-service around 2029, following binding open seasons (initial one closed in late 2025 with strong interest; a follow-on for LA-area capacity launched afterward). It has support from industry, federal, and some state officials as a way to bolster West Coast supply reliability amid refinery changes.
A competing or complementary proposal, ONEOK's Sun Belt Connector (from El Paso to Phoenix), also aims at Arizona markets with potential westward implications, targeting mid-2029 startup.
These projects are still in development and face typical hurdles (permitting, final commitments, construction), so they are not yet providing a pipeline route. If built, Western Gateway would mark the first major direct pipeline link for motor fuels into California from eastern refining centers..
Imagine the obstacles the envirokooks are throwing up! Maybe President Trump doesn't want to sweep away those obstacles so CA can stew in its own Climate Justice juices.
$20 per gallon gasoline and diesel coming to CA real soon!
“ So how does CA get Texas Gulf Coast Oil?”
They don’t
“ So how does CA get Texas Gulf Coast Oil?”
They don’t
Note that is not 40% of the gasoline consumed in CA. It is 40% of the gasoline imported to CA. A small fraction — roughly 2–3% on an annual average basis in 2025, with peaks higher in specific months like November — of the gasoline actually burned (consumed) in California came via the Bahamas route.
The Bahamas route (mostly U.S. Gulf Coast product, especially from Texas/Louisiana refineries) made up about 12% of all seaborne gasoline imports for the full year 2025 — more volume than in the previous nine years combined.
I took this picture last week in Santa Barbara while there for work.
Hard for me to feel sorry for CA, as they pointed the gun at their own head and pulled the trigger. On the plus side, you hate the gasoline companies and drove them out of the state thinking that would promote EV cars and clean air. Well, the clean air thing might just happen since you’ll all be walking soon. As to the EV scam, where do you think the electricity for those cars comes from? Hydro, solar, and wind don’t even add up to 35% of the demand, which is where fossil fuels (e.g., coal, natural gas, and oil) come in.
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