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[ikka]

The current market price for the fuel is about $150 to $160 per metric ton.

What is bunker fuel, exactly? Is it like "red dye" diesel? How many gallons does this equate to?

[Neanderthal]

Liberals just don't get economics. This isn't even a symbolic "punish the rich" class warfare thing. It's just plain stupid.

[tubebender]

The managers of the Wally-World Fleet wouldn't like this.

[Consort]

[Lancey Howard]

Most suppliers surveyed by the Press- Telegram believe that additional cost will drive business out of the state

And the business that stays in the state will just have to reach into their wallets and.... Oh, wait-a-minute... Doh....! They'll just pass the extra cost onto the consumers.

LOFL, is there anything more stupid than a California liberal?

[flying Elvis]

it would result in total state and local revenue losses in the range of $22.3 million to $35.5 million

Typical liberal mentality. How can you lose money you do not yet have?

[CPOSharky]

Barry Baldwin, a director of fuel supplier Foss Maritime, put it this way: "Like any reasonable, intelligent people, they'll go where the price is lowest.'

Which affirms the intelligence of the Cali pols.