I grasp the issues. What don’t you grasp about causation? Answer the question: Why are refiners/distributors able to make higher margins, price gouge, be unfair to the Kaliphorna Konsumer more sonthan any other state?
Give me your solution to the unfairness you so righteously rail about. What is you wish to see done? Are you hoping the greedy profiteers will become charitable and lower their margins?
I would assume that any company this astute on profit gouging is a hugely profitable enterprise that has a soaring stock prixe. They must just be killing it with Kali so profitable. Must be a dozen companies fighting to get in.
Kali should be kissing the feet of any company willing to operate a refinery or gas station.
I’m not going to provide an answer to your question, because it is off topic.
So far you can’t grasp that. Look, you’ve failed miserably at trying to address this issue.
This is a business decision to screw the public.
Thus the business is the focus and not the state.
The state didn’t decide to only pass off 14 cents of 60 to the public. The business did.