Why is CA gas so pricy? Here’s a hint: It starts with a “T” and ends with “axes”
Never mind their outrage increase in gas tax in 2017
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article147437054.html
Still, gas has dipped below $3 in the last month
Gas prices only rising in recent years??
I swear I heard they finally had $3 gas again very recently in Ca...
I filled up today and thanks to Kroger’s rewards with 60 cents a gallon off...
I got 35 gallons at $1.75 a gallon
They’ll be running out of toilet paper and eating the animals in the San Diego Zoo, soon enough.
Cost of doing business in libtard cali.
Cheap fuel in Texas ......... must be a Commiepornia thang .
1. state of Californication levies highest taxes imaginable on gasoline
2. state of Californication requires a special formulation of gasoline, which restricts most sales to the handful of mostly-old refineries still operative in the state
....it is cost prohibitive for oil companies to brew the special formula at distant out of state refineries to ship it long distances into CAL, and.....what gas they do so ship must be sold at high prices to recapture the shipping costs
3. state of Californication imposes all sorts of operating restrictions and regulations on its remaining few refineries, which only adds to the costs of production
that have to be recouped at the pump
4. because the state of Californication has effectively prohibited competition in supply, you KNOW what that does to the retail price point (Econ 1A...artificially restrict supply and you get higher and higher prices for the same level of demand)
5. nobody in his right mind would consider for even one second increasing supply by investing in, building any new refineries, which are of course extremely expensive to both build and operate anyway.... but investing any significant capital in such an anti-business, high tax, and restrictive regulation state.... would be NUTS
gas at most urban stations is near or at, occasionally over $4/gallon in the late-great state of Californication, higher for premium grade
Source:
Kalifornia politicians going Venezuela on them!
Funniest part of this story is how the dumbasses of California believe that their “elected” dumbasses actually want an investigation! “Because we care” hahahahahahahahahaha
The state gets pretty upset when someone besides them tacks on fees on gasoline. When they do it, it’s a righteous move of course.
Sounds like they think a crime may have been committed. I can think of one the state perpetrated on the public.
Of course, it was old as a necessity, and my brain dead fellow Californian’s voted for it.
How can you explain people this absolutely stupid?
Sure, hike the gas tax an extra cent to pay for the investigation and let's find out.
More hilarity from the land of fruits and nuts.
One of the highest gas taxes in the country, carbon taxes, special formula so CA is cut off from the rest of the national gas market, all imposed by Democrats and now they are complaining of the results of their own policies.
I bet gas is cheaper in Hawaii.
What would happen if nobody was willing to refine it for them? Can the Gov just declare it an emergency and let any type of gas in? If so, why have the law?
From looking at the charts of gas prices in California versus the national average, it appears something around three months ago kicked in another 30 cents premium.
Funny - the lawmakers who made the tax laws that make it so expensive demand an investigation of themselves....can’t make this crap up.
Biloxi area has Premium for under $2.50 ... was under $2.30 a few weeks ago but crude keeps creeping up.