If I’m Exxon, I’m pulling out of that Marxist hellhole and let them drive electric cars from here on out in Utopia.
CALIF wants ANOTHER 50 Cents in gas tax, also.
Chevron pulling out of California would be the death knell. Chevron is 27% of the gasoline market and has 2 major refineries in California. Even giving notice that they might be considering shutting them down would send the California market into a tailspin.
What CA is doing with fuel has sealed its fate in my book. Up to now my girlfriend and I had decided to stay here because of her state job/retirement. Because of the upcoming CARB gas tax increases I finally told her i am definitely leaving after this summer. My daughter graduates HS in 2 days and after this summer I am finally florida bound!
My pet peeve for anyone who writes for a living: learn the difference between ‘its’ and ‘it’s.’ No excuses. (Hint: the one with the apostrophe is a contraction, not a possessive.)
I will repeat this story over and over because it makes me angry: We switched our business from gas to electric generators two years ago. This state produces so much solar energy that during the day there is an excess - they have to dump it off. Peak hours are from 4 pm to 9 pm. We don’t use energy during those hours. Out of nowhere the utilities commission decided to charge me a “surcharge” when I turn on one of the generators. What was a $400 bill - and still is a $400 bill - has a $1600 “spike usage surcharge” because we have to run these generators for a few hours a month.
Same amount of energy we had been using for years. But because it isn’t steady use, they gouge us for drawing a lot for short bursts during random occurrences. Again, the total amount of KwH used has been steady month over month on average but when I kick on the 480 Amp generator they kick me in the rucksack. And in a way I get it - use more pay more; and they planned on dumping the extra electricity. But the other side of that coin is that the electricity is basically free to them. They literally dump it off during the day because there is so much more solar generation during the day than the state actually uses.
I am thinking I should make some youtube videos - go visit Edison, go visit the County Supervisor, go visit my Congressman etc. I am “doing what they said I should do”, got off carbon, and they cream me for it. If I went back to gas it would pay for itself in under 2 years at this rate.
Failure is their superpower.
EVery time they do something destructive, the resulting dysfunction and chaos and failure becomes grounds for even more laws, interventions and regulations.
“this new law creates the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, a dedicated state independent watchdog”
Wonderful - another money pit bureaucracy!
Rules for thee but not for me.
Water, fuel, electricity, gas.....you name it. They are simultaneously wasting it, overregulating it, overtaxing it and apportioning it in such an insane manner it’s almost funny.
My guess is that Newsome and his ilk are just planning on the “California is too big to fail” gambit and let the other states bail it out.
Sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged.
California state government getting more and more Communist every day.
I understand that Kalifornia is the CIA’s political test state and the political class is owned and controlled by the CIA via the Getty family. The CIA also owns and controls Google.
I paid $2.58 a gallon for Regular in Charlotte, NC last week.