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If you thought that the LA wildfires exposed just how mismanaged California is, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Russia. China. Venezuela. Iran. More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries.
Could California be next on the list?
Let’s see what do all of those places have in common? Tyrannical regimes. Miserable lives for much of the population. High levels of migration. Radical politics. Sure, California belongs on that list.
California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries, one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the refinery business in the state.
Have a state that hates oil and couldn’t make money selling drugs (literally) run oil refineries. What could go wrong?
Already, two California refineries have ceased producing gasoline to make biodiesel fuel for use in heavy-duty trucks, a cleaner-fuel alternative that enjoys rich state subsidies. More worrisome, the Phillips 66 refinery complex in Wilmington, just outside Los Angeles, plans to close down permanently by year’s end.
That leaves eight major refineries in California capable of producing gasoline. The closure of any one would create serious gasoline supply issues, industry analysts say. But both Chevron and Valero are contemplating permanent refinery closures…
California is known as a “gasoline island” lacking the kind of multistate logistics network through most of the continental U.S. that can help alleviate supply shocks. No pipelines exist to feed gasoline in from other states. Ocean shipments from the refinery-rich Gulf States are restricted by an antiquated federal law known as the Jones Act…
Further complicating matters: the special blends of gasoline required in California. Those required formulations have gone a long way toward reducing air pollution. But they also drive up gasoline prices and raise the risk of shortages, because little such gasoline is produced outside California.
Insurance companies are fleeing California. Refineries are fleeing California. Californians are fleeing California. But there’s enough people in the state that a major energy crisis is entirely plausible.
It’s not hard to find $6 a gallon gas in the state, but that could just be the beginning.
And the Democrat super-majority has lots of plans for getting all the remaining refineries to flee California.
The options list is disparate: Ship in more gasoline from Asia; regulate refineries on the order of electric utilities; cap profit margins; and many more.
The list was due to be transformed into a formal transition plan by Dec. 31, 2024, but six weeks later no plan has been issued. Therefore, it’s not yet clear what the state response will be if another refinery announces a shutdown this year or next.
Tell everyone to buy Teslas. Take over the refineries. It worked so well in Venezuela that what used to be a petro-power can’t even run refineries. But that’s okay. California will hire only transgender ex-cons of color, tax the product as much as possible and then blame the subsequent disaster on global warming.
Excellent coverage. The gasoline high prices are entirely caused by Democrat politicians.
This needs to stop. Texas can only take in so many.
Yeah, I think they’re saying the same thing in Florida.
Same here in NV–Las Vegas & Reno are over run with escapees that didn’t leave their liberal BS behind.
It really is disgusting that left-wing carpetbaggers like that bring the very things they’re fleeing from with them, isn’t it? Leftism really is a mental disorder when it comes to people naturally. Some leftists would be normal if they weren’t brainwashed by the Minitrue Media.
Yes, we are saying exactly the same thing since all the whrining, complaining, left wing North East liberals decided to vacate their hell holes and migrate to our great free state!
the people fleeing California are like illegal aliens fleeing the place they destroyed with their votes only to destroy the next place they land.
Cockroaches, nothing but !
Yes, and the State Legislature and da Guv here are still pretending California is going to “transition” to EVs and the rest of the country will follow suit.
You know the state is over regulating companies into near oblivion when titans like Chevron and Phillips 66 are closing refineries.
And we also know that California and the federal governments are woefully incompetent and cursed with incompetent leaders, except for President Trump and his Cabinet, state and federal government unions and worthless employees, when the rulers of shit-holes like Mexico, Russia, China, Venezuela and Iran have no problems getting rich off of oil.
Sweden spends its oil profits on the country, not its oligarchs, but that sure as shit can’t happen here.
And last I checked, the smog cleared out of Southern California because of catalytic converters, not hippy gas, which came out long after the smog was gone.
I remember when I was a kid and teen and I would go up into the San Bernardino Mountains. By the time I would get up to 3 or 4 thousand feet or so, (Big Bear Lake and the city are 6,752 ft up and Mt San Gorgonio tops off at 11,503 ft) I could look down and see the smog blanketing the SOCAL Valley, which looked like a dirty ring around a bathtub. It was nasty. I used to marvel that I was able to live in that fetid miasma down in Riverside.
The $8. to $50(!) eggs at the supermarkets are bad enough, I don’t want to pay that much for gas. And you know, once da Guv, Grease head Newscum loses his free ride and expense account, I bet he won’t want to pay that much for gas out of his own miserly pocket.
The California government sucks Greenpeace whale dicks.
Yeah, I’ve seen that smog ring in the SF Bay Area somewhere. I don’t remember where I was but it was so shocking it stuck in my memory.
Maybe it was here in Santa Clara Valley, LOL! There are a few spots in North Bay I’ve seen on maps where smog could’ve accumulated in the old timey pre-catalytic converter age.
The only North Bay area I’ve been to is Muir Woods. I haven’t even been to wine country up there yet. I really should get out more often.
If Chevron closes the Richmond facility.. That’s the end of Richmond. The City is constantly trying to find ways to shut it down and the town would cease to =exist
I’ve read about Richmond. The closer a city is to San Fran and Oakland, the crazier and more criminal it seems to get.
I remember back in the late 70’s when I was a driver for Bekins going into Denver and saying to my co-driver how disgusting that people have to live in that crap.
Idaho is full. And you should see all the snow here this week. And the summers? So frinkin’ hot. Go to Florida or Texas. Heh.
Sorry, I just might move to Coeur D’Alene. I’d probably have to live in a one room shack with an outhouse though, that place is so expensive.
I’m conservative though, not one of those left-wing human locusts (called Californicators in AZ) who move to Arizona, Texas and Florida along with the normal people fleeing the devastation wrought by those very locusts, who spread blight wherever they go.
I’m here in Texas and we don’t want any more commieforians!!!!!
How about go to Delaware or Maine! We have enough illegals in Texas to deal with! Had a couple from California move into our neighborhood and it took him about 10 minutes for the entire neighborhood to know he needed to find a different place to live! Rude and nasty folks!
Don’t forget jet fuel!
The neighborhood refinery where I used to live had a pipeline 20+ miles or so long under SF Bay to deliver jet fuel to SF Airport. The refinery was a huge profit center, generating billions in profit in a normal year.
Let California digs its own grave. It just blows my mind how election after election the majority population continues to vote these delusional, insane politicians in. My heart does go out to the Christians and conservatives there. But ultimately, they can make a decision to move. In this case, there truly are a lot more greener pastures than drought plagued (through weather or insane political choices) California.
Yes, you are right., Hans! It is terrible here in CA. Can’t move in my age anymore. Yes, we have too many Commicrats here. But there is massive voter-fraud going on as well! All the Illegals get with their driver licenses [automatically] registered to vote for these demo/commicrats! Newsom was tried to throw out x 2 but he made it amazingly!!! The only Republican since I live here was Schwarzenegger, & he was a bad joke!
At some point doesn’t the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT have an obligation to SAVE Californians FROM California?? Really, think about the oblama’s Federal takeover of a few city Police Depts because he considered them to be “troublesome”! WHY should decent, law abiding Californians have to suffer due to the corruption of the PROBABLY illegally elected officials?
I seem to recall the Federal Gov’t running or supervising ELECTIONS in several Southern States due to perceived issues – why not CA?? Could a DEMOcrat really win an HONEST election?
Yeah, the government was still intervening in some of the Southern states during President Grant’s term (1869-1877).
Grant was a great President and very underrated, in my opinion. Boy did those Dirtbagocrats in Dixieland hate the Yankee Reconstruction/Repression. I would think that’s why the D-Bags are still so full of bile but they formed their party from bile and swarmed out of the South like human locusts.
Now the South is patriotic and big cities and many big suburban areas in the Yankee North are left-wing to “woke.” Go figure.
Not as left as everyone thinks! We have illegals voting and elites, yes. The rest of us are normal but there’s vote fraud! Dem machine vote fraud.
Yeah, especially here in CA. Just ask AA. THe D-Bag minority rules us with an iron fist of corruption. Cities like LA and San Fansicko are firmly in enemy hands, though. San Diego is screwed up too. The normal people seem to have come in second to the lefty scum.
Yeah, Grant wanted to buy the Dominican Republic for a bargain price, but his enemies in Congress sabotaged the deal. Grant said the day he left the Presidency was the happiest day of his life 🙂
No wonder he drank! 🙂
The dirtbag party was the party of that started the civil war it is the party of the confederacy. It was, and is, the party of racism, and anti freedom.
Your grasp of history is appallingly simplistic and quite flawed. I agree the modern Dem party is arrogant,racist, ideologically infected, and rather perverse.
Sounds good to me. As incompetent as the feds are, nobody could be worse than the autocratic oligarchy of corrupt scumbags who rule California de Mexico. And take over Washington District of Corruption again, too. Its Mayor, Muriel Bowser (apt name for a dumb bitch,) is worse than Marion Berry was, and he’s a crackhead.
It would be funny to see some officious faced federal bureaucrats ordering da Guv, Grease Head Newscum, around like a pookie and locking the doors of the California State Capitol. They should all be tarred and feathered and ridden out on a rail except our government trains go to nowhere.
I find it interesting that no matter what the problem is, government is always the problem.
Government is everyone’s silent business partner. A partner who ‘s hand is always out when there’s profits to be had but conspicuously absent when there’s risk involved.
The government operates on the principle of: “heads we wins, tails you lose.” A pithy saying indeed but unfortunately, at least half the American people don’t understand or appreciate what that maxim implies and the consequences thereof.
Ergo, government malfeasance, coercion, corruption and grifting goes on with near impunity. Proof? 1 out of every 3 politicians on Crapitol Hill is to some degree, corrupt and by the same measure, a kleptomaniac (how else do you explain Washington DC politicians who became, suddenly, quite wealthy not long after being elected to office?)
The sad and tragic part is, far too few Americans seem to genuinely care. It is beyond dispute that the American people deserve the elected officials they voted for and keep reelecting. Ergo, by my reckoning, there is no down side to being greedy and corrupt. Just stay below the radar so as not to be overtly greedy and corrupt.
Sorry if I went off on a tangent but it was necessary to view California from a macroscopic point of view. California is not alone in an impending economic collapse. I laid out some of the underlying reasons why.
As a Californian, don’t feel sorry for those of us who live in this democrat sh*thole. The majority of voters in this state are empty headed fools (in addition to being functionally illiterate) who keep voting for democrats and are getting exactly what they voted for and thus have no right to complain.
In my opinion, California’s economic collapse can’t come soon enough. It’s only fair that the majority who keep voting for democrats get what they voted for and all the attending consequences.
Those with functioning brains leave. Why are you still there?
After Newsom won the recall, I was still in CA but preparing to leave.
I told colleagues, most of whom are liberal-leftists, that now that Newsom had won that loose choke collar around their necks was about to be pulled tighter and tighter. And so it has…but me, I left.
The overwhelming amount of inland counties are conservatives and normal but the retarded coastal elites and their Dirtbagocrat vote cheat machine tyrannize California.
And Newscum lost that recall but cheating kept him in.
But I know what you mean. I’m going to leave too, when I’m finally ready. I don’t see this place redeeming itself in my lifetime.
Simple answer:
As a 1%’er, I have no compelling reason to leave. The machinations of the state’s ruling party (democrats) does not affect me. Also, at heart, democrats are feckless cowards and as such, do not frighten me at all.
Besides, someone has to stay and fight those sissified democrat bastards. I’ve never ran from a fight in my life and never will.
FWIW:
I tried to answer your question but FPM did not allow it to be posted. Alas, I learned many years ago that freedom of speech is a precarious thing and on some subjects, being honest and truthful is not always acceptable.
I too have been barred from commenting on Breitbart because of a truthful comment that they refused to publish. It is dangerous to be truthful. ALSO, Facebook told Trump it was eliminating its censors. Not true. I am suspended regularly for posts they do not like. Frequently, I can’t ascertain what exactly they are objecting to and there is no recourse. Toujour la meme chose.
Many of us stay because we have family here who cannot leave. And I believe there are more right thinking people than liberals, but until the election system, which is controlled by the Left, is fixed, we have a hard time winning. any elections. Hoping that the deep pockets that live in Pacific Palisades refuse to put up with LA leadership’s nonsense. They are now pricing water beyond affordable. Not so long ago, my water bill was $30 a month, now it’s $130 and we’ve just been notified that extensive increases are on the table for the next couple of years. The smelt are drinking my water, homelessness is up and school test scores are down. The last person to leave won’t need to turn out the lights as the grid will be down any day now.
“The majority of voters in this state are empty headed fools (in addition to being functionally illiterate.)”
No, the majority are normal. The tards you describe live in the big coastal cities and have the support of the massive Dirtbagocrat vote cheat machine and hordes of illegal aliens voters.
You could say that about the entire I-5 corridor. Oregon and Washing both get saner as you move towards the East.
Yes, I’ve driven the entire I-5 corridor from the Grapevine to Vancouver, may strips of it multiple times. Western Washington and Oregon and the Cascades in between the east are drop dead gorgeous but the Portland and Seattle areas have poisoned the sociopolitical culture in those states. Too many carpetbagger leftists who shit where they live.
Governor Nuisance is a total Dunderhead and a typical UN/Globalists who would force everyone to Mass Transit and his Pipedream The Bullet Train
The bullet train was former governor Jerry ‘the clown” Brown’s wet dream. Newscum inherited that dream and now it’s his turn to “stroke” the tax payers.
And it was never even a real bullet train, just an Amtrak copy which would lose even more money if CA were capable of building anything but crappy government buildings.
California is a prime example of what incompetence and corruption can achieve.
Yeah, it’s the little choo choo that could. “I think I can be incompetent, I think I can be corrupt! I know I can be incompetent, I know I can be corrupt! I’m going nowhere!”
The PRC(californica) is banning ICE power in 10 years .. So they won’t need gas or diesel.
JB Hunt and the rest of “Big Trucking” need to be building large trailer transfer stations where major highways in AZ, NV, and OR cross into CA. where they can exchange trailers with the new state operated CalTrucking’s fleet of battery powered tractors (which regularly self-immolate and operate at a MASSIVE losses.)
That’s clever. They probably would do that (have transfer stations) if the EV truck craze ever took hold.
Diesel engines were originally designed to run on clean fuel, all the government would need to do is require clean burning diesel, I think.
We’ve tried to vote our way out of this for twenty years.
2-1 Democrats FOR EVERY STATEWIDE ELECTION.
YET the majority of counties vote 2-1 for Republicans. SOMEONE HELP!
California can just smuggle more murderers and rapists into the state to pick avocadoes.
When they’re not murdering and raping and voting 97 times for the Demokkkrats,
they can use rickshaws and a new app – (Uber-rickshaw?) to replace cars and SUVs.
Everyone else can use electric vehicles with trailers running on bio-diesel.
It’ll be great. Especially if you’re a murderer or a rapist.
I work in insurance and I have to do rate filings for my company. In insurance, rates are filed by state. The rate filing requirements in California are insanely long and complicated; far longer and more complicated than other states. I would say the CA rate filings are in a league of their own.
Search “brown pelosi newsom getty” on Rumble and Bitchute.
Yes, the Getty family, whatsisname in particular, handed silver spoon Newscum everything he has and ever did have. That candyass little elitist has never earned a thing.
He has good taste in houses though. He bought the house next to my grandmother’s house (no longer in the family, my best childhood memories were there). Fantastic view of Mount Tamalpias.
Yes, lefty elitists love their elegant homes. Of course, who doesn’t or wouldn’t. Love of luxury is one of the only normal traits lefties have. I enjoy the simple life as much as the next guy but there’s something to be said about sluttish luxury. The only places I’ve experienced it are in five star hotels in Bali and other places in Indonesia. I could never afford to get even a sniff of luxury here but the lowest exchange rate for the American dollar and Indonesian currency when I was there was $10,000 rupiahs to one US dollar. I was able to wallow in luxury over there. And the chicks there are hot.
Not sure where to send suggestions, but I’m sure a lot of us would be interested in your investigative journalism skills regarding the plane crashes.
Newsom’s takeover of private industries in California:
Covered California = State run health care system for those who cannot afford to pay for their own.
California Fair = State run insurance system for the housing industry for those who cannot get coverage on their own, for example, from State Farm. (Newsom runs the private insurers out with draconian regulations, then steps in to set up his commie socialized version to replace them).
So now comes the oil and gasoline industry, next up for a Newsom takeover. Maybe he will call this program “Little Fidel’s Gas for Californians.” He will make gasoline so expensive that most people will end up riding their bikes to work. (Gas in California just went up 70 cents in the last few weeks).
Luckily for us, he’ll be out of office before he can have his cronies do that for him. Unfortunately, we’ll certainly end up with somebody else as bad as he’s been, if not worse. They seem to get worse and worse each time.
Heels Up Harris thinks she can be da Guv but that moron twice thought she could be President. We’ll probably end up with a slimy career piece of shit like Xavier Becerra or Alex Padilla. Those Spanish names guarantee the 10 million plus illegal aliens will vote for them.
CA has a surfeit of politicians who should be assassinated for the public good. Too bad for us that conservatives don’t assassinate people, only lefties do.
Trump should ban all intranational migration by registered Democrats from California.
Let them go to places that are amenable to them, like Cuba and Venezuala.
The majority of us Californians are normal. Unfortunately, our state is ruled by D-Bags and their vote cheat machine and their 10 million illegal aliens voters. And many of those lefty scumbags flee CA to escape the crappy living conditions THEY CAUSED, and spread those mental disorders wherever they go.
The Money Quote:
“Insurance companies are fleeing California. Refineries are fleeing California. Californians are fleeing California. But there’s enough people in the state that a major energy crisis is entirely plausible.”
This is the Coleman Young model that still underpins the entire Democrat/CPUSA party; Destroy the culture, industry, economy, infrastructure, everything. Yet still win elections by getting rid of every person who will not vote for you.
This strategy has never failed.
Detroit was a one industry city and Michigan had nothing else but a nice peninsula separated from the animals. The North of Michigan is nice but not exactly a state breadwinner.
California is much different. The Di-Bags can pollute it with their sociopolitical filth but they can only hinder its middle class so much. Not for lack of trying, though.
Detroit used to be a great city. All it took to destroy it were the Di-Bags and their usual suspects. People in the rest of the state are hanging on, even with the filthy Islamic shit-holes which pollute it but they’re much more put upon than us Californians, even with our sky high taxes.
Build a WALL AROUND ALL OF CALIF! ALLOW NO ONE TO LEAVE, OR ENTER! Shoot to kill. And everyone that has Left Calif in the Last 10 YEARS, be SENT BACK! You started most of this BS, never even tryed to STOP any of the Social Communist Programs BUT KEPT VOTING FOR EVERY “Fn” one of them! Go Back And FIX, OR Live in the Craphole YOU HAVE MADE!
The majority of us are victims of our D-Bag overlords and an armed rebellion isn’t going to happen. If you lived here you’d understand the state is nothing like the national misconception.
Help us, Donald J Trump, you’re our only hope
surprised the California Coastal Commission hasn’t already shut down every power plant in the state
CA has been showing the rest of us how to live for a hundred years. Why should they stop now? Let them continue in their downward spiral so that we can continue to “learn” from them.
Maybe someday they’ll learn something from us and drop the American Communist Party as their favorite.
Until these idiots in California learn NOT to elect Democrats, they will forever be on an island attached to land. Let them all drown in the quicksand they, themselves, have made to happen. Not sorry for any Californians. Sorry! The voters have created their own rocket ship, which unfortunately is spiraling down upon themselves.
CallousForlornYa always wants to be first in everything; they can be first to go ‘bellyup’ !