After the latest spike in gas prices, Gov. Newsom took to Twitter and convened events claiming that the prices were high because of greedy gas companies and threatened a tax on “windfall profits”. He didn’t get around to explaining why the gas companies are so much greedier in California than anything else. In an extraordinary move, the Los Angeles Times rounds up reactions and they’re all tired of Newsom’s lies. These aren’t even coming from the ‘man on the street’, but from establishment types including experts and environmentalists.
“California officials have had repeated warnings over the last two decades that the state’s unique blend of gasoline is susceptible to supply shortages and sharp price spikes,” is how it begins.
What that means is that California’s ‘clean’ fuel is more expensive, harder to come by and the supply chain is more prone to break down. California’s huge marketplace enables the Democrat supermajority to think it can set policy for the country and occasionally the world.
It’s a huge market, but there are limitations.
“Do I have the new infrastructure fast enough before I retire the old infrastructure, and what happens if you’re in the middle?” said Amy Myers Jaffe, the managing director of Tufts University Climate Policy Lab and a former executive director for energy and sustainability at UC Davis.
“The way we’re doing it now is you just let the fuel costs go up and then we leave poor people with no ability to get anywhere… . And then [California leaders] grandstand against the oil companies — that’s not a solution.”
Who needs actual solutions when you can just blame oil companies and try to Cloward-Piven your way out of it? The solutions proposed, like mandatory supply, would raise prices overall while reducing fluctuations. It’s not an actual solution, just a way to get people to accept a horrible new normal.
Other solutions are more woke nonsense like dense urbanization and public transit. And the actual solutions are off the table.
Andrew Lipow, president of consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates, agreed that a gas reserve such as the U.S. has for crude oil could help, but he said another way to reduce costs would be to relax some of California’s strict regulations on fuel during emergency times, though that comes with environmental trade-offs.
Other ideas, such as building more refineries or a new pipeline to California, stand in sharp contrast with the state’s goals to move away from fossil fuels and related infrastructure.
And that’s why gas prices are high. Unless you want to believe the Dem majority’s conspiracy theories.
“Data show even as crude oil prices decreased and state fees and taxes remained unchanged, the price at the pump still went up because refinery costs and profits more than tripled, now accounting for $2.18 for every gallon of gas that Californians buy,” California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild said in a statement Wednesday. He requested information about the “sudden gap between national and California prices” from in-state oil refiners, which produce the vast majority of gas sold in California.
So Dave’s theory is that the oil and gas companies are only greedy in California.
That’s the kind of nonsense you have to believe to keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.
Yes, CA imposes the absolutely worst restrictions, regulations and taxes in the entire country on the oil industry and gas stations. That includes any oil or gas that comes into CA, along with the additional restrictions, regulations and taxes imposed on the out of state tanker trucks.
Only the dumbest of Dumbocrat voters believe Newscum’s lies, and he’s dumb as F to think the rest of us do.
If it weren’t for the CA vote fraud institution we would’ve got rid of that lowlife fraud in the recall. If the federal vote fraud institution remains as pervasive and effective as it was in 2020, we could have that creature imposed on us as the second fraudulent President in a row. I think America is F’ed. Not everybody feels that they’re dying and I don’t think it’s any different for societies or countries.
I live in NYS and found out my catalytic converter is California style, which is far more expensive than NON- Ca. style. California’s idiocy affects those outside on the State also.
Figures. And we don’t even have smog in CA anymore.
I came across something new today. Fuel prices are so high it is driving local farmers out of business. An example they gave was it costs $3000 to fuel their tractor to plow the field, which makes it not worth it to plant the crop.
Now he is going to ban those produce bags that you put vegetables in at the grocery store.
Why doesn’t that surprise me? What does the cretin propose they be replaced with? Paper bags? Reusable bags from home which spread deadly pathogens? Our pockets and purses?
He doesn’t even have the legal authority for a ban but since when has that ever stopped him from issuing diktats?
Man, I hate that pussy.
lol, exactly what I’ve been wondering. What am I going to put my avocados in? I haven’t come up with anything yet. Maybe the store will come up with something.
Or maybe they will just ignore the law. One store I went to a few years ago just ignored whatever the law was on plastic bags. I hope they didn’t get fined. Another store on the main street was very strict about the bag law, probably an inspector had came around and they got fined.
I don’t know about where you live but supermarkets here and every other state I’ve lived in sells those crappy Mexican grown avocados, and they’re always picked before they’re ripe. I hate having to put them in paper bags or on my kitchen counter to ripen them. They just don’t taste the same that way and the CA ones are the best.
There’s a huge old avocado tree right next to my building but all the ones left on the tree are much too high to reach. It’s close enough to the wind hole in my hallway which faces it to tantalize me but not close enough to reach. Sometimes when I walk to the local Mexican market a few blocks away, I find a few on the ground perfectly ripe.
Newscum belongs in a bag. A used douche bag.
Yeah, I was really surprised about the good avocados here. I don’t know why that is, maybe because it is an agricultural area and the people know good quality produce and won’t buy the crap they sell in the big cities (I bet that keyword puts me in moderation 🙂
Numerous other factors driving up the cost of gas in California as well.
Restrictions on new refineries. Reduces price competition between suppliers. Causes price spikes during refinery outages, which are frequent, due to frequent accidents, etc., reducing supplies of gas.
The gas tax was originally supposed to be used to repair California’s decrepit roads, but the tax was diverted to the general fund.
Excessive profits tax, just another excuse to raise taxes.
A new program is to ban new gas stations, again reducing price competition between gas stations. Seen a lot of that program locally, strangely enough. Why is it starting here 🙂
Another point is that existing refineries and such actually benefit from the government interference, as the government keeps new competitors from entering the market. So we are getting shafted from both sides.
A blend for summer, a blend for winter, variations of blends for locale. Cause supply issues and price hikes twice a year like clockwork. Consumer pays.
CO2 emissions are taxed via carbon trading. Consumer pays.
Gas tax embezzled into the GF for pet projects. Consumer pays.
Next up, a mileage tax .02-.03 cents a mile. Consumer pays.
Go electric they say. $60K new vehicle, Consumer pays.
Charge it home @.49/Kwh rate above baseline. Except when they tell you not to to prevent power outages. Consumer pays
Install solar they say. Have to have battery backup to use for a car for overnight charging. $18-$23K. You guessed it, consumer pays.
Median income in CA – $78k. So you have to spend more than a year’s wages, on avg to get with the program and protect yourself from CA insanity.
Moving is cheaper.
Even the scum in our State Legislature will soon figure out a “transition” to electric vehicles, solar panels and windmills is impossible but they’ll never stop screwing us with excessive regulations and taxes.
Moving is definitely cheaper and whenever the middle class moves out, the scum move in to replace them and degenerate nice neighborhoods into crime ridden shitholes.
There is some good comedy on MSM today, about the Dems raging at Saudi over their oil cutbacks. None of them has suggested increasing USA oil output.