Originally Posted by
vaksedtothemax
Sucks that California (annd Hawaii) import a ton of their oil from foreign Countries. Also sucks they have roughly 20 less refineries than they did in decades past. Also sad they tax the sh!t out of their gas.
like I said earlier, you take CA out of the West Coast average price, it drops $0.40. I noticed we started carrying extra fuel to CA long before Iran started.
$40-100% more? So worse than autopens years… sure pal. Gas at the pump isn’t at Joes record highs, yet you predict 2-5x the price increases his administration created trying to Build Back Better?
The problems in California are political/philosophical. They have rather substantial reserves of oil, both offshore and on land.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2025/3052/fs20253052.pdf
They just won’t allow it to be developed.
And their politicians seem to believe that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is more a negotiable suggestion than an actual physical constraint.