[Carry_Okie]

This is garbage and probably payback from Davis to California refiners and gasoline distributors. California RFG (what DG calls a boutique formulation) inhibits refiners from out of state selling their product in California. It also consumes a great deal of natural gas to produce. Getting rid of RFG would reduce the price of electricity by making more natural gas available for power generation without constructing new pipeline capacity. It would make more gasoline from out of state sources available and thus LOWER gasoline prices in California, which have been among the highest in the nation for nearly a decade.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It also consumes a great deal of natural gas to produce

Good point!

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[Dog Gone]

Yep, the rational choice is to get rid of RFG altogether. Simply banning MTBE, which makes up a significant portion of an actual gallon of gasoline, will cause a gasoline shortage of an unacceptable magnitude.

It either needs to be phased out over a period of a couple of years, or the stupid rules about California gasoline need to be dumped altogether.

The latter would be my choice, but I know it won't be Davis's.

If we had a national standard for gasoline formulation, there wouldn't be shortages in each region, something that is essentially guaranteed every year under current rules.

[Grampa Dave]

Bingo! You posted, This is garbage and probably payback from Davis to California refiners and gasoline distributors. California RFG (what DG calls a boutique formulation) inhibits refiners from out of state selling their product in California. It also consumes a great deal of natural gas to produce. Getting rid of RFG would reduce the price of electricity by making more natural gas available for power generation without constructing new pipeline capacity. It would make more gasoline from out of state sources available and thus LOWER gasoline prices in California, which have been among the highest in the nation for nearly a decade.