Dude! Your state has its own gas formulations, green fuel requirements, air permits to dispense fuel permits, severe zoning restrictions on gas stations, not to mention the sky high taxes.
Oil prices and refineries are the smallest of your issues. Oil could go to free and your gas prices won’t go below $3! Don’t even put CA prices anywhere near an honest article on oil and gas.
I’m aware of all that. At no time did I imply that gasoline prices would go below three dollars a gallon where I live. In fact the station where I usually buy had mid grade at $3.65 per gallon this morning. So prices have fallen a bit in the last week. However, gas was over $4.00 about a week or so ago, when talk of lower crude prices, the coming influx of Iranian supply, etc was all over the news.
Again, I was simply lamenting the price TREND, which was opposite the national movement, not the always high cost of fuel due to taxation and regulation in California. Sometimes I really question the reading comprehension of people around here...dude.