Posted on 01/30/2019 10:42:52 PM PST by lowbridge
Why is CA gas so pricy? Here’s a hint: It starts with a “T” and ends with “axes”
Never mind their outrage increase in gas tax in 2017
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article147437054.html
Still, gas has dipped below $3 in the last month
This is the right answer,raising taxes nonstop will make something much more expensive then it has any right to be.
Gas prices only rising in recent years??
I swear I heard they finally had $3 gas again very recently in Ca...
I filled up today and thanks to Kroger’s rewards with 60 cents a gallon off...
I got 35 gallons at $1.75 a gallon
They’ll be running out of toilet paper and eating the animals in the San Diego Zoo, soon enough.
Cost of doing business in libtard cali.
I have it down to a mathematical formula:
Gas taxes + government regulations = high gas prices
Cheap fuel in Texas ......... must be a Commiepornia thang .
1. state of Californication levies highest taxes imaginable on gasoline
2. state of Californication requires a special formulation of gasoline, which restricts most sales to the handful of mostly-old refineries still operative in the state
....it is cost prohibitive for oil companies to brew the special formula at distant out of state refineries to ship it long distances into CAL, and.....what gas they do so ship must be sold at high prices to recapture the shipping costs
3. state of Californication imposes all sorts of operating restrictions and regulations on its remaining few refineries, which only adds to the costs of production
that have to be recouped at the pump
4. because the state of Californication has effectively prohibited competition in supply, you KNOW what that does to the retail price point (Econ 1A...artificially restrict supply and you get higher and higher prices for the same level of demand)
5. nobody in his right mind would consider for even one second increasing supply by investing in, building any new refineries, which are of course extremely expensive to both build and operate anyway.... but investing any significant capital in such an anti-business, high tax, and restrictive regulation state.... would be NUTS
gas at most urban stations is near or at, occasionally over $4/gallon in the late-great state of Californication, higher for premium grade
Source:
“They’ll be running out of toilet paper and eating the animals in the San Diego Zoo, soon enough.”
I hope they don’t get the two mixed up.
Wow under $2 in Colorado huh, That is nice! It’s been dropping here...
I have been wondering when we will pass back under that milestone.
One cheap non-Kroger station I watch is down to 2.29 and has been there for 2 weeks, but driving around I recently noticed our area is cheaper than everybody else by at least a dime and as much as thirty cents, I would guess the average in the Phoenix area is about $2.45 now.
California has the second highest fuel costs in the nation, with gas prices only rising in recent years.
Yeah? So? Doesn't that go right to their wheelhouse -- the phasing out of "fossil fuels"? ****ing two-faced *******s .
Taxes are a big part yes. But other states have taxes as well.
Why are California's gas prices so much more? There it is. Explained for all to see.
The politicians keep getting complaints from their constituents about the price of gasoline in California being so much higher than the res of the country.
So, the Leftards in California’s legislature can’t say to voters that it is their fault for passing all kinds of laws that make the cost of gasoline in California half again more than most of the rest of the country.
What then does the California politician say to the voter’s question?
I don’t know, it must be the evil oil company slipping in some kind of a surcharge unbeknownst to me. I’ll ask the attorney general to investigate.
The reality is California wants to have gasoline their way. California wants to dictate to the oil companies how their gasoline will be formulated differently than all the other states. So, naturally it is going to COST MORE.
Why take responsibility when you can obfuscate and delay making an answer.
Kalifornia politicians going Venezuela on them!
bttt
Couple months ago with my dollar off i got 35 gallons for $.90 a gallon.
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