So those tankers are all a figment of my imagination?
What needs to happen is that California’s one state law that requires specially formulated gasoline be repealed so that the citizens are not held hostage to the refiners within the state. If they had any real competition, our gas prices would fall into line with the rest of the country.
Those truck’s are probably hauling to the refinery from the field locally or hauling from the refinery to deliver locally. Here they haul to central hubs that pump directly into pipelines that go to refineries and some deliver straight to the refinery. Some go to refineries down in Houston and west to New Mexico to their refineries.
Quick glance at the map show’s 6 pipelines going west to Cali or intersecting with existing lines in Cali Kinder Morgan is trying to build a line from Wink TX to the Bakersfield Pentland terminal.