If you've taken a drive into West Sacramento going west on Highway 50, you may have seen a giant billboard that reads 'Why is our gas expensive?" It seems like a great question, but there isn't a simple answer.
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The second paragraph says there isn't a simple answer but a graphic just a little further on in the article shows there is - taxes. That's it, plain and simple.
Newsom as always takes some blame for shit like this, but California has been screwing drivers over for a good half century now. And the worst part is that their bullshit policies tend to spread to the rest of the country like malignant tumors.
ReplyDeleteTaxes high for petrol? . Someone's gotta pay for Newsom's Brylcreem and anal bleaching.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Central Oregon in the early 60s, gas was more costly in Kalifornia than it was at home. Even then, we were seeing SoCal migrants in Oregon, and no one in OR liked them.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia gas is one of the few things I know of in the US where taxes (sales) are calculated including other taxes (federal excise).....
ReplyDeleteThey can't help but make more money
Juvenile response, "Other states pay those taxes, too." It's OK if everybody does it? I think the point is, a large part of your gasoline costs are taxes.
ReplyDeleteThey also use a gas blend that is pretty much unique to their state and have to import a lot of their gas from surrounding states due to lack of refineries in CA.
ReplyDeleteLack of refineries in California? Not even close.
DeleteCalifornia ranks third in the nation in oil refining capacity. The state's 17 refineries – located in the Central Valley, Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area – have a combined capacity of nearly two million barrels per calendar day.
https://www.wspa.org/issue/refining-operations/#:~:text=California's%20Boutique%20Blend%20of%20Fuel,million%20barrels%20per%20calendar%20day.
And here on Page 7: https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/10/Refinery-Documents-2015yr-Petroleum.pdf
yep, we have a unique blend in this state which costs more and what's worse is that our unique blend removed the MTBE in '03 and replaced it with something else that was no better for the environment and lowered our octane, too. The end result is we pay more for worse gas.
DeleteWhether imported or not, how much more expensive is it to move the fuel around the state? I understand they tightened up the emission standards on trucks not long ago, so that you have to run a new(er) machine, with its associated acquisition costs.
DeleteHere in Lotus Land the commie taint eaters have had an 'carbon tax' in place since 08, and it hasn't made one bit of change in the climate. It has made everything far more expensive and an small group of 'stakeholders' very wealthy. I run marine fuel because it's several cents cheaper and no facking motor destroying ethanol. Fuck all the cocksucking greenoids!
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
As high as gas taxes are, they still don't pay for the damage that cars do to the roads. I.E. automobile travel and truck transportation are still heavily subsidized by other forms of taxes.
ReplyDeleteOr to put it another way, if taxes where actually charged according to how much damage your your vehicle did to the road, and thus how much your share of the required maintenance was, you'd be paying about triple the gas tax. Yes, even in commiefornia.
Of course, the only way to actually *do* that would be a per-mile tax based on GVWR/number of wheels, which IMHO would really be just and excuse for more government monitoring and control. Which in turn would be just another excuse to punish the middle class and lower everyone's standard of living. So not really ideal either.
John G
I don't know where you live but the winter weather here does much more damage than any vehicles.
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