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Thanks to Sacramento taxes, AB 32 and other job killer bills, Californians pay 60 cents more than the national average for gasoline.
"Experts blame production cuts - some of them planned, some of them not - at the state's refineries. The isolated nature of California's gasoline market, served by a limited number of refineries, made the situation worse. And the state's gas taxes, which grow larger the higher the price climbs, didn't help.
"There was a point earlier in August when I think not one refinery was running well," said Denton Cinquegrana, who tracks West Coast gasoline markets for the Oil Price Information Service. "They were all having either planned (maintenance) work, or there was one nagging problem or another cutting production."
California also has the highest taxes (and the worst roads) on gasoline.
The reason our gas is expensive? The greedy ideologues in Sacramento. But, we vote for them!
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"Experts blame production cuts - some of them planned, some of them not - at the state's refineries. The isolated nature of California's gasoline market, served by a limited number of refineries, made the situation worse. And the state's gas taxes, which grow larger the higher the price climbs, didn't help.
"There was a point earlier in August when I think not one refinery was running well," said Denton Cinquegrana, who tracks West Coast gasoline markets for the Oil Price Information Service. "They were all having either planned (maintenance) work, or there was one nagging problem or another cutting production."
California also has the highest taxes (and the worst roads) on gasoline.
The reason our gas is expensive? The greedy ideologues in Sacramento. But, we vote for them!
More...