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LA drivers get creative as surging gas prices threatens love affair with the car
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California is more exposed to international energy prices because of the lack of refining in west coast states. It either has to be trucked or shipped. Not cheap. My local gas station in Kansas is still $3.409.
You will soon find that if this war goes on your gas prices will come close to California’s. If your local refinery can get 80c per gallon more in California they will ship it there.
What do you think shipping costs? They have to take it on a Jones Act compliant ship through the Panama Canal. California is getting a deal, in all honesty, after factoring the increased costs.
Yes, that’s why it won’t be a difference of 20c per gallon.
Wasn't there a thing recently where Trump was suspending enforcement of the Jones act? Or did he flip-flop on that already
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Gas in Kansas is $3.05 because that's what people in Kansas can afford.
The gas we do have isn't more expensive to produce or refine. It's all price gouging.
I'm in the 82nd richest county in the country. It isn't gouging. It is the fact that gasoline must be shipped using ships that comply with the Jones Act because California no longer has any refineries. The rest of the country has locally-produced gasoline. California relies on ships that cross the Panama Canal to get to the west coast. It isn't cheap.