Thanks to President Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuel production, gas prices are rising everywhere, but nowhere are they rising faster than in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California, and they are going to rise even faster after a slew of legislative and legal moves by the state’s top Democrat.
The average gas price nationally is at about $3.85, up from about $3.20 last December, but in California, some drivers are paying almost twice that now, with the average price of a gallon of gas surging past $6 in Los Angeles County.California has high gas prices by design. It starts with the country’s highest gas tax, 80 cents a gallon. Illinois is second at 66 cents, and the national average is 30 cents.
Not only do California regulations mandate unique gasoline blends, but state law also forces refineries to pay exorbitant cap-and-trade fees that refineries in other states don’t have to pay. It’s a double whammy. California has both limited the number of gas refineries and then taxed the few that do exist to the point of unprofitability.
Finally, Newsom is also taking oil companies to state court, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP, on the theory that oil companies have known about the damage caused by carbon emissions for decades and their “disinformation” campaign about climate change is to blame for a string of natural disasters in the state.
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