CA Dems demand to know why gas prices are so high

Buffalo NY

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As gas prices approach $7 a gallon in California, residents are screaming bloody murder. Newsom’s solution is an insane “windfall tax” on oil and gas companies. Put aside for a moment that most of these companies already can’t make a profit thanks to Newsom’s socialistic policies. Any tax on them will automatically be passed on to consumers, raising gas prices even more. Gas prices in California are the highest in the nation already. Texas-based Valero Energy was delighted to explain it to them. “As to separation between California prices and the prices in the rest of the United States, we can offer the following information. For Valero, California is the most expensive operating environment in the country and a very hostile regulatory environment for refining. California policy makers have knowingly adopted policies with the expressed intent of eliminating the refinery sector. California requires refiners to pay very high carbon cap and trade fees and burdened gasoline with cost of the low carbon fuel standards. With the backdrop of these policies, not surprisingly, California has seen refineries completely close or shut down major units. When you shut down refinery operations, you limit the resilience of the supply chain,” the letter from Valero elaborates. “From the perspective of a refiner and fuel supplier, California is the most challenging market to serve in the United States for several additional reasons. California regulators have mandated a unique blend of gasoline that is not readily available outside of the West Coast. California is largely isolated from fuel markets of the central and eastern United States. California has imposed some the most aggressive, and thus expensive and limiting, environmental regulatory requirements in the world. California polices (sic) have made it difficult to increase refining capacity and have prevented supply projects to lower operating costs of refineries,” the company continued. “We believe the Commission experts understand that California cannot mandate a unique fuel that is not readily unavailable outside of the West Coast and then burden or eliminate California refining capacity and expect to have robust fuel supplies. Adding further costs, in the form of new taxes or regulatory constraints, will only further strain the fuel market and adversely impact refiners and ultimately those costs will pass to California consumers,” Valero concluded in the letter. Remember that crazy left wing socialists like "Wacky Kathy" will follow everything CA does like the sheep she is. It is important to vote Republican in November and continue to vote Republican come 2024. If the pedocrat party can get their cult members under control and move away from socialism and communism, move away from a war on police, move away from protecting criminals and punishing victims, move away from the crazy "green" agenda, move away from pushing trans and CRT agendas in schools, and put forth some candidates that have a grasp on reality you might be able to justify voting for them in the future. But right now the future of this country is at risk.