New sticker at the gas pump......

[CC27]

riversedge (80,670 posts)

New sticker at the gas pump......

I admit I had to read it twice before I 'got it"!!



https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221109530

I am sure this won't age well.

[SVPete]

I am sure this won't age well.

Nope, but Trump will soon have another accomplishment for DU-grade Progs to hate.

BTW, gas prices here in Silicon Valley are still significantly lower than the highest under LIEden,

[ADsOutburst]

Ah, terrible puns. One of the few things leftists are consistently good at.

[SVPete]

riversedge (80,670 posts)
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I admit I had to read it twice before I 'got it"!!

Not very bright, are you?

[tuolumnejim]

If that was in the peoples RepubliK of Kalifornistan the honors go to coke fiend Newsome.

[SVPete]

If that was in the peoples RepubliK of Kalifornistan the honors go to coke fiend Newsome.

Looking at the price for 91/"premium", it might be, the gas pump at least. The sticker might be a Photoshop, though better than average (note the seam where two sheet metal panels abut).

That said, CA gas prices are $1-$2 per gallon higher than many/most states, and its all about CA taxes and Sacramento's decades-long lawfare and harassment against oil companies and refineries.

[RonE]

Not very bright, are you?
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at the gas pump......

I admit I had to read it twice before I 'got it"!!e]

riversedge (80,670 posts)
New sticker

As Kennedy might say "your driveway doesn't reach the street" But, he'd miss that one too.

[CollectivismMustDie]

None of them cared about gas prices during the biden or obama reign of stupidity, beyond getting pissed if anyone laid blame on them.

[SVPete]

Since unlike many DU-folk I'm not inclined to lie, when we got gas yesterday the price had risen from $5.00 to $5.40 (I rounded up the .001). This is still lower than the peak under LIEden, though close to it (10 or 20 cents lower than LIEden).

[ADsOutburst]

None of them cared about gas prices during the biden or obama reign of stupidity, beyond getting pissed if anyone laid blame on them.

Am I misremembering, or was it the case that, in the past, leftists have suggested higher gas prices were actually good, since it would encourage people to use public transit or electric vehicles?

[DefiantSix]

Since unlike many DU-folk I'm not inclined to lie, when we got gas yesterday the price had risen from $5.00 to $5.40 (I rounded up the .001). This is still lower than the peak under LIEden, though close to it (10 or 20 cents lower than LIEden).

Your neck of the woods has the added problem of all the refineries that have already packed up their dollies and dishes and left the state, as well as those who are preparing so to do.

In my neck of the woods, gas shot up from $2.80 (for premium 91 octane) or so where we were before spring break, to what I paid yesterday at $3.18 per gallon.

[SVPete]

Am I misremembering, or was it the case that, in the past, leftists have suggested higher gas prices were actually good, since it would encourage people to use public transit or electric vehicles?

You remember correctly. In the 70s and 80s, Enviros were demanding that taxes be raised to bump gas prices up to $5 per gallon ... for the environment.

[SVPete]

Your neck of the woods has the added problem of all the refineries that have already packed up their dollies and dishes and left the state, as well as those who are preparing so to do.
...

I've been posting about prices for the same grade and same stations for apples-apples comparison.

CA has some of the or THE highest taxes on gas in the US. The Dems in Sacto have been waging lawfare against refineries and gas companies for literally 2 or 3 decades (e.g. shamvestigations of "price gouging" every year or two that always proved there had been none).

[DLR Pyro]

California bill to suspend gas tax fails despite rising prices

State Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach and author of Senate Bill 1035, told journalists Wednesday afternoon outside the same Sacramento committee room that California prices are only going to rise at the pump. He blamed the state's policies for often allowing price hikes.

“Here in California, because we rely so much on foreign oil, we put ourselves in this position,” Strickland said in response to a question from The Center Square. “Because of anti-business policies, we just lost Phillips 66 and Valero’s shutting down. Now my bill is the only thing we really have right now to give immediate relief to hardworking California families.”

In addition to suspending the state’s gas tax for one year, SB 1035 would have suspended California’s low carbon fuel standard and exempt transportation fuel suppliers from the state’s cap-and-trade program for one year, according to a legislative analysis.

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The bill was rejected Wednesday by the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_419fd12a-f129-492e-a447-ec5a75768625.html

This is what happens with a 1 party rule state

[SVPete]

https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_419fd12a-f129-492e-a447-ec5a75768625.html

This is what happens with a 1 party rule state

No good bill proposed by an R, even something Dems would otherwise support, will pass the Sacturdmento legislature.