Rising California gasoline prices
highlight growing divide in US
Wall Street Journal,
by
Amrith Ramkumar
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
10/23/2019 10:43:33 AM
The price at the pump was more than $4 a gallon in Vista, Calif., when Scott Hissem recently embarked on a trip to Texas celebrate his 40th birthday. When the delivery associate for Amazon.com Inc. arrived in the Lone Star state, he got an unexpected present: Gasoline cost just $2 and change. The gap has Mr. Hissem considering a move to escape California’s high cost of living. “It makes life hard,” Mr. Hissem said of California, which is the most populous U.S. state and the one with the highest gasoline prices. “You can’t go out and do the things you
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DoneinCalif 10/23/2019 10:45:03 AM (No. 215354)
The only real answer is to keep voting democrat!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/23/2019 10:54:10 AM (No. 215363)
Keep voting Democrat you suckers. Deserve paying every penny and more as far as I am concerned.
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'The gap has Mr. Hissem considering a move to escape California’s high cost of living.'
Unfortunately, the destination states must deal with the economic migrants bringing their bizarre, twisted ideology with them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/23/2019 11:09:39 AM (No. 215369)
Mr. Hissem is an Amazon delivery driver in Vista, CA. The current salary there is about $34,384. The openings appear to be for seasonal drivers for the upcoming holiday season. If he moved to Dallas, TX, for example, he would make about $35,262. If he moved to Waco, TX, he would make about $31,786.
An odd example for this piece.
Gas does go up periodically. Then it goes back down. It is more expensive than in other states because of the emissions regulations.
We have lived here all of our lives, love it, don’t plan to leave, and are managing quite well.
Everyone should live where he is happiest… You can always find the cheapest of anything, but do you really want that? It’s a matter of personal choice.
It is amusing when Texans worry about fleeing Californians poisoning their state’s politics. California was a Republican state for decades when Texas was not. Simple logic would tell us that if anyone is fleeing they are probably a Republican. A Democrat would have no reason to leave.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/23/2019 11:15:00 AM (No. 215372)
California is dying a slow death but nobody who lives there will admit it until they leave. I fear it will remain forever on my list of no-go places in this country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/23/2019 11:15:08 AM (No. 215373)
Let's see, the state imports 50% of the oil from Saudi Arabia (who's oil refineries were recently attacked) which adds to the most recent cost increase.
California just prohibited State lands to be used for any transport or pipelines leading out, which renders the massive oil reserves CA has as mostly useless and reduces the prospects of tax revenues FOR the state.
California has a unique blend of fuel (I hear there are about 27 different across the US) that's only produced by the few legacy refineries in the State despite many of them over 40 years old, and the State's population doubling in those 40 years.
(even after the Richmond refinery fire, Chevron was denied the ability to expand their refining capacity by the environmental lobby who demanded an entire new EIR, so Chevron simply re-built what they had).
California tax revenue from gasoline sales were declining in recent years, and they floated a mileage tax to make up for the revenue, but instead increased the gas taxes and declaring if they weren't approved by voters all sorts of projects wouldn't be built, or completed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SALady 10/23/2019 11:24:25 AM (No. 215381)
Sorry, #4, but your logic doesn't hold.
Lie-berals are like locusts. They enter a field, stay there until they have destroyed everything in that field, and then move on to the next field to repeat their destruction. Lie-berals are like that too. They took over Cubafornia, are quickly destroying it, and now they are moving on to new states with great economies and opportunities, and will vote in Demon-Rat governments who will destroy our states too.
I have three new neighbors, who are all recent invaders from Cubafornia. And, of course, they are all rabied lie-berals -- ready to vote for solid lie-beral Demon-Rats to remove those "horrible Republicans" from control of our state. They are missing the parts of their brains that understand cause and effect. Their political stupidity already destroyed Cubafornia, and our beautiful Texas is doing just fine without that evil!!!
So, if you will excuse me, I 'm going to go buy some of that nice $2.05 a gallon gas at my corner station while I still can!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TJM 10/23/2019 11:49:24 AM (No. 215402)
LOL - you earned it lefties!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mushroom 10/23/2019 12:08:02 PM (No. 215419)
I'd like to see a piece on gas prices across the country *before* taxes. I'm sure some places draw more from license fees and less from pump...and the other way around, but it would make for an interesting comparison.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 10/23/2019 12:12:47 PM (No. 215422)
Lived in CA for 14 years and left for good this year. The high gas prices are a self inflicted wound. They raised the gasoline taxes July 1st this year, the highest ever, and the Governor acts surprised and wants an investigation? What lunacy! Add the requirement for their unique gasoline blend requirements and the switch to winter blend this time of the year creates shortages and price hikes every time in the fall. Get rid of the unique CA gas blends, the excessive gas taxes, and the Democrats running the state and your problem is solved. Don't hold your breath because the primary system in CA perpetuates one party rule as the highest vote getters are both Democrats and a Republican is not even on the ballot.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MattMusson 10/23/2019 12:43:25 PM (No. 215437)
California refuses to build a pipeline to Texas because the oil is fracked. So, they are condemned to being the only US state still dependent on Middle East Oil.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 10/23/2019 1:24:29 PM (No. 215456)
As long as he doesn't bring his leftist, stupid voting ideas with him, so he can wreck Texas, make it more like the disaster that Cali is.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
learner 10/23/2019 1:40:27 PM (No. 215470)
It is also not helpful when the roads are falling apart but the taxes collected to fix them are used for high speed trains to nowhere.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 10/23/2019 1:51:24 PM (No. 215479)
Local gas prices here in northeastern Florida are around $2.19/gal.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hairy Eyeball 10/23/2019 2:39:13 PM (No. 215515)
I paid $2.32 this morning.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 10/23/2019 2:59:37 PM (No. 215543)
The cost of living in Waco should be about half compared to Vista, California. And the pay is $3K less, or about 9% less pay. Sounds like a financial windfall.
The average home price in Vista is $543,000, in Waco, $185,000. A 30 year fixed mortgage on $185K is about $1200 a month. A 30 year fixed mortgage on 543K$ is $3,263, both from online sources, and I didn't really spend a lot of time looking into these estimates, but the seem about right. So, about $2,000 more in your pocket each month if you buy a home in Waco.....basically, it means you CAN buy a home in Waco, and cannot buy a home in Vista on a $34K or $31K income.
Huge lifestyle differences, HUGE. And the $185K home in Waco is probably larger than the $543K home in Vista, but that is just a guess.
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$2.65 North Central PA. We usta have the highest gas taxes but Kalifornication had to be numbah one. Ok you got it hahaha. Sri for the good folks who can’t yet escape.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/23/2019 5:15:10 PM (No. 215700)
For years I have thrown out a hook to those urging Californians to move to tell us what perfect place they live in. (crickets)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
fayebeck 10/23/2019 9:45:33 PM (No. 215850)
I retired in 1998 in Atlanta area and moved back to California for one reason. Entire family lives here. Mother, brother and our three kids. That is the only reason. Our "handsome" used car salesman look alike has just suggested that his commie co-hort investigate the "price fixing" going on with gas prices. Then signs a rent control fixing bill which no doubt will raise rents or have some other serious side effect. There is not one iota of any common sense with the lefty bastards. None.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trigger2 10/24/2019 4:55:12 AM (No. 216006)
I'll give it about 6 months max before the totally run demonrat legislature raises gasoline taxes again. They'll need the extra cash to pay for coddling illegals with every benefit imaginable. The same goes for their criminal voter base.
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CA's pretty boy governor is blaming 'price fixing' by the oil companies. Every analysis points to the state's excessive regulations and insufficient number of refineries.