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Earlier this week, Fox Business reported the average price of gasoline nationally was $2.68. Then they reported the average cost of gasoline in California was $3.81. How could the tax be 42 cents, yet the difference in the national price be $1.13?\\

California, oil companies need to pay a “cap and trade” fee to save the earth.

I drove from Simi Valley, near Los Angeles, 225 miles to Fresno in the Central Valley. In Simi that morning the cost of a gallon of gas was $4.19 a gallon. Just outside of Fresno, the price was $3.15 a gallon, more than a dollar less. Some of the friends I met in Fresno came to the meeting from the San Francisco Bay Area. The cost of gas in their area was $4.89 a gallon.

(2015)...This is California, so it is going to get worse. On June 15, Gov. Brown announced he would sign the 2015-16 state budget. He said it was balanced and even had a surplus. One day later he announced two special sessions of the legislature. It seems he “forgot” to include money for free health care of 170,000 illegal aliens and money to fix our roads.

Currently, in special session, the Democrat controlled legislature is considering how to fill a $5.7 billion budget gap.

http://watchdog.org/232083/california-gas-taxes/