Here is another story to file under the heading "decline and fall of the once-great State of California." By pursuing "green" policies, CA is running out of petroleum-based fuel.
Driven by adversarial state policies and aggressive litigation from activist groups, the state’s domestic refining capacity has already been crippled, and has led to the most expensive transportation fuels in the nation for its California residents.With over 11% of the US population, CA may not be "the 4th largest economy in the world" much longer, if it runs out of fuel. Seemingly, no one in Sacramento cares.
California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an ENERGY ISLAND that is separated from the other 49 States by the Sierra Mountains. There are no pipelines over those mountains.
California demands 58 million gallons of transportation fuel DAILY:The Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland are NOT designed to import those humongous volumes of transportation fuels. (emphases in original)
- 11 million gallons/day for Jet fuel for the States’ military and international airports.
- 10 million gallons/day for Diesel for the States’ trucking and construction industries.
- 37 million gallons/day for Gasoline for the States’ more than 36 million vehicles.
