By Bob Walsh
The Vallero refinery in Benecia
in NorCal is now "cold." Obviously the Breck girl, Gavin Newsom, was
unsuccessful in his attempt at conning somebody into taking it over and
operating it. This will without a doubt have some medium term and long
term effect on gas prices in California.
Also
a pipeline bringing petroleum products from the central valley into the
bay area is now shut down. I don't know how many licensed haz-mat
tanker drivers are available but trucks are the least efficient way
possible to move things that can be moved by either boat or pipeline.
The screaming will start fairly soon, with any luck BEFORE the CA
primary. Maybe people will vote with that in mind.
This
shortage will also very possibly effect JP-5 (jet fuel) in the very
near future. I wonder what a possible jet fuel shortage could do to air
line scheduling?
Also
acting today (Wednesday) SCOTUS declined to act on the Proposition 50
question. Barring some truly unusual occurrence CA is going ahead with
it's "tweaked" congressional redistricting. Disappointing, but not
wildly surprising. It is NOT unconstitutional to engage in blatantly
partisan redistricting.
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