10-07-2012, 11:08 AM
Definitely feeling the gas price hike here. California's requirement for "lower polluting" gas seems to be contributing to the shortage and hikes and making the prices soar higher than other states. This was featured in the SF paper yesterday:
With gas in short supply and prices in California soaring to more than $5 per gallon, a quick but politically volatile solution may be to allow cheaper, out-of-state gas to flow into the state, says Severin Borenstein, the co-director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Since 1996, California pumps have been required to sell a special blend of lower polluting gasoline. The hope was that other states would follow suit. They haven't. As a result, when gas gets tight in California, there is little choice but to ride out the shortage and subsequent price spike.
Borenstein suggests allowing suppliers - for a fee of say 25 cents per gallon - to bring in the less healthy gas.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ros...925320.php
Good that ideas for relief are being contemplated, but this one is never gonna happen, imo. We need better long terms solutions country-wide.
With gas in short supply and prices in California soaring to more than $5 per gallon, a quick but politically volatile solution may be to allow cheaper, out-of-state gas to flow into the state, says Severin Borenstein, the co-director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Since 1996, California pumps have been required to sell a special blend of lower polluting gasoline. The hope was that other states would follow suit. They haven't. As a result, when gas gets tight in California, there is little choice but to ride out the shortage and subsequent price spike.
Borenstein suggests allowing suppliers - for a fee of say 25 cents per gallon - to bring in the less healthy gas.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ros...925320.php
Good that ideas for relief are being contemplated, but this one is never gonna happen, imo. We need better long terms solutions country-wide.