PKRWUD Energy cost more in California for a reason and it has nothing to do with per capita energy use.....I made a business trip to California in November and talked to some of the oil companies around Huntington beach, Bakersfield and Beverly hills (yes there is even oilfield in Beverly Hills) I was amazed....It cost alot more money to do busines in California then in Texas were I live. Oil producers dont make jack in California per barrel of oil cause of the strict environmental shackels placed on them. Oil has to be above 13$ per barrel before some of them break even in California. Wich is passed along to the californian consumer.
Ok heres the deal since Californians gets price gauged localy.....everyone bends over California it is an oilfield tradition.
My company where I work charges 10% more for products sent to California because they gladly pay it and they are used to grabbing there ankles.
We do over 2,000,000 dollars of business in California per year......Another problem is there are alot of middle men in California before our product reaches the end user it has been marked up several times on top of our 10%.
In case your wondering what we do where I work we put a special polyethylene liner in down hole oilfield tubing.
Its not just Enron every oil producer and oilfield vendor screws California its that way by design.....Dumb California laws
(liberals
) are the reason for your complaints.
California does not like oilfield in thier state thats why they make it so hard to conduct business.
California makes no since they tax oil to the point that marginal wells make no money at all and all the independents went out of business now they are PAYING in more way than one.
Its only gonna get worse the more independents that get ran out of busines the more and more Californians will pay.
I THINK CALIFORNIA IS GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE.