CBS LA
“I can’t believe this! $5.79 a gallon? Oh my God!”
One station in Calabasas is charging the highest rate in LA County — nearly $6 for a gallon.
Reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, Amanda Burden went to the station and called it a virtual ghost town.
She said cars peeled in but peeled right out when they saw the sign for $5.79 a gallon for regular. Said one customer, “I can’t believe this! $5.79 a gallon? Oh my God!”
Said another, “Crap! I’ve never seen it so high. This is unbelievable.”
It gets worse. Super costs $5.99.
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visions on October 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM
[Blue Collar Todd on October 6, 2012 at 1:49 PM]
As I understand it, the big issue is the special blend of gas required for CA. This would not be much of an issue, particularly stations closing for lack of fuel, if companies just shipped gas from elsewhere, but they can’t because it is illegal to sell, say, gas from AZ or NV in CA.
The question I haven’t seen asked or answered yet is for how long this refinery problem is expected.
In any event, I agree that Mitt should have jump on this with some ads. He ought to emphasize that, as President, his energy policies will bring prices down and he’d also submit a proposal to Congress for a trigger on the requirement of special blends to prevent this type of problem in the future.
If it’s known this is going to last a while longer, he also might mention if he were president now, Republicans would have passed a waiver for the sale of generic blends and he’d have signed it by now.
Dusty on October 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Let me guess….if people don’t smarten up enough, according to your standard, then the government will be obligated to be smart for them.
Is that right? Soon, when food prices are skyrocketing, the government will be obligated to make choices for family size, limiting couples to a specified number of children….Personal responsibility and choices made,….if people aren’t smart enough to realize they need to have smaller families due to the cost of food….my my.
Save us, Obi-Wan, you’re our only hope.
BobMbx on October 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM
It won’t matter a lick if Romney plays for traction in CA. CA will remain as pink as the Easterners and MesoAmerica have made it.
Limerick on October 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM
My heart is set on a convertible (as my 65 convertible Mustang was stolen in California). See screen name. When the economy (and car market) rebounds under a non-Obama administration that low mileage 454 will be one heck of an investment. Patience, Cozmo, patience. Enjoy the ride in the meantime.
65droptop on October 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Remember when they told us that drilling in ANWAR wouldn’t have any effect on prices for a decade? What was that, around ten years ago? Yeah. Good times.
29Victor on October 6, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Let’s hope so.
Look, you goddamned fool, I don’t give two sh!ts how we get rid of you and yours, just so it happens.
‘You and yours’ are too stupid to be making your own decisions, yet ‘you and yours’ will make them for us. How nice.
Lanceman on October 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM
The United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says he has no problem with $10 a gallon gas. These people are nuts.
borg on October 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM
I’ve kept my 2000 Honda Insight since 2002. It gets an overall average of 51.9 MPG. Yeah, I’m smug.
claudius on October 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM
It went up 20 cents overnight here in inland SOCAL. At the cheapest station, regular is $4.59 a gallon.
Of course, that was yesterday evening. It may be more this morning. Haven’t been out yet.
J.E. Dyer on October 6, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Well now if you all woulda had gone and bought a volt, you would just pay it in a higher electric bill.
watertown on October 6, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.
blink on October 6, 2012 at 2:35 PM
This is 100% by design. Most of the Nanny-state libs in California who are pushing cars and fossil fuels off the cliff are already wealthy and feel entitled to drive their Volvos and Prius’s to and from work and their $1m homes, because they know more and care more about the planet than some teabagger electrician or small business winger gun nut who drives a chevy truck to and from the suburbs and machine guns helpless pigs and deer on the weekends.
You would be amazed (or not) at the numbers of high ranking non-profits like Transform and Save the Bay here in California where the leaders of these groups (who exist to stop construction of roads and suburbs and shoehorn people in central soviet style housing units in inner cities) live in million-dollar homes in gated suburbs. Almost none of them have ever worked a day in the private sector unless it was at an ambulance-chasing law firm loaded down with greedy trial lawyers.
Steven Chu is another classic example of a nanny-state lib who wouldnt be caught dead in the type of housing/transport loop groups like STB and Transform have in mind for everyone bu the designated elite.
Ditto for nearly every lib legislator in California.
Sacramento on October 6, 2012 at 2:37 PM
The problem with my Insight is that I can’t use it for hunting. I have a mullie doe tag for eastern Montana, that I’m thinking of not filling because it’s a 600 mile round trip in my 18MPG 4×4.
claudius on October 6, 2012 at 2:38 PM
CW on October 6, 2012 at 2:41 PM
But you have such wonderful environmental standards, so few refineries able to make gasoline to your specifications, and so little native production in CA!
And you thought that would cost you NOTHING in the long run?
Time to pay the piper.
You asked for this joyous, government controlled energy system that mandates so much and that don’t come free ya’know?
ajacksonian on October 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Its UE who is trying to manipulate things. The fault behind the California gas price surge is the fault of California and its war on
big oilrefineries. The rest of the country is paying the price because oil is being shifted west to satisfy California.cozmo on October 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM
That’s exactly why I left California. California has increasingly become a series of expensive islands of safety in a sea of trouble. It is essentially economic segregation.
claudius on October 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM
This is what Barky wants, so why is anyone surprised?
SouthernGent on October 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM
News Flash! Nancy Pelosi blames Obama for high gas prices:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFl6bxxDW3c
Stu Gotts on October 6, 2012 at 2:58 PM
California asked for it, and now they got it. If it were only CA then we could laugh at them, but the rest of us won’t be far behind.
DFCtomm on October 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM
I think you mean a fire-retardant suit, just sayin’.
BillH on October 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM
Maybe you should work on your empathy skills, or at least your cognitive reasoning skills. There are many reasons why somebody might need to drive a larger vehicle, reasons that aren’t readily apparent when you make your snap judgement at the pump. If you saw me with my minivan and two kids you would probably have no empathy for me, either, but we really do need a minivan. My husband is 6′ 8″ and we have two children in rear-facing car seats. A minivan was THE ONLY vehicle that would fit my husband and both car seats safely. It is my primary vehicle and my husband drives a small SUV, yet again, the only vehicle besides a minivan he was able to fit in safely when he bought it in 2001. Would we prefer to drive vehicles with better gas mileage? Absolutely, but we will not compromise safety to do so. My father-in-law, who is 6′ 2″ drives a mini cooper, which is supposedly the best low-mileage car for tall people, but when my husband drives it he feels that his legs are crammed in.
vermillionsky on October 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Well, conservatives in CA, go flip NV …
MeatHeadinCA on October 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Those hapless saps in California can’t blame their high cost on Bush…but, hey …vote for Obama again…that’s your ticket !! Sorry dopes voting democrat.
and don’t forget, Obama’s Sec of
Energy is just fine with $9 gas
BigSven on October 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Obama Wanted High Gas Prices…Gradually (2008 Election Campaign)
They voted Obama, now they can pay for it.
Yakko77 on October 6, 2012 at 3:31 PM
The problem is that some people are getting way more out of the government than others, and they don’t appear to be concerned with gas prices.
Like this fine lady.
DFCtomm on October 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I don’t know, maybe they are. Such tactics are the norm in the Age of Obama.
forest on October 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM
O.o
*sigh* I suppose it’s kinda nice to have a California – we have a good example of what happens when you put the loony left in charge, and the rest of us don’t have to be affected by it.
AndStatistics on October 6, 2012 at 3:51 PM
Lets see…..
When gas his 4 bones a gallon, tools like Pelosi and Boxer were screaming for an investigation.
Now, in thier home state, not a peep.
God, I hate them….
BallisticBob on October 6, 2012 at 3:51 PM
FIFM.
BallisticBob on October 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Which is why I think Obama might still pull off a win. There are a LOT of voters like that one.
Yakko77 on October 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM
More like .. “If people don’t smarten up enough in responding to the problems government creates….. if we don’t bow to some manchild and his party in DC who want to be king and literally rule out lives, destroy everything good people have built with their own two hands then morons like that won’t have any sympathy!”
JellyToast on October 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM
My gas price went from $4.01 on Monday to $4.59 today.
This is the fault of the CARB czars and EPA czars, UNELECTED bureaucrats who have decided that we have to have different blends of gas in different seasons, and the seasons start when they say they do. Yes, the idiots here voted in Dems, but they didn’t vote in this nonsense.
This is IPAB, folks. What we are going through in CA is coming soon to you in energy and health care.
Meanwhile, our czars dither.
PattyJ on October 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Go hunting man. That’s two tanks of gas and let’s say it’s a 16 gal tank at $5.50 a gallon. That’s $180 for gas and what did you budget for gas when you were applying for the tag?
It’s probably only a difference of 60 bucks!
Vince on October 6, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Here’s your ad Romney: Tight shot on a “forward” shirt, showing the Obama campaign slogan. Slowly pan out to reveal the wearer, trudging wearily from their vehicle, abandoned at a gas station with $6 gas. Quick zoom back to the shirt, with a question mark added: Forward?
TexasDan on October 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM
WAIT? WHAT?
This is the same reaction LibTard® Obammy voters will have in 2016 if/when the IRS-driven “healthcare” bill doo-doo hits the fan.
8thAirForce on October 6, 2012 at 4:33 PM
“I can’t believe this! $5.79 a gallon? Oh my God!”
Get used to the high prices. Obama and our energy czar Steven Chu would gladly see gasoline at European prices of $8 ~ $10 a gallon as proven by Chu’s own words.
RJL on October 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Hey look at the bright side. If it goes up another couple bucks, Chevy Volts will be a cost competitive vehicle option!
We won.
KMC1 on October 6, 2012 at 4:59 PM
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