i live in a small northern cal. coastal town..out of no where gas is increasing...why?

Answer 1

In many places, the winter is starting to give way to spring. Gas prices always go up when it gets warmer because there is a higher demand.

Of course, this isn't the only reason. There are a myriad of other social, political and economic factors that influence gas prices.

Answer 2

The cost of gas would be a great deal cheaper if the US would use its own oil resources and its own (new) oil refineries. Currently, no new refinery has been built in the US for at least 20 years. Even if they do ship enough oil over from foreign sources, the refineries can not handle the load because they have not been updated in years. Buying refined oil from overseas is just as costly, if not more.

I hate to say it, but any metropolitan area will have a higher cost on fuel due to competition in the district, as well as a higher demand, so the previous post was correct. Also, the clean energy requirement in CA will boost fuel prices, though I had assumed that that would be more for industrial and commercial applications, rather than cars.

But if the cost of gas is increasing just in your town, there could be local problems coming in to play. Perhaps the local gas supplier is having transportation problems, or maybe CA did place a tax/cost penalty on their gas. I'm not so knowledgeable about recent events in the CA energy industry.

Answer 3

Ahh my friend...
the increase in gas prices don't just come out of no where. Oh no, they come from lots of different wonderful places. Like.....the foreign countries (who mostly by the way dont like us) and they charge as much as the market will bear, then there is the companies who acually drill the oil and then ship it and refine it etc. You know these guys as Mobil/Gulf and a bunch more. They are the companies that give their CEO's 5-10-20 million dollars BONUS each year for being soooo good at what they do. Then lets not leave out big government who lets big business do it to us.
....Land of the free? Not any more.

Answer 4

Didn't 1973 get your attention or maybe you forgot or you've never previously learned petrol products were once previously
nearly exhausted in the USA. Not just your little hamlet but from San Francisco to New York City. In recent years Red China has been buying all available oil. What are you going to do about it?
In 1973 money could not buy petrol products. There was none
to replace what was sold. Get used to the concept.

Answer 5

Doesn't matter where in California you are, the clean air laws of the state make fuel there the highest in the nation, and constantly increasing. Move off the left coast. In Oklahoma we are below the $2 mark now.