53 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

    2. No the voters are. There’s a serious disconnect from reality here. It’s just like in BC where everyone wants action on muh climate change including carbon taxes but they want low gas prices. It’s beyond idiotic. The dippers here are also acting all surprised that our gas prices are the highest in the country. If they were honest they’d be touting this fact because this is the damn goal.

      My barometer of the thinking of the average joe is my mother in law. She was astonished when I outlined that our high prices on dairy and poultry were due to a government mandated monopoly that rips off consumers to make a select group of farmers rich. She was equally astonished that the carbon taxes, high fuel taxes and obvious lack of support for new refineries and pipelines is why we pay so much for gas.

      Not one politician ever makes these very simple facts known. If the BC liberals were smart they’d run on lowering gas prices and food prices and actually propose ways of doing both things. They’d be absolutely vilified as being “populists” but they’d win in the largest landslide in history.

  2. The Socialist California Democrats need to discover the proper enemies of the people for the enraged people to punish. The National Socialists in 1930’s Germany had the Jews as their scapegoats. The Socialist Soviets had the Kulaks, Ukrainians, Cossacks, and anyone else that aroused the anger or suspicion of Josef Stalin and his murderous henchmen for scapegoats. If Stalin had lived another few months in 1953, his last victims besides the Jewish Doctors of the Doctors Plot would have been “Rootless Cosmopolitans of the USSR,” AKA All The Russian Jews.

    The Democrats will point their angry masses at the Evil OIL Companies to scapegoat their ridiculous tax and regulatory policies. It is never the Socialists fault.

    1. Since Jews formed more than half of the first Russian politburo, and were instrumental in the Soviet revolutions in Russia, Poland, Germany, Hungary, and created the Frankfurt School to spread cultural Marxism into the west, it would be kind of poetic if the revolutions they caused eventually ate them.

      1. “… it would be kind of poetic if the revolutions they caused eventually ate them.” The Nihilistic 125 alternative genders are already attacking each other, even before the final collapse. Maybe the 7th century guys will help them finish each other off.

  4. Jesus Murphy did they go to the John Blow Me Horgan skool of F**king Stupid Politicians?
    When the big quake hits, and the longer the wait, the bigger it will be, they’ll get no help, no money and no sympathy.

    1. Better yet! High gasoline prices reduce freeway traffic! I LOVE IT when the poor drivers cannot afford to drive as much. It makes up for the fact that so much$$ of our gasoline taxes are diverted away from building and maintaining freeways … thus INTENTIONALLY causing gridlock.

      Once again, government policies hurting the poor and middle class.

    2. Steve, while I agree that global warming supporters should pay a lot more for gasoline, I’m not sure higher prices deter people from driving.

      In 2008 BC introduced a carbon tax. That year BC consumed 4.6 billion litres of gasoline. In 2017, BC consumed 5.2 billion litres of gasoline. Even though the carbon tax went up.

  6. They bought into the idea that only the “bad” people will feel the pain if the program de jour is implemented to address the fashionable cause.
    Just like the election of Donald Trump, they still can’t seem to figure out why they are running out of other people’s money.

  7. That works out to $1.05 a litre. I saw gas for $1.30 in Ottawa yesterday. Sucks to have our politicians.

    2. Converting US to Cdn $ that comes to about $1.31 Cdn a liter. What do they have to complain about?

      1. I live in Ontario. When we hit peak oil prices in 2008, we paid about 1.45 for gasoline. In the past year I have paid a low of .80 a liter, and today it is 1.30. In 2008, oil was (in American dollars) twice what it is now. We’re being hosed.

  8. Sounds a lot like John Horgan fulminating against gas prices in BC. The carbon tax he supports is supposed to raise prices so that people use less fuel, isn’t it? So when prices rise by themselves isn’t that even better? And when Alberta turns off the tap that will be better still, won’t it? We will have achieved a carbon free nirvana.

    If I didn’t know better I might suspect that Horgan is a hypocritical
    Politician talking out of both sides of his mouth.

    1. Horgan? Is he the guy that:
      -Blocks pipelines, pipelines are at capacity.
      -Wants more oil shipped to BC………..

  9. Yea. $4.01 USD / 3.78L….?? pah, not even close to Latte sipping Left Coast of $5.39 USD/Gallon. (1.90/l). Leading the race…..good for you..!!!

    As such, I expect all of you Eco-Imbeciles in the lower Mainland to rejoice.. Your strenuous financial donations & efforts are saving the entire planet..!! SMH – morons.

    …..you ALL voted for Socialism & Eco-Stupidity..?? May it pound you up your backsides in spades until you figure it out that they could give a rats (_i_) what you pay at the pumps or for anything else for that matter….but I’m not holding my breath.

    Environmentalism eh..?? yet while you hold Alberta Hostage, nary a tiny squeak of being the Largest supplier of Coal to China, nor squat said ’bout the 500,000bbls of Alaskan Crude that sails your “pristine” Coastline Daily into Juan de Fuca St.

    ..pah, the BIG ONE indeed – a biblical up yours from Hollyweird to YVR.

  10. Why worry about Gas prices….All cars will be electric by 2035 making gas obsolete…Do they know something that they are not telling folks? Cigarette tax, GAS tax need to be replaced, or the Civil service won’t get their pensions.. Let’s just Tax Carbon and let Gore keep the count… that was easy.. Wait! with only 12 years left for humanity no cars will be needed in 2035

    The CAGW crowd are squealing like stuck pigs… That means the end is near for the hysterical crowd now that they only have 12 years left to wallow in misery…. I will spend my 12 years enjoying all the good things in life…. Jackie D & Cheese steak for lunch & dinner…. yep! I will do my own thing

    1. If we convert to electric cars I predict we will have to pay:

      a) an electricity tax. 🙁
      b) a high vehicle registration fee each year.

      After all we’ll have to reduce electricity usage, cause the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow when we need the electricity.

      1. Worse. They want to monitor where and when you’re driving 24/7 and then charge you a per km tax bill every month. A mandatory government GPS in every vehicle…but do not worry, good citizen, your privacy is sacred and the info collected will all be confidential. As safe and protected from leaks as a judge’s application to the Supreme Court of Canada. So secure that a mandatory gun registry would never be used to confiscate firearms after a flood in Alberta.

        Governments and bureaucrats are pros at maintaining privacy despite any political temptations to misuse sensitive information for their own benefit.

        Maintaining the citizens trust in our institutions is essential. :-))

    2. S-S, Horgan passed legislation banning sale of all fossil fuels and the vehicles that use them as of 2040, so at that date it’s eeeeelectric or pedal. At the same time he’s blaming Big Oil for not building refineries in B.C. to process more crude and bring the prices down.
      As it takes about five years and $4 billion to build a modern refinery,plus at least two or three years to go through the environmental process, the earliest a new refinery could be completed would be in 2028. As it takes about 20 years for the refinery to make a profit after the huge startup costs, and they’d have only 12 years of operating , so would suffer a massive loss,not to even mention the costs of tearing the refinery down and returning the land to a pristine state, probably another $billion or so.

      Horgan tabled a Bill in 2007 to have the B.C. utilities commission regulate fuel prices, which never got past the initial reading, but now he’s in Government, he’s not so keen on the idea, which is SO typical of the Left. They love to make fantastic suggestions and bitch endlessly in opposition, but in government do absolutely SFA positive for the Province.

      1. “Horgan passed legislation banning sale of all fossil fuels and the vehicles that use them as of 2040, so at that date it’s eeeeelectric or pedal.”

        Perhaps Bennett Buggies will be back in style:

        “A prominent symbol of the devastation of the Great Depression in Canada: an automobile, stripped of its engine (the owner could no longer afford to operate it) and led by a horse.

        The Bennett Buggy was also a poetic symbol of economic reversal – from the modern era to the pre-industrial era.”

        Rickshaws, sleds dogs..lots of options. New, old joke: what did environmentalists use before they had horse drawn carriages?
        Answer – Automobiles

      2. “At the same time he’s blaming Big Oil for not building refineries in B.C. to process more crude and bring the prices down.”
        It was NDP Barrett that made the deal with PETE to buy the GAS @ the Alberta well-head,,and more than tripled the price at the US WA border, he got a huge kickback when a refinery was built in BC ( I think it went bankrupt before producing anything) Not much on the net…

        I have a book somewhere that was written by the CEO of Pete (Phillips) who built the Trans-mountain Pipeline and got hosed by Barrett… Lots of detail on how the Canadian Federal politicians fix Prices….

        Consumer distribution is very competitive…Not that easy to make money.. During the Senate (Price) hearings in ~2009 several Oil Companies including EXXON Mobil threatened to get out of the consumer Market….

        JMHO

  11. $4.00 USD for a US gallon is equivalent to $1.49 CDN/litre.
    The US gallon is 80% of the size of our imperial gallon. I used an exchange rate of $1.35.

    1. while in Florida this winter my calculations showed that an equivalent volume of gas was approximately .75 cents cheaper per US gallon, converted to Canadian dollars.

    1. From the article: “The government wants your gas to be more expensive, period.” It should read: ” The government wants EVERYTHING to be more expensive, period.”

    2. Ha, ha, I do not feel sorry for them as they voted for this crap. Like steakman says, “a biblical up yours”.

  13. Easy Peasy, California socialists. Pass a state law banning the drilling, processing, and the use products derived from crude oil. Then you won’t be worried about the high cost of crude oil products.

  14. In 1992, just prior to my retirement from the US Navy, a gallon of unleaded regular in San Diego County was $1.42 per US gallon while in Ohio during the same period the price was $0.92 per gallon. The current mismatch of California vs Everyone Else reveals the same 33% “California Premium” on a gallon of gas. Nothing has really changed in California in the ensuing years except that the “magic number” of $4.00 per gallon has been, once again, breached allowing the righteous anger of the citizenry to give the politicians something to beat upon the evil oil conglomerates.

  15. NIMBYism and going green have costs, who knew? What amuses me is politicians selective amnesia. It like they don’t realize that they have the ability to lower their taxes, fees and regulations to make life easier for overburdened taxpayers and businesses. Politicians get that they’re usually the ones responsible for the mess of unaffordability, right? Increased prices for gasoline, heat, electricity, houses, rent etc. are almost always due to government policies, either intentionally or because of unintended consequences.

  16. Left Coast poseur greens all want a carbon free environment imposed at gun point on everyone and are doing their best to bring it on but not one of them is willing to actually live the lifestyle that would entail. Ignorance or evil are the only two possible explanations.

  17. Classic modern kleptocrats.
    Create a problem,where none actually exists.
    Solve imaginary problem ,creating dozens of real problems.
    Government solution?
    Blame everyone else for the mess.
    Then insist that only “more government” will solve the problems they created.
    It is an endless cycle, bureaus expand endlessly and the citizen gets crushed.
    Looks good on the citizens of the Left Coast.

  18. The politicians of kalifornia, like most, seem to be totally unaware of cause and effect. Then, when it bites them in the butt, they get this innocent look and say: “who, me?” My job before retirement was working as a gasoline blender in a central US oil refinery. It usually takes 7 or 8 components to make a tank of gasoline. Kallie state specs call for a gold plated gasoline mix. The components are just more expensive. They want a high price to curb driving. They have it. They also want clean air. They don’t have it until they legislate combustible engines to the scrap yard. Keep on keepin’ on, komrade.

    1. “They don’t have it until they legislate combustible engines to the scrap yard. ”

      Then they can turn gasoline fired cars into coal fired electrical cars.

  19. It’s simple and painfully obvious what’s going on here – the politicians don’t want business getting any cut of their action. The politicians wanted to jack it up over $4/gallon with nothing but their taxes, and they get angry when they see money going to someone else.

  20. Diesel fuel in Needles, Californicate was $4.70 a gallon in early April when we went thru. That was just off I-40, I think.
    No idea what it is today but I assume it has not dropped any great amount.

  21. California has politicians that know more about gas formulations than professional chemists.
    Thus they write laws requiring specially formulated fuel, where the formula changes throughout the year.
    Then they add various fees and taxes at state, county and city level.

    Then they act surprised when the cost starts to bite.
    They should probably stick to being petrochemical engineers rather than also trying to be financial analysts.

  23. And here in Ontario, Double-cross Doug has increased the mandatory ethanol content in gasoline. Thereby demonstrating that:
    (a) he’s just as green as turdo la doo, and
    (b) farmers or green parasites, he’ll lick any arse.

    1. “Low-blend ethanol from corn produces about 3 to 4 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline. Low-blend made from wood or agricultural cellulosic materials would produce 6 to 8 percent fewer emissions compared with gasoline.”

      https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/alternative-fuels/biofuels/3493

      Jamie, I’m not really clear on the benefits or downside of increasing ethanol in gasoline beyond a minor reduction of 1 to 2% in mileage, surely not a bad price to pay for decreased emissions as noted above.
      For my car that would mean about 9km less on a full tank.

      I am of the opinion that percentages that small, in either emission or mileage reductions, will not stop climate change. Nothing will. However, from a purely political standpoint it may keep the enviro maniacs at bay by demonstrating good husbandry and intent in terms of this new governments contribution to emission reduction.
      Posturing, for sure, but how else do you shut the morons up?

      1. “Jamie, I’m not really clear on the benefits or downside of increasing ethanol in gasoline beyond a minor reduction of 1 to 2% in mileage, surely not a bad price to pay for decreased emissions as noted above.
        For my car that would mean about 9km less on a full tank. ”

        There are ZERO benefits. As a matter of fact, it is counter-productive. Corn-sourced ethanol is energy negative – that means that it takes more energy to produce a liter of ethanol than the energy that liter produces.

        And there’s another reason it’s counter-productive. All across this part of Ontario farmers are in a furious rush to clear and convert forests and scrub into arable land. It is practically impossible to do a 360 in the countryside without seeing a track hoe or two tearing away at what used to be perfectly good wildlife habitat. The land is being cleared because per-acre prices have undergone an insane increase in the last ten years, and that is largely due to the fact that 40 percent of North American corn is used for ethanol production. So the mandatory ethanol content in gasoline functions exactly as a subsidy.

        And Ford just increased the ethanol content….that’ll help….excavator sales.

  24. Let’s see California and BC are anti-oil but pro poop.

    Victoria BC dumps their raw sewage in the ocean. Mr Floaties anyone? 🙁

    While San Francisco just dumps poop on the street. 🙁 🙁

    The wonderful priorities of the left.

  25. Didn’t Trump increase ethanol in gasoline to 15%? If he hasn’t done it already he will as an election promise.

  26. It should be “O Sweet Saint of Andreas” to avoid the double use of the word Saint and San.

  27. whall shyt martha. I finally figured it out.
    why so many motor vehicle drivers threaten to run my over on my 10 speed raleigh bicycle.
    that I bought new 40+ years ago, about 2500 in today’s dollars.
    they’re JEALOUS of the fact I have paid precisely ZERO dollars and ZERO cents for gas the entire time I’ve owned the thing.
    and get very angry about the fact it costs them vastly more in gasoline per year than the bike is worth now.
    and then in certain traffic conditions I catch up with them and pick my nose on purpose. heh heh heh.

    on a good day I can keep up to the stop & go bus.
    bike thieves ignore it. they go for the mountain bikes. got 2 of those, just put a trailer hitch on one of them to go with the bike trailer.

    I highly recommend a bicycle for such things as cardio conditioning, managing blood sugar,
    finding useful stuff on the road, curbside etc.
    and saving oooooh, about 8,000 bucks a year on the usual ‘digital high tech auto engineering’ crapola RIPOFF.
    not to mention the gasoline which is gonna get pricier still, seeing as Big Oil will use the ‘psychological effect’ to jack prices up more.

    like I posted last week, I might have applied to join the hard right wing club if youse didnt have such a HATE ON for bicyclists.

    1. I am a hard right guy and a hard driving cyclist/swimmer/runner. I cannot stand cyclists in traffic the snobby bastards. What kind of idiot subjects their lungs and bloodstream to billions of soot particles from car exhaust? Stupid people like cyclists. I do my biking in parks and offroad and stay out of traffic. If 5 tonnes of metal moving at 100kph doesn’t kill you quickly then the PM2.5 will certainly do you in eventually.

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