https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-sky-high-gas-prices-Newsom-seeks-14551504.php
They're having the same debate on fuel price fixing / gouging as we are in BC, like almost word for word. :suspicious:
Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the California attorney general’s office Monday to investigate whether a “mystery surcharge” on gasoline prices in the state was caused by oil companies “misleading and overcharging” their customers.
“There is no identifiable evidence to justify these premium prices,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Attorney General Xavier Becerra. “If oil companies are engaging in false advertising or price fixing, then legal action should be taken to protect the public.”
The commission’s report said its investigators “concluded that the primary cause of the residual price increase is simply that California’s retail gasoline outlets are charging higher prices than those in other states.”
Newsom requested the analysis in April, as gas prices soared above $4 per gallon in California.
Much of the difference in California’s higher prices can be attributed to extra costs from environmental regulations, such as a low-carbon requirement designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and a cap-and-trade program for polluters. State taxes, including new fees to fund road repairs that took effect in 2017, are also a factor.
But the Energy Commission, which released its analysis Monday, found that the margin between retail gasoline prices and wholesale costs rose at a faster rate in California in recent years than it did in the rest of the country.
They're having the same debate on fuel price fixing / gouging as we are in BC, like almost word for word. :suspicious: