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hunter

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1. The big oil companies want to enshitify California's gasoline supply.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Jul 24, 2025, 01:05 PM

Jul 24

They'd sell us worse gasoline -- more toxic, more polluting -- for the same price or higher than we pay now.

Finding a refiner who is willing to meet California standards for gasoline is a lesser-of-two evils situation.

If California falls back to federal gasoline standards and the lack of enforcement of these standards common in other states it will be a dirtier place.

In a better world we'd be closing refineries because the market for gasoline was collapsing.

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In rare move, California steps in to find buyer for Valero refinery to avoid closure, sources say [View all] Eugene Jul 24 OP

The big oil companies want to enshitify California's gasoline supply. hunter Jul 24 #1

Wish the state could buy it and run it as a non-profit ... Auggie Jul 24 #2