New Forbes Piece Out Now: High Blue State Gasoline Prices – New Study Details the Causes
Why are drivers in California, Oregon, Washington and other blue states are paying so much more at the pump? A powerful new report from the Institute for Energy Research lays it out clearly.
Key points from @IERenergy's “The Pacific Premium” study:
⚡️Policy Choices Drive the Gap: Blue states led by Democrats have enacted high fuel taxes, carbon taxes, aggressive environmental regs, and low-carbon fuel standards that directly inflate prices. These are deliberate decisions, not accidents.
⚡️West Coast Stands Out: California’s prices top the nation: even higher than Hawaii. Oregon has zero refineries and imports everything. Washington and California face refining capacity decline due to policy pressure.
⚡️Blue vs. Red Reality: States with Republican leadership generally show lower gasoline and diesel prices. Producer states with strong infrastructure enjoy better affordability. Elections have consequences.
⚡️California Specifics: Special reformulated gasoline, refinery closures (down to 7, with more planned), heavy reliance on foreign imports, and pipeline restrictions all compound costs. Affordability isn’t the priority: climate goals are.
⚡️Quote from IER President Tom Pyle: “Every passage of a fuel tax or carbon tax… is passed on to consumers… state energy policies matter.”
Gasoline prices reflect real trade-offs in state governance. This isn’t about Big Oil or distant events: it’s about intentional policy at the state level.
Link in the following post.
🚨 NEW: The Liberal Media repeatedly says that SOCIALISTS are taking over the Democrat party, not COMMUNISTS.
But why won't the media report these FACTS ⁉️
@SatAmericaFNC ⬇️
Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies.
For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points:
1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense.
2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office.
3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating.
4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B.
5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out.
6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI.
9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police.
10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes.
Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.
A progressive Democrats- Socialist Senator has proposed a $25 minimum wage. The dirty little secret is that’s so illegal immigrants can support their whole extended family on a fast food job that teenagers used to fill.
But now that fast food meal costs $34 for 2 sandwiches , large fries and a large soda.
This jerk wants every youth job to be eliminated. Or conversely, for no one to ever eat out again
More riddles for @RoKhanna. The President of El Salvador came to the same conclusion as DOGE and celebrated the shutdown of USAID. Are you accusing the President who reduced his country’s murder rate by 95% of supporting the murder of children?
🚨ELIZABETH WARREN: "Check my website, I don't take contributions from Big Pharma executives. I don't take any corporate PAC money."
REALITY: "Elizabeth Warren was the #2 recipient of money from Pharmaceuticals/ Health Products in the 2019-2020 election cycle, receiving $822,573."
James Talarico says "I think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity."
So, this guy hates Christianity, meat, guns, oil, thinks white people are inherently racist, that the Bible justifies abortion, and that God is 'non-binary.'
NYC Mayor Mamdani lashed out at Israel yesterday for eliminating Ahmed Wishah, an Al Jazeera “journalist”
Palestinians posted an obituary of Wishah, the journalist 👇🏻
24 hours ago, it was revealed that Hamas is torturing hundreds of Palestinians in hospitals and schools.
Not a word in the media about it.
Not a word from Cenk Uygur.
Not a word from the UN.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ActBlue just PLED THE 5TH and REFUSED to answer about getting foreign donations infiltrating US politics on behalf of Democrats
She wouldn't even refute getting RUSSIAN money! 🤯
ActBlue is a FRAUD group. Shut it down!
REP. JIM JORDAN: Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: How many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: Why did your entire legal team quit? Your in-house legal team?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
JORDAN: We won't keep you here all day, but let me just do one more. Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?
ACTBLUE: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
Absolutely insane.
I think of how my Dem colleagues invoked this woman as a victim during a House debate last week on a bill that will ironically allow people like her to use the words of others that "annoy" or "harass" them to file criminal charges against the person whose words they didn't like.
OMG
Jen Lima, a school board member at North Kingstown School Department in Rhode Island shared a letter to Austin Metcalf’s dad blaming him for his son’s murder because he “failed to teach him that black boys have boundaries.”
You can contact her here: (401) 236-7220
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Governor candidate Steve Hilton just revealed the stunning reality of California fraud: They ALLOW mail-in ballots to BACKDATE by HAND so they can be counted late, and not invalid
"It's NOT just the postmark. YOU CAN HAND-WRITE THE DATE!"
"Just to be really clear: you can BACKDATE YOUR BALLOT."
"BY HAND."
"And it will be counted."
"That's how insane this system is."
This is MADNESS!! 🤯
BILLY BUSH: "That is OUTRAGEOUS."
@hotmicsbilly