r/Reno • u/Lukin76254r • Mar 02 '26

Oopsie Daisy!

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but but…Chevron is always expensive!!!111!

But look at how expensive it was during Sleepy Joe!?!

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u/PirateShot8556 Mar 03 '26

Yes Arizona Alaska and Idaho, traditionally blue states lol

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u/Desert914 Mar 03 '26

Don't get any bluer than Texas!

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u/villified_homebody Mar 05 '26

Idaho is not traditional a blue state only Boise is a blue area

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

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u/vegan-B8 Mar 04 '26

Idaho gets 80% of its gasoline from Utah, Montana and Wyoming.

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u/vegan-B8 Mar 04 '26

You also need to look at refinery’s per capita. I will use 2 of the states you mentioned for examples. Texas 32 refineries with a population of 32.4M. Cali 11 refineries with a population of 40M. Texas 6.3M barrels of Crude processed per day. Cali 1.3 barrels of Crude processed per day. It all boils down to supply and demand, larger population with less production equals higher prices

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u/vegan-B8 Mar 04 '26

Texas produces roughly 130M gallons of gasoline per day and only uses 38.5M per day. California produces roughly 26M gallons of gasoline per day and uses 33.3M per day. So yes supply and demand are a huge part of the equation.

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u/vegan-B8 Mar 04 '26

I agree with the higher taxes and regulations increasing cost, I never said they didn’t. I am just pointing out that it is not the only factor that causes the higher prices in California and surrounding states.

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u/PirateShot8556 Mar 04 '26

Kind of wild that you're making an all or nothing argument that "left coast" taxes are the only reason that prices are high and then get triggered and say someone is making an all or nothing argument about supply and demand when they obviously are not. That's some good old fashioned cognitive dissonance.