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| Pat Thurston |
Simplicity in its purest form can be wholly worthy, entertaining, informative and cool. No razzle dazzle is needed and the public can enjoy its windfall as it did today (Tuesday) in the most unassuming way.
Pat Thurston on KGO did a very concise, pointed, matter-of-fact interview with a consumer watch advocate named Jamie Court. It could have been your standard, garden variety twenty-minute or so interview on newstalk radio but in this case, it was far from that; as you all know, California; the Bay Area especially, is getting royally ripped off at the gas pumps. "Why the hell are we paying almost two bucks more than the rest of the country?"
Some of it is obvious, some of it is especially not which Court outlined in his chat with Thurston, who did a heck of a job in the interview, indicating her own frustration with being screwed like the rest of us.
Go to KGO's website and Thurston as I'm assuming they will post the interview later today/tonight; it's well a listen.
There were congressional hearing on this awhile ago. The oil companies said they use “zone pricing”. Refine in the Bay Area and pay $4 a gallon, ship at a cost to Reno and pay $3.25 a gallon. Why, because they can.
ReplyDelete> There were congressional hearing on this
Delete> awhile ago.
There have been congressional hearings on this since I was in diapers. They spend money on these hearings, file the transcripts away somewhere, and things go back on as normal. Waste of taxpayer money on top of stealing from us at the pump: insult and then injury.
Even various Target stores in the same county charge different prices based on what they can get from the local clientele.
ReplyDeleteNo, probably based on what they're paying in rent.
DeleteRent is on average 60 percent of a business' cost, even a big business like Target.
Whenever I go to a SuperDuper Burger in an outlying county the prices are on average $2-2.50 lower than the stores in Berkeley/Emeryville/SF. Rent is half, that's why.
Pat and Rothman (maybe a nod to Chip) are the only reasons to listen to that station. Both are very sharp and do their homework and it shows. My only criticism of Rothman is he spends way too mich time arguing with some of the more obtuse Trumpturds who flood the phonelines every night with their regurgitated talking points straight from Faux news. Hearing a 15 minute shouting match with dimbulb caller after dimbulb caller gets tiresome after a while. Move on!
ReplyDeleteWhere is greasy Gavin in all of this. He caps rental increases but doesn’t do shift for gas prices or PGE turning off our electricity. WTF? Recall him!
ReplyDeleteIm driving across the country right now, and the cheapest gas so far has been $2.09 in TX. ALmost everywhere else it is around $2.19-2.29.
ReplyDelete"Thurston, who did a heck of a job in the interview, indicating her own frustration with being screwed like the rest of us."
ReplyDeleteYou're HILARIOUS, Rich. Want to know why, in part, we have the highest price for gas? Because Californians WANTED it that way.
We had the chance to eliminate a portion of the gas tax and we voted NO. We had the chance to not allow future gas tax increases without our approval, and we voted NO.
Every tax initiative, we vote YES. Every gas tax, we vote YES.
The California mentality: Should we increase property taxes? YES! Should we raise gas taxes? OH YES! How about bridge tolls, should we increase those? YOU BETCHA!
And then what do Californians do in response? Bitch and moan about the high cost of living while continuing to vote for every tax increase, every tax initiative, and every money-starved politician.
Getting screwed at the pump is exactly what the CA voters wanted. Lather, rinse, repeat. Keep the cycle going, CA. And keep bitching about it.
Morons.
Taxes are what we pay to live in a civilized society, defended by the best Military in the World. The morons are the people running PGE! The morons are Hillary and her campaign leaders who lost an election to of all people, Trump.
DeleteTWATN...AWB! More proof, Rosemary today!!!
Yawn, as usual no mention of California's criminally high gas tax, most of which is never used to actually fix the fucking roads. One of a thousand ways blissfully ignorant California voters get reamed by the scumbags they put in office over and over again.
ReplyDeleteBUT, there was total confusion about Power shut down. Some guy from San Jose called and said his C-pap shut down would kill him. Uh, no, there is no shut down in San Jose. Pat's producer only needed to check the maps on PGE web site.
ReplyDeleteI would think by now you have probably figured out that the power did go in San Jose. Guess you can't trust PG&E's website, what a surprise.
ReplyDeleteIn fact yesterday there was a live press conference from a San Jose City manager, talking about the shot down, ect.