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October 06, 2012

Come to California, Romney
— CAC

Mitt, I know my state isn't going to vote for you. It won't even be close. But for the rest of the country, I implore you to come. Come to the Shell station on Olympic and Fairfax in Los Angeles, where the current price for regular is $5.09 a gallon. And rising.

Thanks to the California Air Resources Board, our gasoline is required to have "higher standards" than the other 49 states, and can be refined at only a few facilities. One of those facilities caught fire weeks ago, and without a backup plan, now we get to enjoy $100 fillups for fullsized cars.

This is what the rest of the country will look like if the genius ideas of the ARB spread via an Obama EPA. This is the end result of environmental idiocy and energy regulation. I give it four days before Angelenos quit visting my big rock on Wilshire and start trying to refine tar out of the La Brea pits.

Your visit doesn't even require a speech. The visit can be just you pointing at the (ever changing) price sign.

(On a positive note, I think Proposition 30 (Brown's genius tax hike) is going to lose badly with prices like this. Always an upside, even in hell I suppose.)

Posted by: CAC at 09:12 AM | Comments (85)
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1 YES!

Posted by: PJ at October 06, 2012 09:18 AM (DQHjw)

2 First!

Posted by: Grover's at October 06, 2012 09:18 AM (Kh0Kx)

3 Drat!

Posted by: Grover's at October 06, 2012 09:19 AM (Kh0Kx)

4 I'm at the opposite end of I-10 (literally) but that `00% includes CA, too.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 06, 2012 09:19 AM (piMMO)

5 100%

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 06, 2012 09:19 AM (piMMO)

6 Up-twinkles!

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at October 06, 2012 09:19 AM (IlZPo)

7 You, dear thread, have been stepped upon

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 06, 2012 09:20 AM (piMMO)

8 Prop 30 lose? Forget it, CAC... it's Clownifornia.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows poor people don't know how to dress themselves at October 06, 2012 09:20 AM (AZGON)

9 Finally, I'm first. What's my prize?

Oh, and the EPA is involved too, Mitt, so you can show their high handedness too.

http://tinyurl.com/8qz6gvs

Posted by: PJ at October 06, 2012 09:21 AM (DQHjw)

10 The Californians who keep putting these lefty clowns in charge say that it's proof that oil companies need to be nationalized

Don't ask them how that worked in Venezuela though

Posted by: kbdabear at October 06, 2012 09:22 AM (wwsoB)

11 Show up and challenge Feinstein to a debate... heh.

Posted by: hit feinstein at October 06, 2012 09:24 AM (LpQbZ)

12 Here in my part of San Diego (the part that will give elect Pubs), regular is $4.599/gallon.

Come Mitt, come.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at October 06, 2012 09:25 AM (kqqGm)

13 Finally, I'm first. What's my prize?

Oh, and the EPA is involved too, Mitt, so you can show their high handedness too.

****

Don't forget the Teamsters and the ILWU.

I've been screaming about this shit for 4 years now.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 06, 2012 09:26 AM (piMMO)

14 Internals probably still show TFG with a 15 point lead in CA, otherwise the SCOAMF would have ordered a waiver of laws that forbid out of state gas sales to California.

Even the SCOAMF isn't going to risk supply dislocations and price hikes in other states to help a bunch of people who are going to vote for him anyway

Posted by: kbdabear at October 06, 2012 09:28 AM (wwsoB)

Copied from the thread below and pasted here, cause it's that good.

Re gas prices in CA, saw this from the Kos brain trust:

We have not built any new refineries in years. Refining capacity is a problem, we actually need our government to invest in building new refineries and perhaps lease them or use them as a pressure value to lower gas prices. We really need a government to act as a balance to the basic incompetence of the private sector in energy, we at some point will have a perfect storm of infrastructure failure and supply shortages that will cripple our economy.

Which garnered this response from a fellow juiceboxer:

if our govt is building refineries it should be for a nationalized public energy sector. the energy corps are rolling in money, and do not see the need to build or maintain their refineries. why should we build them for them?

Bless their hearts ....

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2012 09:29 AM (BAS5M)

16 California and Illinois wouldn't be doing this crazy shit if they hadn't been promised a bailout.

Posted by: Invictus at October 06, 2012 09:29 AM (OQpzc)

17 if our govt is building refineries it should be for a nationalized public energy sector. the energy corps are rolling in money, and do not see the need to build or maintain their refineries. why should we build them for them?

Bless their hearts .... Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2012 01:29 PM

Because nationalization worked so well in Venezuela, an oil producer that has to import their own gasoline

Posted by: kbdabear at October 06, 2012 09:31 AM (wwsoB)

18 8 Prop 30 lose? Forget it, CAC... it's Clownifornia. Posted by: George Orwell what knows poor people don't know how to dress themselves at October 06, 2012 01:20 PM

Yet they'll probably have no problem with Gov Moonbeam signing the Hollywood tax credit extension this week.

You know, those same Hollywood people who say they would pay more in taxes if the government would only tax them more?

For every dollar they spend on production in CA, they get a 25 cent tax credit.

What say you, Eva Longoria?

Posted by: kbdabear at October 06, 2012 09:34 AM (wwsoB)

19 Mexico did the same and they are sucking wind.

Posted by: Invictus at October 06, 2012 09:34 AM (OQpzc)

20 I think he is in LA today? It will be his 45th fundraiser on Air Force One (at $185k an hour of our money).

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, unbanned, ready to get this done at October 06, 2012 09:35 AM (baL2B)

21 They could make it look like an animated GIF, with a still shot of Romney pointing at the sign and those numbers going up, higher and higher. Maybe add some pinball sound effects.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 06, 2012 09:36 AM (RLZvP)

22 I meant Buhrock is in LA today. Guess it will sooth his raw wounds to be worshipped by Hollywood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, unbanned, ready to get this done at October 06, 2012 09:36 AM (baL2B)

23 What say you, Eva Longoria?

Posted by: kbdabear at October 06, 2012 01:34 PM

Leave Eva alone! She's helping me analyze Houston's coverage schemes

Posted by: Mark Sanchez at October 06, 2012 09:37 AM (wwsoB)

Well, obviously there are nefarious peoples working against Dear Leader Chavez's brill-aint plans to bring abundant and cheap gasoline to the masses.

btw - paid $3.41/gal this am. GasBuddy(dot)com says the cheapest in the area is $3.35/gal.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2012 09:38 AM (BAS5M)

25 Well Obama and Spike Lee claimed Bush hated New Orleans because its black. All Romney and his surrogates have to do is ask, "Does Obama hate California? Hates the poor of the state so much he wont waive EPA regulations Bush waived after Hurricane Katrina?"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 06, 2012 09:39 AM (VJCRJ)

26 21 They could make it look like an animated GIF, with a still shot of Romney pointing at the sign and those numbers going up, higher and higher. Maybe add some pinball sound effects.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at October 06, 2012 01:36 PM

Only I may make animated GIFs, and they won't be for the Confederate flag saluting Romney!!!

You are hereby banned from Planet Earth!

Posted by: Jazzy McBikeshorts at October 06, 2012 09:39 AM (wwsoB)

27 22 I meant Buhrock is in LA today. Guess it will sooth his raw wounds to be worshipped by Hollywood.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, unbanned, ready to get this done at October 06, 2012 01:36 PM

Let me kiss it and make it all better

Posted by: Kal Penn at October 06, 2012 09:40 AM (wwsoB)

28 #21, make that slot machine sounds. And remind voters the higher that prices goes, the more money Jerry Brown and the idiots in Sacramento get via gas taxes. That Gov. Brown and his buddies in CARB are taxing them into poverty.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 06, 2012 09:41 AM (VJCRJ)

29 $5.09 a gallon!!?? I've gotta drive right down there and get some! It's $5.59 up here in Santa Clarita.

Posted by: no one at October 06, 2012 09:52 AM (RN8PS)

30 Most expensive place(s) to buy gas in California? Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells. Probably $9 per gallon. Heh.

Posted by: 13times at October 06, 2012 09:53 AM (h6XiD)

31 californiagasprices.com

Posted by: 13times at October 06, 2012 10:00 AM (h6XiD)

"California Air Resources Board"

Wow. It's like a name straight out of Atlas Shrugged.

And the saddest part about it, is that they see themselves as being ahead of the rest of the country - that the rest of the country will catch up with their wisdom someday.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 06, 2012 10:00 AM (As94z)

33 4.75 a gallon in my little corner of Greece by the Pacific. Would love for a Mitt photo op and commercial...could matter in down ticket races in Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. We're a basket case here, but these states still have a glimmer of hope sometimes.

Posted by: jjshaka at October 06, 2012 10:01 AM (vT3kg)

34 CAC, I feel your pain here in NorCal. The 'rats have truly f***ed this beautiful state, sideways with a crate of flaming pineapples. Repeatedly. Screw Brown on 30 and GOTV for a yes on 32. The unions need a really big what for after what they have done here.

Posted by: eureka! at October 06, 2012 10:02 AM (cTjRR)

Somehow we have to let the "low information voter" know that there is literally $2TRILLION sitting on the sidelines just desperate to be put to use (creating jobs, and an overall better standard of living).

It's waiting for TFG to leave office, because they are afraid of how their investment will be undermined - if not stolen outright - by him.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 06, 2012 10:07 AM (As94z)

36 Definitely would be a smart move. He did it before when he came up to the bay area and gave his speech in front of Solyndra...

Posted by: Kramer at October 06, 2012 10:10 AM (kiwMG)

37 The North Korean invasion of Clownifornia can't get here soon enough.

Posted by: Fritz at October 06, 2012 10:13 AM (vm7ot)

38 Does the $9/gallon gas also mean Saudi is rooting for Romney? This is not your Clinton administration.

Posted by: Make My Day at October 06, 2012 10:18 AM (LpQbZ)

39 (On a positive note, I think Proposition 30 (Brown's genius tax hike) is going to lose badly with prices like this.)

Don't forget, there's also Prop 38.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 06, 2012 10:19 AM (tNO27)

40 This is what people living in SF/LA regions have done to the state.

I bet that 99.9% of our top tier elected state officials have never been to more than 3 counties north of Sacramento - unless they happened to drive north on I-5.

I'll also wager they can't name a city within each of the counties bordering Oregon.

Posted by: 13times at October 06, 2012 10:26 AM (h6XiD)

41 It's a plot.

They want us to be happy to pay $3.50 per gallon.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012, master of his domain at October 06, 2012 10:33 AM (he2LC)

42 I live in Commiefornia too.

Of course, every last local libtard is blaming "oil company greed" for the high prices at the pump, instead of blaming Commiefornia's insane environmental laws and refusal to allow new refineries.

Those of you who do NOT live in Commiefornia, and don't want the madness to spread from here to where you live, should immediately get up off your asses and go volunteer GOTV for the GOP. Right away. Liberal Democrats got California into its current fix and they'd be just as happy to arrange the same fix for you. Don't let them.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 06, 2012 10:33 AM (ymG7s)

43 Here in my part of San Diego (the part that will give elect Pubs), regular is $4.599/gallon. Come Mitt, come. Posted by: John P. Squibob at October 06, 2012 01:25 PM (kqqGm) What part is that- like Coronado or La Mesa or what? I'm pretty stuck here in East San Diego/Lemon Grove...

Posted by: Bill H at October 06, 2012 10:35 AM (3sZO1)

44 #21, I don't know when he's arriving, but he'll be attending a "Victory Concert" at the Nokia Theater tomorrow afternoon. By the sheerest of coincidences, the Wake Up America! rally, featuring speakers Dennis Prager and Bill Whittle and the band Madison Rising, will be taking place at the Westwood Federal Building at precisely the same time. If you can, please help send the electorate a message by attending this free, family friendly event. http://wakeupamerica2012.com/

Posted by: iceguy at October 06, 2012 10:37 AM (jlqk/)

45 "California and Illinois wouldn't be doing this crazy shit if they hadn't been promised a bailout."

Before Jerry Ford blew up his re-election hopes with his dumb comment about Poland in the debates, he did accomplish a few good things in office.

One of them was telling bankrupt libtard New York City to eff off, producing the classic headline, "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".

It would be gorgeous to read headlines two years from now saying,

"ROMNEY TO CALIFORNIA: BACK TO REALITY, BITCHES",

and

"RYAN TO ILLINOIS: THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BRINGING US THE SCOAMF"

A man can dream.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 06, 2012 10:40 AM (ymG7s)

46 Hey CAC, Obama's gonna be in Cali tomorrow and Monday. How about a giant protest rally instead? Get lots of people showing up with gas station price signs waving at him. That will get attention across the country as well as within Cali.

Posted by: rockmom at October 06, 2012 10:52 AM (qe2/V)

47 CARB hit parade:

Low sulfur diesel. Results included 1000's of injector O-ring failures. REPEALED

MTBE additive. Results include 100's of independent gas stations close, contaminated ground water, ruined jets on 2-stroke engines and lawyers suing private citizens for polluting aquifers with MTBE (lulz). REPEALED

CARB has always been a fucking train wreck. thank to ron reagen and pat brown.

Posted by: 13times at October 06, 2012 10:54 AM (h6XiD)

48 Rockmom, please see my post above.

Posted by: iceguy at October 06, 2012 10:56 AM (jlqk/)

49 Still shortages in the land of the Prius.

Posted by: Hidajunshinette at October 06, 2012 10:56 AM (20NzC)

50 The members of the Air Resources Board were appointed when Brown was governor the first time. They are supposed to serve on that board for only 8 years, I believe. They have never been replaced. They are what amounts to lifetime appointees who can pass what amounts to law without any interference from the representatives of the people.

None of the other 56 states has an air resources board. We don't need one either.

Posted by: crosspatch at October 06, 2012 10:57 AM (ZbLJZ)

51 Please come!!!! (But It's ok if you send Ryan instead.)

Posted by: LASue at October 06, 2012 11:02 AM (kUq7A)

52 Actually, Romney and Ryan have been to California several times. A couple of weeks ago Ryan was in Danville, Mountain View, and Modesto. Romney was at a fundraiser in near San Mateo a week or so ago, too. They have been out here but mostly in private fundraisers and not public appearances.

Posted by: crosspatch at October 06, 2012 11:03 AM (ZbLJZ)

53 "Here in my part of San Diego (the part that will give elect Pubs), regular is $4.599/gallon."

Just for the hell of it, I brought up Gas Buddy and zoomed in on the Mono Lake area. As of Friday, at the Chevron station right next to Murphey's Motel, regular unleaded is going for $5.59 a gallon.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 06, 2012 11:06 AM (tNO27)

54 We need good old ethyl again

Posted by: Hostilian at October 06, 2012 11:06 AM (34RA4)

55 Thanks to the California Air Resources Board, our gasoline is required to have "higher standards" than the other 49 states, and can be refined at only a few facilities....
This is what the rest of the country will look like if the genius ideas of the ARB spread via an Obama EPA.

Um, how? The can be only refined at a couple refineries should be, IS ONLY REFINED. Once it is nationwide, all refineries will and a single fire will not cause a crisis.

Anyways, I think the emissions requirements are ridiculous, but at least make a cogent freaking argument that can withstand a minor amount of scrutiny.

Posted by: astonerii at October 06, 2012 11:08 AM (ZbNF2)

56 See, they never travel north of Sacramento. We have have the natural resources but no clout.

I lived in San Mateo for 30 years. Shout-out to my crystal springs/highlands crew!

Posted by: 13times at October 06, 2012 11:10 AM (h6XiD)

57 I live in California and watch a fair amount of tv. I saw, for the first time, Obama ads. 2 different ads ran twice each. Either a stupid buy or a sign of something.

Posted by: Paul D at October 06, 2012 11:12 AM (P9lHn)

58 "Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily sky-rocket" - Obama Buy tv in Cali. Play it over and over and over.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at October 06, 2012 11:13 AM (Y5I9o)

59 Visiting my mom in Hermosa Beach today saw five Romney signs and zero signs for TFG. Shocking

Posted by: runninrebel at October 06, 2012 11:21 AM (gLXfE)

60 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at October 06, 2012 11:27 AM (6o4Fb)

61 Come to the Shell station on Olympic and Fairfax in Los Angeles, where the current price for regular is $5.09 a gallon. And rising.

No shit, CAC! I just got Shell regular for $4.59 at Venice and Overland. They are typically one of the better-priced. At this point, I was just grateful they had gas to sell me, at any price.

Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 06, 2012 11:35 AM (kpCLl)

62 My dad said the Mobil up the street from him in San Diego is pimping the regular for $4.79.

Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 06, 2012 11:37 AM (kpCLl)

63 My dad said the Mobil up the street from him in San Diego is pimping the regular for $4.79. Posted by: Peaches hates California at October 06, 2012 03:37 PM (kpCLl) $4.67 last night in Rancho Cucamonga.

Posted by: CAC at October 06, 2012 11:39 AM (epA9m)

64 California gas prices are a poster-child example of how over-zealous regulation chokes the life out of society. It would be a perfect campaign ad on the matter if he did this.

Posted by: Jay Bee at October 06, 2012 11:56 AM (6W8+8)

65 Olympic & Fairfax? You in little Israel?

Posted by: SFGoth at October 06, 2012 12:00 PM (0eRGQ)

66 President Obama's star-studded fundraising concert Sunday at Nokia Theater -- with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi, Jennifer Hudson, Stevie Wonder and Katy Perry -- is expected to snarl traffic in the area.

Katy Perry is doing a fundraiser for Barry in CA. What a stone cold waste of flesh she's turned out to be

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 06, 2012 12:05 PM (zC/tc)

HIGH SPEED TRAINS!

We'll get you nowhere fast!

Posted by: Railroad Union at October 06, 2012 12:20 PM (1Y+hH)

68 At last our emperor won't be screwing up traffic again today--nobody can afford to drive. Honestly, the streets are kinda empty out there.

In fairness, people believed the lies of the Dems re CARB. They didn't elect these czars, who are crazy leftists. John Froines was one of the Chicago 7 and their leading scientist got his degree off a matchbook cover.

http://killcarb.org/tranpage.html

If CA doesn't see the light though, I gotta get out of here.

Posted by: PJ at October 06, 2012 12:20 PM (DQHjw)

Just to note: Romney's been to California recently for fundraising.

Posted by: stuiec at October 06, 2012 12:25 PM (2nzFk)

"If CA doesn't see the light though, I gotta get out of here."

Get. Out.

Posted by: Ahnold Scwhanganegger at October 06, 2012 12:29 PM (1Y+hH)

71 Costco has gas for $4.40. But for that you have to wait in a line that is a wormhole back to 1979.

runninrebel Hermosa/South Bay is still pretty conservative, no? That's why Sacramento keeps breaking different parts of it into different districts.

My friend lives in PV (Big Red) and they used to be in Dana Rohrabacher's district. Now they are in Waxman's and not happy about it. Incidentally she told me that Waxman is running quite a few ads on tv -- both pro-himself and attacking the other guy. It's probably nothing but if PV votes in full force? Nah, they still don't have as enough people to counteract the Westside.

Posted by: Yermo at October 06, 2012 12:31 PM (E3/4A)

72 "The members of the Air Resources Board were appointed when Brown was governor the first time."

Mary Nichols, the chairwoman of CARB and the most batshit crazy leftist on the board (which is saying something) was elevated to that post by the worthless piece of shit, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Der Groppenfuhrer is also the guy who ordered CARB to order the California utilities to get 33% of their power from "renewables", a.k.a. "expensives" and "unreliables".

Posted by: torquewrench at October 06, 2012 12:42 PM (ymG7s)

73 Reading these messages from our friends in that commie outpost is like reading letters from Siberia. Sad.

Posted by: poe at October 06, 2012 12:49 PM (UjZou)

74 No need to come...Brown signed law that makes all our (California) electoral votes goto the national popular vote winner...Win the Popular Vote...get California free.

Posted by: OMSmedia at October 06, 2012 01:05 PM (x15hK)

75 74 No need to come...Brown signed law that makes all our (California) electoral votes goto the national popular vote winner...Win the Popular Vote...get California free.

Say what?

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at October 06, 2012 01:10 PM (Qxdfp)

76 CA is getting what it richly deserves. They voted for it overwhelmingly. Completely Democratic state. Wish I could leave and go back home to Texas. . ..

Posted by: caroline at October 06, 2012 01:21 PM (WY1Q+)

77 The CARB board members are the original watermelons: green on the outside, Red on the inside.

I went to the library today and they had Van Jones' book out on display! I almost took it down but then I would end up in jail with Nakoula.

Hopeless.

Posted by: PJ at October 06, 2012 01:22 PM (DQHjw)

78 Spare the Air!

Posted by: nip at October 06, 2012 01:33 PM (11Tdq)

79 http://www.mittromney.com/forms/suggestions

Add request to campaign in California to Romney site.

Posted by: scrubjay at October 06, 2012 02:21 PM (C0YuJ)

13 times, nice (very very partial) round-up of some of the CARB's atrocities and idiocies.

Remind me someone, wasn't there a draconian unworkable insane diesel restriction pending and then the "science" on which it was based turned out to have a decimal point off - meaning an order-of-magnitude error? But it got better: the "scientist" of the CARB who authored the "study" turned out to be a fraud whose resume falsely claimed a science education. I am not kidding.

Oh - he WASN'T fired. I've spent time in the Third World and, earlier, in the Second (former Soviet Union). It is no exaggeration to say that I see s**t here that reminds me of stuff in those places/times - and this in a state that was run like a finely-oiled machine when I was growing up.

I can't see leaving CA (just got back after decades in the swamp of DC and in various s**t-holes of national interest around the globe). But I am too alienated, furious, and astonished to even have fun with it any more - like teasing "educated" friends into little traps to make them see how little of their own state's workings they have any understanding of.

I suppose I'll vote (propositions, of course) - but CAC, aren't the tax initiatives doomed anyway? Didn't the tax hike props back in 2009 (2007?) get smoked by "no" votes in the mid 60% range (very high for anything like that)?

Posted by: non-purist at October 06, 2012 03:03 PM (UViC2)

81 Yes, non-purist, this is the story of their head "scientist."

http://killcarb.org/tranpage.html

Posted by: PJ at October 06, 2012 03:21 PM (DQHjw)

82 @74, 75 Cali passed a bill that sends its electoral votes to the popular vote winner, but it doesn't kick in until enough states pass it such that a majority of electoral votes are controlled by it. So no, not yet. But if Obama loses the popular vote, I'd expect enthusiasm for it to die down for a bit.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 06, 2012 03:43 PM (7rlbO)

83 Please do, Governor. We had prices spike $0.50 a gallon in a matter of hours.

Posted by: sulla at October 06, 2012 03:51 PM (NocFh)

84 @82

Thanks CM...thought they had the full 270 needed to activate this year. Guess some states got cold feet?...So I reverse my statement...come on out R and R...talk gas and restarting San Onofre...I will come to watch!!

Posted by: OMSmedia at October 06, 2012 08:20 PM (x15hK)

85 If Romney has two more great debates, paint that state red. California should force a recall of the Moonbeam.

Posted by: AgentLobos at October 06, 2012 09:59 PM (tPMgO)

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