>These supply shocks can feel like crises to consumers, but they are actually symptoms of transition. Disruptions are not failures of policy or planning. They are natural features of a system moving from one dominant technology to another. The same pattern has played out in other sectors when tipping points were reached. Coal plants shut down before renewable energy was fully scaled. Film camera factories started shuttering before digital photography was perfected. Typewriter factories were abandoned long before word processing was universal. Petroleum refining is now experiencing the same process.>The feedback loop is important to recognize. As refineries close and gasoline becomes more expensive or less convenient, electric vehicles become more attractive. Charging infrastructure is expanding, ownership costs for EVs are dropping, and policy supports are firm. Consumers weigh their options, and the balance tips toward electric. As more EVs are sold, the gasoline market contracts further, and the case for keeping refineries open gets weaker. Gas stations begin to close in parallel, maintenance shops lose customers for oil changes and exhaust repairs, and parts suppliers see declining demand. Insurance companies raise premiums on older ICE vehicles as risks rise and parts become harder to source. Each step reinforces the erosion of the internal combustion ecosystem.
Cool story bro. Refineries make a lot more than auto gasoline. Even plastics and chems for things like cosmetics.60% of US electricity is generated by burning coal and natural gas, I guess you prefer fracking.
...And That's a GOOD Thing.
Good. Hope this happens to the rest of the country.
>>28623389Oil naturally produces 20% gassoline. We crack it to be 40%. So we can reduce or eliminate the cracking process that turns it into gasoline. Furthermore, we can then crack the oil so that less gasoline is produced.So if gasoline usage drops significantly, we can adjust the oil production to significantly use less oil, thus requiring less refineries.
>>28623389>60% of US electricity is generated by burning coal and natural gas,lol America is such an awful third world shithole. In EU that's less than 30%.
>>28623463I hope you get raped by niggers made of broken glass.
>>28623463It will definitely happen. Gasoline deadzones will start to grow, and less and less people will buy gas cars.
>>28623389>60% of US electricity is generated by burning coal and natural gasha ha no wonders america is 3th world shitting hole fascism dictator and stupidity
>>28623692>We're saving the planet, guys!
>>28623681>*europoor freezes to death because of home heating oil shortage due to Russian sanctions.
>>28623690woo cheap gas for our old barges
Sorry batteryheads, hydrogen fuel cell WILL win in the end
>California refinery is closing explicitly because of california state regulations>it's probably moving to another state>this is a sign of the collapse of all oilthis is a sign of california trying to raid a private business for tax revenue and election optics
>>28623329Kek sure mate, good luck with your work at the free range electricity farm
>>28623389>60% of US electricity is generated by burning coalNo wonder amerimutt love negroes so much - you are all a bunch of coalburners.
>>28623389cool pic
>>28623329>ownership costs for EVs are droppingNot true, govts are doing everything to make EVs as expensive to have as gas cars. You didn't think they'll let you keep the savings?So charging at public chargers is so expensive it comes very close to price of gas and charging cars at home, they're making that expensive too by capping the usage to certain limit which is too low for charging cars. You go over the limit and electricity gets 3x more expensive.
>>28623389California's bullshit blends are really only single purpose fuels for California's state mandated market. They aren't part of the normal supply chain they really only cock up road gas for cali.
>>28623852>bullshit blendsI hope everyone outside of California enjoys their lung cancer.
>>28623329I'm not buying an EV unless it's something that'll last decades, because I'll have to finance buying new battery packs since the vehicle will completely devalue. You can't sell an EV at 100k miles, it literally has no value on KBB so you don't even get a slight trade in boost like with a gas shitbox. Even at 100k you have issues finding any buyer and even dealers may not take it. Tesla famously refused to take its own vehicles as trade ins for some time, they might still be refusing to take their own goddamn cars because they lose the entirety of their resale value around 80-100k miles.The only way this would be economically viable for the working class is to have us buy a new battery and not a whole new car. Or just have the working class make more money. See elites? You can't sell us useless shit or even necessities when WE CAN'T FUCKING AFFORD THEM. I AM NOT LOSING 8-10K A YEAR ON YOUR FUCKING GLORIFIED GOLF CARTS WITH BUILT IN PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE.
>>28623913You're retarded, gas refined in California makes it all over the western US. Their special summer blend is more expensive and gives worse MPG.
>>28624007My 2014 chevy volt disagrees with you.It still gets 50 miles on a full charge before the generator kicks in.And I mean lets be honest, most people don't drive 50 miles in a day.
>>28624014>it's expensive and bad>but it's used across the UShuh
>>28624214US is an expensive and bad experience in general.
K.. KEEP ME POSTED
>>28623764gas*
>>28623852>the future is in rural Alabama not Commiefornia
>>28623329>Refineries move to friendly states because lunatic marxist california government makes it impossible to do business>Retarded blog: it's over for real cars!!!lmao, keep dreaming faggot
>>28624261We haven't built a full scale refinery in 50 years. The last refinery built produces 45% the amount of the smallest full scale refineries.
>>28624261Refineries exist where demand for gas exists retard
>>28624416unless regulations make it cheaper to refine elsewhere and transport, which they do
Doesn't California have like $7/gal?
>>28624429What do you expect to gain from refining it elsewhere? California doesn't allow sub-human gas so you can't import it.
>>28624214Yes moron, this may surprise you but the investment to get a refinery up and running is huge. Oregon and Washington are the younger siblings of California and want to mimic that shit state in every way possible so they have similar emissions laws that make buying California gas a no brainer.
>>28624473>What do you expect to gain from refining it elsewherenot going bankrupt by paying billions of dollars to scam green energy fees that end up in democrat party coffers?
>>28624256>rural AlabamaIt really is nice here. No rust, almost no potholes, no front plates, no inspections, you can run catless no problem, very little traffic, no speed cameras, very few cops. Lots of windy, empty forest roads if you look for them. On the hwy I take into the city people genuinely drive 70-80 in a 55 and it's normal. It's a car lover's paradise.Oh yeah and it's $2.75 / gallon here and the octanes are higher than the west has.
>>28624482Oil refineries don't get free handouts via ignoring externalized costs. They should pay more.
>>28623681>The price of "progress"
>>28624487Trannies like you should be rounded up so you can face the wall.
>>28624498Indians be like "I shit and dump my garbage anywhere I want. Why can't billionaires do the same?" not realizing that shitting and dumping garbage everywhere isn't normal.
Communism doesn't workClimate change isn't realCope seethe dilate
>>28624663>communism doesn't work>calls California, with wealth that rivals almost all other nations, communistYou've proven your retardation by saying climate change isn't real. Didn't realize we had flat earthers on here.
>>28624681>commiefnia policies aren't communist Go back and dilate faggot
>>28624485wtf I want to move to Alabama now. here in yurop we get tons of road salt (I'm sure some politician is making a killing by selling it to the state), shit roads with lots of potholes, very high taxes, mandatory inspections and smog tests, and speed cameraseven our "right wing" parties are identical to communists when it comes to personal transport.
>>28624906oh and forgot to mention that gas is usually around 2€ per liter (while wages and purchasing power are also shit)
>>28624930>2€ per literWoah, that's $9 / gallon. The station nearest me is at $2.74 today.
>>28624681>You've proven your retardation by saying climate change isn't real
>>28624979>criticizes science while using a computer
>>28624952Yeah I just paid 3.6 for shell 93
>>28624952Europe is a shithole
>>28624984>my marxist dogma is "science" because bill nye says so
>>28625006>...he posted on a magical quantum thinking rock.
>>28625010He's not worth arguing with.
>>28624991it's an increasingly brown and unsafe and totalitarian shithole and soon it'll probably be reduced to rubble in ww3. I'm trying to move somewhere else before that happens. t. europoor
>>28623681In America it costs 0.08 eur / kWh. In europe he average cost is 0.287 eur / kWh and that’s with cheap russian gas. America’s average cost is less than half of europe’s, but America’s is skewed higher due to retarded states like California.
>>28624906I was watching an old show where the Danes were blowing up speed cameras when they were first introduced. Now everyone acts like you’re a nazi when a private spy camera malfunctions and the state sends you a ticket for something you didn’t do.
>>28624906Eurocuck "right wing" parties ARE communists
>>28624906Alabama does have some good roads, but if you don't have a good job then it is a living hell down there. Some time ago I worked in a hospital in south alabama and only made $12 per hour which is not livable at all with the rising price of real estate and all your other bills.
>>28625064No worse than yurop
>>28623546You fucking maroon hydrocracking is necessary to efficiently make just about every oil derivative
>>28625483Ok and...? Cracking will still exist, it just won't be used to make as much gassoline.
>>28623329I think the refinery closures are because 15% of California is illegal.
>>28624952remember, most yuro countries' fuel costs are just tax. almost 50% of the cost of fuel per litre is just tax alone.every time burgers complain about gas prices just remember you're probably still paying nowhere near what yuros pay
>>28625491God damn you people are high on your own farts and DUMB AS FUCK
>>28625543That has nothing to do with refinery operations so your post was useless.
>>28625581What the fuck are you talking about retard
>>28625613When are you going to explain that cracking doesn't work.
>>28625491You can't just make it separate into less gasoline while cracking it, it is literally a byproduct of the process. Before uses were found for it, gasoline was dumped into open pits and burned.
