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We're paying circa 7$ per gallon, as high as in Germany, for example. Our electricity price is also double. Average pay here is maybe 800$ monthly.
Outrageous.
$800 just for electricity, or $800 wages per month?
Gasoline around these parts still carries a price of about $3.69 a gallon. It still amazes me how California is a leading oil and gasoline producer and we pay some of the highest prices in the 48 states, thanks to the price gouging as****es.
Oh I know the state is killing us with thier taxes and surcharges.You don't think Kalifornia taxes aren't the primary driver?
Gasoline around these parts still carries a price of about $3.69 a gallon. It still amazes me how California is a leading oil and gasoline producer and we pay some of the highest prices in the 48 states, thanks to the price gouging as****es...
As far as electricity goes, I was raised to conserve electricity. Mom would always put a lower wattage bulb in lamps, always reminding me to turn the light off when leaving the room, stop hovering in front of the fridge with the door open (you know, decide on what to grab and move along) and things along those lines. This was 40 years ago and they make this simple things of conservation sound like some modern revelation.
I still do these things and yet the electric company is telling me to "conserve" to do my share...well, I've been doing "my share" for decades as it is. If I conserve any more than I already am, I'll be reading by oil lamp.
You don't think Kalifornia taxes aren't the primary driver?
$3.08/gal for commodity gas here.