California May Cut Transport Fuel Consumption 1 Billion Gallons+ Per Year, Blazing US Trail

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• oh! those poor starving oil companies! however will they survive? 🙂 I’m certainly enjoying sticking it to them. Now, if we could just ban fracking…

  • Chevron is the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy. They, and others, will likely look for new business opportunity as they see the oil business declining.

    Now, let’s get busy and speed them along by getting as many electric cars on the road as possible.

  • Things keep going this way pretty soon the oil companies will be looking for subsidies.

    • They allready get subsidies, been so for decades…that’s 1 of the discussions now a days, if those subsidies are cut, renewable and efficienty will grow bigger even faster, which needs to happen to stop climate change.

      • I’m with you. It was just a little tongue in cheek. FF gets by on $4B per year in tax breaks, social costs of negative medical outcomes, taxpayer picking up tabs for spills, train wrecks, etc. not to mention trillion dollar foreign oil wars. All before extant and impending drag on economy from climate change.

• The number of gasoline stations is already declining and the number of Public EV chargers is quickly increasing. My understanding is that many gas stations are marginally profitable – a reduction in gasoline sales may accelerate their demise.

  • Most gas stations make little off gas and most of their money off mini-market stuff.

    I doubt that EVs have caused enough drop in fuel use to close any stations yet. Driving is down and vehicle efficiency is up which might be thinning out the ranks a bit.

    • According to Forbes, they make 5-10 cents per gallon – $100,000,000 is a lot of cola and ding dongs.

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2014/01/21/profit-margins-at-gasoline-stations-have-increased/

      • Gas stations have been operating on a very thin margin – less than 1.5%. They had a good year in 2013. 3%.

        A 20 oz Coke or Pepsi is $1 at the Dollar Store. I suspect they make something on the sale.

        At a gas station $1.79 per bottle is common. 50% margin?

        • Tim-Tams. A chocolate biscuit in Australia. Sold at a huge markup to cannabis users and others late at night at service stations. Tim-Tams almost destroyed Australia’s third largest food wholesaler. The story is the wholesaler got tardy paying its suppliers, so Arnotts, the biscuit company, stopped suppling Tim-Tams and only Tim-Tams, and as a result the wholesaler lost so much custom they almost went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by another company. Do not under estimate the power of the biscuit company. And do not belittle the revenue that flows from the service station chocolate bikkie mark up.

        • Wha….?

          You chappies don’t import Doritos?

        • Well now we do. But in the past Australia was the domain of CC’s corn chips. We even had a lock on the New Zealand corn chip market until the godammed Americans and their goddammed Doritos stormed the beaches of Wellington. Long had the people of the Island of the Long White Cloud sweltered under the oppression of their Australian Corn Chip Masters and once they tasted freedom in the form of American Doritos they cast down the Australian corn chips and they were crushed into their loamy dirt. But they was not ground down by the hairy hobbit feet of New Zealanders! No, they were pulverised under the heel of American Dorito imperialism! And the Dorito Imperialista was not content with merely taking Australia’s unofficial seventh state. They wanted the whole shmear. Nowadays it’s hard to find CC’s in Australia. It’s mostly all Doritos. Just because the damn things taste better! Well, that and the fact that your tax money goes towards making American corn chips cheaper for Australians. Thanks.

          But while you can take away our corn chips, you can never take the great awe inspiring they gave birth to. Sir, I give you the CC’s jingle

          You can say no to Hercules,
          Squeezed into dungerees,
          Seized by refferees,
          With no trapeze abilities,

          You can say no to bees of ease,
          With Lebenese luxuries,
          But even Japanese displeased,
          With facilities in the Pyrenees,
          Can’t say no to CC’s.

          But you can say no to effigies,
          Of MPs in avaries,
          But even these escapees,
          Teased by fleas in embassies,
          Can’t say no to CC’s.

          You can’t say no to CC’s.

        • Wow. Rant mode activated much.

        • Next we load our landing barges with Santitas.

          The horror never ceases….

        • ROFL!!!

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