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Uploaded: Monday, October 8, 2012, 2:18 PM
Gov. Brown issues order to help reduce gas prices
California Air Resources Board will allow refineries to switch to winter gasoline blend
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The California Air Resources Board announced Sunday evening that it is easing certain restrictions on gasoline production in response to a directive issued by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Brown ordered the board to allow refineries to switch to a gasoline blend that is normally only used in winter in an effort to lower gas prices.
The order, issued Sunday, directed the board to take whatever steps are necessary to authorize refineries to make an early switch to winter-blend gasoline. The blend, which isn't normally sold until after Oct. 31, evaporates more quickly than summer blend and is worse for air quality during the smog season, according to state officials.
However, an early transition to it could increase the state's fuel supply by an estimated 8 to 10 percent with a negligible air-quality impact, Brown said. Due to its composition, refiners can produce more of the winter blend.
In response to the governor's order, the California Air Resources Board announced that it will allow the manufacture, importation, distribution and sale of the winter-grade gasoline. State officials said the recent spike in gas prices, which has seen gas prices above $5 a gallon in some areas, has been fueled in part by recent disruptions in gas production, including at an Exxon refinery in Southern California.
However, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said that even with the disruptions, gas production in the state this week remained nearly as high as a year ago, and that stockpiles remain similar to last year's. Feinstein sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Sunday calling for an investigation into the price hike.
"California's consumers are all too familiar with energy price spikes, which cannot be explained by market fundamentals and which turn out years later to have been the result of malicious and manipulative trading activity," Feinstein said in the letter.— Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by TomMots, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 2:50 pm The shortage is just part of the game the oil companies play. They raise the price .50 so when the lower it .30 it seems like we get a deal at .30 cheaper. For them it's a .20 win+++
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Posted by Bicycles are the answer, not cars, a resident of the Esther Clark Park neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 3:08 pm >The California Air Resources Board announced Sunday evening that it is easing certain restrictions on gasoline production in response to a directive issued by Gov. Jerry Brown.
This is outrageous! Our air quality is a health and safety issue, not a short term economic issue. Californians need to get out of their cars and start walking or riding bicycles.
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Posted by stop exporting, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 5:40 pm If Jerry really cared about gas prices, he would order the oil companies to stop exporting oil and gas from California to China. That is the biggest reason for high gas prices in California. Temporary refinery shutdowns shouldn't affect gas prices for more than a week or two, unless the oil companies are artificially inflating prices, which is illegal (though maybe not enforced).
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Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Brown should
1-promote the construction of new refineries in California.
2-promote the drilling for oil and gas on public lands in California
3-promote off-shore drilling for oil and gas
We are back to a Carter like situation re oil and gas prices in California-Carter lost the election in part because of his incompetence re gas prices and foreign policy
History is repeating itself-hope is not a strategy
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Posted by YIMBY, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 5:59 pm Sharon ties the gas prices to Carter? "In 1978, President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy, declaring oil independence a national goal. Projects were funded to develop electric vehicles, solar and wind power, and clean-burning coal. Ronald Reagan abandoned those projects, putting our energy in the hands of Saudi Arabia"
Today's price is similar to July, 2008.
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With California, Canada and Mexico exporting oil to China, Sharon wants this in your backyard so the oil companies can make more money:
1-promote the construction of new refineries in PALO ALTO - let's put a refinery in at the airport!
2-promote the drilling for oil and gas IN THE BAY and OFF THE COAST
Yes, in your backyard, right, Sharon? Or just someone else's?
Hypocrite.
There isn't a thing Sharon won't tie to the current presidential election.
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Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 6:31 pm Wind farms in the bay lands will wipe out the bird population of the bay area and beyond
California has not build a new oil refinery in 30+ years-crazy
Most of the oil and gas potential is well away from human populations or animal--it is in the desert areas
Drilling for natural gas off shore poses no risk to marine or human life-lets get it done
Hope is not a strategy
The Carter/Obama/Brown strategy is a huge fail
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Posted by YIMBY, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:26 pm Sharon wants a refinery in place of the Palo Alto airport and Bay front!
Yay! Go Sharon!!
Sharon: Romney = Bush/Cheney - we know how Bush/Cheney urned out!
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Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm
An oil refinery in Palo Alto does not make sense-
-building many in the desert of eastern California does make sense
-because that is where the oil is.
The green dream god is dead-face reality, bills and American Fundamental Interests for a change-
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Posted by YIMBY, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:50 pm [Post removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
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Posted by Jan H., a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 9, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Jan H. is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Stop the exportation of oil to China. Charity begins at home, and China does not need our help. They have most of the money in the world. They can afford to drill for oil in their own country, and they have shown repeatedly that they do not care about their own environment. Example: one of my former students went to China for a two-week tour, but had to come home after two days, because the air pollution caused her to have a major asthma attack that hospitalized her there.
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