California imported more gasoline in November than ever before, with more than 40 percent routed through the Bahamas, according to Bloomberg.
As in-state refining capacity declines, gasoline refined in the United States is now traveling thousands of miles to the Caribbean before returning to the West Coast on foreign tankers.
Last year, California sourced more barrels through the Bahamas than in the prior nine years combined, accounting for roughly 12 percent of all seaborne gasoline imports.
This is the result of one-party Democratic control of California’s energy policy: refining capacity shrinks at home while dependence on offshore shipping grows.
Buy one gallon. Get two sets of emissions. Out of state is not out of the atmosphere.
Refinery closures are projected to raise gasoline prices by 5 to 15 cents per gallon. With no interstate pipelines connecting the Gulf Coast to California, the state is increasingly exposed to global freight markets and long-distance supply chains.
Drivers already pay the highest state gas tax in the nation at 61 cents per gallon. Now they are paying for record fuel import dependence.
Democrats control the Legislature and statewide office, and California families are paying the price for the energy system they built.
