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EDITORIAL: Nevada hurt by California’s anti-fossil fuel crusade

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Review-Journal·24 days ago
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada. Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon . In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon . Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California . It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran. In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down . That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels . To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.…

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