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Massive fire at California refinery extinguished, anticipate a spike in gas prices

October 3, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

Firefighters extinguished a massive fire at an oil refinery in California on Friday afternoon. Because of the fire, gas prices are expected to rise 15 to 30 cents a gallon throughout the state.

The fire broke out Thursday evening at the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo. The fire shot large flames and plumes of smoke into the sky which could be seen for miles. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The Chevron refinery produces an estimated 20% of California’s gasoline and 40% of the state’s jet fuel. It is the state’s second largest oil refinery.

At an average of $4.64 a gallon, California already has the highest gas prices in the nation.

 


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Yes! The slow-motion train wreck begins! It’s the top of the roller coaster and all downhill from here.

California leadership has so completely mismanaged energy in this state, that now there is no path out of catastrophe.

We are about to have a gas shortage. We will have a strained supply or very high prices , or both. Lines…

Over in the electricity sector we are going to have expensive, limited supplies here too .

Mainly out of state providers will keep us on life support. Even if a plant or – God forbid a “ wind farm” were to begin today, it won’t be up and running for 15 to 20 years! Any old timers remember how long it took Diablo to get up and running after inception? I do… decades! And what else is different now? Oh yeah , the State and Fed are broke!

And how are water and insurance and healthcare looking around here these days?

…… We’re so cooked it’s unbelievable. At least the current leadership in this state is done. Destroyed by their own foolish policies.

Stand by for heavy turbulence straight ahead. The ride is about to get very interesting.


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Yeah, it’s like CA admin was all about shutting down Diablo Canyon, at 10% of CA electricity generation, until PG&E said “yeah, Diablo’s losing money so we’re shutting it down!”


Then CA gov is like “No!!! You Can’t shut Diablo down!! Here’s $2 BILLION! Please keep Diablo open!!! N PG&E sez “OK, fine”…


Refineries will similarly soon have CAGOV by the same short hairs, all because of CAGOV stupidity…


Because Dems are malignant dumb – no clue how the real world works.


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Newscum’s war on oil has reduced California’s operating refineries from over 30 to less than a dozen in less than a decade, with 2 more scheduled for closure in less than 2 years. So accidents like this guarantee that CA, with the highest gas prices – and taxes – in the nation, will suffer even more. Ca government stupidity, and voter stupidity, gets the punishment it deserves.


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