6 weeks are standard. If you want to keep it for longer it needs additives which increase price. Noone does that usually.
I think in this case it's 6 weeks but _declining_, but that's a good distinction to point out.
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#22Governments have gotten in the bad habit of acting like nothing will ever go wrong. Living paycheck-to-paycheck, so to speak. Cali not the only one suffering this fate. It doesnt matter if it's Trump's fault or not. Lets just say it is. Bad things happen. You have to be ready.
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#236 weeks are standard. If you want to keep it for longer it needs additives which increase price. Noone does that usually.
Yeah, seems like a standard supply level to me.
"California’s inventory has averaged just over 20 days of supply over the last five years (2019–23), compared with the U.S. average of 21.6 days."
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#24the entire economy of California being dependent on how Iran is feeling on a given day is crazy work
Yeah especially given that California is a leader in renewable energy sources.
Renewables is for electricity. Oil is used for a lot of things that electricity can't replace, or not yet
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#27I’m surprised that only “18.9% of new car sales” in California are electric [1].
[1] https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2026-01/california-surpasses-...
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#28the entire economy of California being dependent on how Iran is feeling on a given day is crazy work
Who do you think started the current war?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> California leaders have done everything they possibly can to chase refiners out of state The refiners are running out of crude. Having more refiners wouldn’t solve the problem.
There's plenty of crude oil in CA. Certainly enough for California's needs, in fact.
that is not my understanding or what is implied in the article. where would i go to find this fact?
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#30People will blame climate policy on this but this is evidence that we've failed to move off our fossil fuel dependency.
It is funny that propaganda has somehow convinced conservatives, people who used to idealize self reliance and independence from government dependencies, to move away from solar and EVs.
A EV and a home solar setup with a large battery bank, is the ultimate in self reliance.
I remember even 10 years ago you'd see the occasional right leaning homesteader talking about the benefits of being off grid with a solar setup.
Now days removing our dependencies on foreign powers is somehow a liberal conspiracy. O_o