Originally posted by Bandit
you mean am i aware of special formulations? yup. i'm aware. but i seriously doubt these formulations account for the price difference. more likely it's an example of oil companies getting what they can from a docile market. but i'm kind of cynical when it comes to Big Oil.
Here's some attribution from
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/...41000.html#gas. This is from Berkeley of all places!!
A quote: "That [CA's special formulations] has put the state in a very precarious supply/demand balance which, as we learned last year, makes us vulnerable to price spikes whenever a refinery has problems".