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1. They have to ship it here and that costs money.
2. State gas tax.
3. Federal gas tax.
4. In CA we have "special" cleaner gas and there are only 4 refineries producing it and I believe one went offline a month or so back.
5. Supply and demand. Price goes up we still buy. If we stopped buying prices would drop but we aren't about to stop buying gas.
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