Emmy Griffin: The Democrats' Manufactured Gas Crisis | The Patriot Post

While fuel prices are indeed rising, blue-state leaders are seizing on the opportunity to make the problem much worse. - Emmy Griffin
In California, gas prices are outrageous...the reasons for that state’s sky-high fuel prices, which are a combination of 

• bad policy (shutting down refineries, mandating a certain blend) and 
• worse policy (higher gas taxes, environmental reparations, 
• attempting to phase out gas-powered cars).

“The state imports about 60% of its crude from overseas — up from 5% in the mid-1980s — about a third of which comes from the Middle East,”..

• Remember, this is not because there is no crude oil to pump in the state of California. 
• There is plenty of black gold there, particularly offshore. 

However, California has rendered itself incapable of producing its own energy because of regulations, restrictions, and other policy nonsense related to its “green energy” initiatives...