➡ Governor Gavin Newsom is advising Californians to avoid Chevron gas stations during the Memorial Day weekend due to high prices. He claims Chevron’s prices are 60 to 80 cents higher per gallon than unbranded alternatives. Chevron blames California’s climate policies for the high cost of gas. The average price of gas in California is $6.14 per gallon, which is $1.58 higher than the national average.
➡ Gas companies in California are shutting down due to strict regulations and high costs. This has led to 70% of the state’s oil being imported from other countries, causing higher prices for consumers. The speaker criticizes California’s high taxes and cost of living, comparing it unfavorably to New York where, despite high taxes, there’s better infrastructure and less need for a car. The speaker suggests that Californians are being deceived into thinking they’re paying for quality when in reality, they’re being overcharged.
➡ The text emphasizes the vast differences in lifestyles and living conditions across various regions in the United States. It highlights the stark contrast between urban and rural areas, with some people living in poverty and others in wealth. The author encourages visiting different places to understand these disparities better. He also mentions how social media helps bridge the gap by providing insights into how others live.

Is declaring war on Chevron, telling drivers to avoid filling up at the gas stations this Memorial Day weekend. The governor warning the oil brand is driving up prices at the pump. KTLA’s Chris Wolf is live in Studio City with details on the feud. Chris, Micah and share Governor Newsom is taking on Chevron gas just ahead of Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest travel periods of the year. So just what is behind this war of words? You might call it a fuel based feud or big oil battle between Governor Gavin Newsom and Chevron Gas. The head of the Golden State is singling out Chevron for high prices at the start of Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

In fact, the Democratic governor’s office is urging drivers to shun Chevron stations during this holiday. Newsom’s office posted on X Big Oil is already making billions off Trump’s Iran war. Don’t let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name. But why this brand? A group within California’s Energy Commission found that Chevron averages more than 60 to 80 cents per gallon above unbranded alternatives. One may also wonder if something else caught the governor’s eye. Chevron is posting signs at many locations blaming the state’s climate policies for the high cost of gas. Sacramento policies did this.

Now you pay more. The messages greeting customers go on to say California politicians are choosing foreign oil and fuels over local jobs and lower costs. It’s forcing us to like, use less, go less places and just kind of like hunker down. Blaming is implying that. The thing is you have to find one person to blame. It’s a whole system and the system has many moving parts. I don’t know if prices ever really come down though, do they? I think they set a new normal and then they go up from there. The grass price is high and it is bad.

The average price of gas in California was $6.14 per gallon of regular on Thursday, about $1.58 higher than the national average. According to AAA, gas prices have been rising nationwide since the Iran war began, cutting into the global fuel supply. Reporting live in studio. So one thing that Jeff Bezos said that a lot of people miss in that whole conversation that he was getting an interview on when CNBC was asking him about taxes and AOC is he said you have to. You can’t villainize the people that you have to work with and the only people that can get away with that is politicians.

You cannot villainize the people that you are supposed to be Working with. You can’t. Let me show you why California gas prices are higher than everywhere else. So this is roughly a year ago where gas normally in California is the highest in the United States of America. The reason for that is for several different things. Right, but let me break it down a little bit more here. Most of what makes up California gas prices is based off of all the taxes that they assess onto it. It’s not that California gas is harder to refine or anything like that, is that their politicians villainize the refineries and the places that they’re supposed to be doing business with.

On top of that, they also overly tax California gas. And so a lot of times you’re paying more than triple of whatever it takes for them to get it. So when they get the gas, they then tax it to death. They double and triple it. They justify it by saying, well, we’re going to use this in order to move towards a greener economy. So we’re taxing the crude oil that we get here and we’re going to use the profits to then generate clean energy so that in the future you guys will have a lower cost. And anytime that you see a spike, politicians pivot because they, they know that people.

Let me, let me tell you what the, what the key is. When they say my people are broke from a lack of knowledge or my people perish from a lack of knowledge, it’s because you refuse to do the research or you refuse to do a couple different. Take a couple of different steps so that you can understand why you’re paying more than whatever the national average is now. All states tax gas, all states throw extra on top of it. By the time they get to you, you all. The gas station itself, in most instances, don’t even really make a lot of money off the gas itself.

I know because I have friends that own gas stations. I’ve caught them before. The gas stations most of the time make their money off of you coming in and buying products, buying chips, buying candy, buying a drink. And that’s where they make the majority of their profits. The gas itself is for you to come in. It’s a funnel for you to buy other things when you come into the gas station. And so what most states do, California is the worst at it. And if y’ all really want to understand why y’ all cost in California is so much more, it’s because of politics.

Politics cost you money. The money is never passed on to the consumer. Even when they’re incredibly profitable in the beginning, they then pivot the Money. And they say, well, we’re going to use it for this and we’re going to use it for that because nobody is going to audit us and tell us where the money is supposed to be going. And so they tax y’. All. They tax y’ all to death. Taxes and fees in this model, for example, is half of what it costs for them to get the refining of it and the crude oil itself.

So now what Gavin Newsom has done is he’s declared war. He said, listen, I don’t like the prices. He didn’t say, what is it going to cost y’? All? Why is it that this is costing us more? Any of this type of stuff? All they do is say, we gonna villainize the gas companies because we know that people are incredibly ignorant. We know that people are incredibly ignorant. And they’re not going to go to do the research or they’re not going to go and understand it themselves. And so all we. And so this is when you then start to get people on Tick Tock and you start to get people on Instagram and you see people and they say, gas prices are high.

They don’t want to know. They don’t want to help you to understand that you’re really getting it for $2 a gallon, but they selling it to you for six. He ran the refineries. Just this past year, he ran the refineries out of California. I did a report on that. And so now he. He triples down. Now he goes to you and he says, listen, guys, I don’t want y’ all buying California gas at all. I don’t want to want you buying it from Chevron. So now he villainizes them more. He strains relations on his way out the door because he’s going to capitalize off of it as far as making sure that he can use that as a talking point if he decided to run for President of the United States of America.

And he burns the whole house down on his way out because he’s selfish and he’s focused on himself. Governor Gavin Newsom is advising Californians to stay away from Chevron gas stations this Memorial Day weekend if you want to save money. KTLA’s Andy Rose Ramos is live in Montebello to explain why. Andy Rose, good morning. Hey, guys. Good morning to you both. Yeah, the governor now taking aim at this gas company ahead of, as you mentioned, this busy Memorial Day weekend. Well, we know a lot of folks going to be heading here to the gas station to fill up their tanks before they head out of town.

Well, the governor says to avoid doing that at a Chevron because they, they are charging more than other gas companies, specifically, like unbranded gas companies. Take a look at what he is putting out there to the public. He put this message out onto his social media page saying, or telling Californians to avoid Chevron, saying in part, quote, pro tip, unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, storage tanks and pipelines. And it meets the same steam standards to keep your engine running clean. Big Oil is already making billions off Trump’s Iran war. Don’t let let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name.

It’s forcing us to like, use less, go less places, and just kind of like hunker down. Blaming is implying that the thing is, you have to find one person to blame. It’s a whole system and the system has many moving parts. And if you’re asking why is this brand of gas specifically being singled out? Well, a group within California’s Energy Commission found that Chevron averages more than 60, 60 to 80 cents per gallon above unbranded alternatives. The average price of gas in California was just over $6 per gallon. Of that, Californians pay the highest gas tax in the nation.

But in the past few years, multiple refineries have shut down in California gas companies saying it’s because of things like strict regulations and high costs to create specific fuel brands. Meanwhile, about 70% of the state’s oil supply is shipped in from other countries. Now, back here live, we’re zoomed in on assigned customers posted here and at other Chevron gas stations. It says, quote, sacramento policies did this. Now you pay more. California politicians are choosing foreign oil and fuels over local jobs and lower costs. It’s unfortunate that California politicians have completely ruined the state to the point to where people can’t even tell the difference between when they getting finessed and when politicians are telling them the truth or when they just getting a, you know, a talking point from a Democratic politician.

Y’ all are taxed to death. I mean, we all taxed to death, but y’ all, in California, y’ all tax the worst. If you live in New York or you live in California, you know why it’s even worse in California than it is in New York? Because in New York, you’re taxed to death, but at the same time, you also have infrastructure, even if it’s dirty, even if it’s messed up. Y’ all got subways. You don’t necessarily need a car to get around. You walk more. It’s A little bit more than that. In California it’s like 1A and 1B.

California is 1 1A in California you, you just hit. You just hit. And let me tell you what the, what the reason is, how they justify it. Well, the weather is good. The weather is good. So you know what, you just gotta take, you gotta take it. The weather is as good. So you know what? No big deal. I knew, I used to know people that would move to New York and they would say, yeah bro, I’m selling my car. So that’s gonna be a cost that I could take away. I know I’m gonna be paying more to live there, but I, but I don’t have to have a car to be able to get around.

That’s what, that’s what people I knew that used to move over to New York. That’s a little bit of what they used to say. Now again, I don’t agree with the policies in New York either. But they didn’t have that additional cost of gas, maintenance, cars, insurance, repairs, car note, all of that type of stuff California say. But at least we got beaches. At least we got good weather year round. Now they may be taking a dump on the beach, but at least we got it. So I’m gonna need you to pay $1 trillion more just to be here in California because the weather is nicer and they able to get away with it.

To an extent they’re able to get away with it because people in California, they, they think that they’re paying for something when in reality all of it is just fraud. Honest to God, I’m keeping it 100 with you. When you provide somebody with something that makes them feel comfortable and they’ve been doing it for a long time and they’ve gotten used to it, they don’t see anything wrong with it because it’s just something that’s normalized. You ever known somebody that grew up like when you was coming up in school and and you go to neighbor. Because I like, I used to go to my homeboys cribs and stuff like that when we got out of school or something like that.

And so I visited my homies in Highland park or we, they would come over, we will go hoop over here or my other homie in sh. Force and everybody had a different lifestyle even though we went to the same school. That was one of the benefits of going to Cass Tech is because Kaz Tech wasn’t a neighborhood based school, it was a performance based school. So Cass Tech renaissance king, what would happen is you would have to test to get in. And then you had to maintain a certain grade point average. And if for any reason you fought or did something crazy, they didn’t care who fault it was.

You getting up out of there, they kicking you out, right? And so after ninth grade, you’ve seen a huge fall off of a lot of people, even if they tested to get in there. Because you still had to maintain a level of decorum and behavioral normalcy in order to stay in that environment, Right? That’s why our. That’s why we were called technicians. We wasn’t the horse riders. We wasn’t the. The trailblazers. We were called the cat cast technicians. That’s what we are. Ct. Right? But what you would see is you would see kids from all over the.

The city and all over Metro Detroit that was going there. So it didn’t matter if he was from the east side, the west side, Cheryl Forest, Palmer Park, Gratiot, wherever, would see all of these people coming to the same place. And so when you would go and visit your homeboy, because it. The thing about Cass is that it had all different buses going to all different parts of the city. So I would catch the Hamilton sometimes. If my homie would get off at Highland Park, I would keep going until we got further up 7 mile, till you got past Liver Noise, and then we would get off there.

When you go over your homeboy’s house, a lot of time you be looking like, you wouldn’t say nothing. You wouldn’t say nothing, but you would just be like, damn, it’s messed up over here. Like in. In the inside, right? But then he would be like, oh, this is normal for us. Like, this is normal. This ain’t even a big deal. Oh, you know, and you realize, wait a minute, I might have been living in a bubble. And then conversely, he come over your house, or he could we. Y’ all go over somebody else’s house, right? And he would be like, wait, what y’ all doing? I didn’t even know that people did this.

And then. And then when I went to middle school before that, right? And I got. I got to visit some of the super rich people because I’m going to school in a. In a private Catholic school. And, you know, in a space where kids are from all over, but they coming from all over with money. And then I went into the house. I went into a house that had like 10 bedrooms set, like 12 bathrooms. And I was like, people live like this. Like, this is real. In real life, people, this is normal. Like You. You drive a BMW to school every day, and that’s just your normal car before you graduate, right? And it was like, whoa.

And then if they come and visit you, they like, dang, I’ll live like this. This is your norm. And I equate the same thing to. To different people that live throughout the United States of America, right? Because you can go to California and they just think it’s normal because they’ve been living like that and paying their whole life. They got a little shack that’s 72 square feet and somebody’s garage that they’re renting for $5,000 a month. But it’s close to the beach. It’s like, yeah, but you know that you got to sleep standing up, though, right? And then you go over to New York and they.

And they living in a, you know, two. Two 20 foot square foot apartment that falls down and they got to use the bathroom. They could just jump over to the bathroom and jump right back into the bed with no shower, and it’s a rat crawling through. Hey, guys. But we got. We got Central Park. It’s like, y’ all living like this. They’re like, yeah, bro. And then you go down south, and they got a whole bunch of land. A whole bunch of land, but they got a whole bunch of Cubans, you know what I’m saying? It’s like, what.

What is going on? And that’s why I say a lot of you, you go over to. To Appalachia somewhere, you know what I’m saying? You go over to Arkansas somewhere, and you see them po. Oh, boy. Talk like this. They always sucking their gums because they don’t got no teeth in the front. Yeah, yeah, man. Because. And he been busting down his sister since they was born together, but they can’t actually physically get married. But he been having. Him and his sister been getting. Boxing, sucking on each other. And then once the son get up to a certain age, she.

He haven’t getting boxed from his mama. Yeah, those type of towns exist. Those type of. And it’s like, yo, y’ all living wild out here. I’m telling you, if you travel this country, it is so many different people, lifestyles, and nobody is monolith. If people traveled the country alone, not even outside. Outside of the country. If people traveled this country alone, they would realize that nobody is a monolith. That you. You literally got all different types of people. Y’ all saying what I’m telling you is real. You saying what I’m telling you is real. There are People that live in no man’s land out here.

Go listen, go to one of these. Go to the reservations, bro. Go to the reservations. Go to the reservations in Wisconsin, Go to the reservations in California. Go to the reservations in Michigan. Go to these reservations. You know what they doing up there? They drunk, they high, they poor, they messed up. Go visit some of these people in some of these places everywhere and see how they live in, bro. It’s, it’s. It’s so many different people and lifestyles is crazy, bro. How they mans all day, every day waiting on the check to hit the first of the month.

Way different. It’s different. It’s crazy. The bottom half of the state is going to be different than the top half of the state. Upper Michigan and the peninsulas is way different than lower Michigan. And towards the cities, Way different. It’s a whole nother world. A whole nother world. Going up to upper Michigan, man. They don’t even have cars in some parts of this state versus coming down here towards the city. And it’s a different. It’s a different environment. So when I see people over in California, they delusional because they don’t know nothing other than what they’ve been doing.

And they think it’s normal to pay and live the way that they’ve been paying and living. They think it’s normal. It ain’t dramatization, it’s real life is real life. Go into some of these towns in these cities and drive your nice car because what we think is, what we think is whack or what we think is, oh, man, you know what? You just basic and this and that, this and that over there, over there. Guess what it’s like for them. You pull up, hey, who’s that? Who’s that over there driving in the Escalade? Oh, we used to seeing Escalades.

We live in New York, California, Detroit and all of that stuff. We used to seeing Corvette, C8S, whatever, right? You got what’s normal in Miami is abnormal in Arkansas. Pull up in that thing if you want to, you know. You know. And Miami, a Urus is like a Ford Explorer to a lot of people. A G wagon is something that you’re going to see probably every three minutes. And Jacksonville, it’s not going to be like that. Same state, different environment, different airport, different lifestyle, different everything. Different. Everything. Everything, bro, it’s. Everything is different. I’m keeping it 100 with you.

Come out to come out to Michigan, right? Oh, listen, 30, 30 to 35 minutes will get you two different lifestyles here in Michigan. You can come down here, it’s gonna be dudes with money, you know what I’m saying? They gonna have that Yukon Denalis. They gonna have a Corvettes. We like Corvettes here because we the Motor City. We the Chevy, you know, Chevy out here, you know what I’m saying? It’s a lifestyles racing. It’s cars. It’s all of that type of stuff, dude. Spending money, you’re going to prime and proper. You out here making it happen, making it rain.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, go. 35 minutes out to the city. You know what? They got lifted. Trucks. Everybody gotta pick up. Everybody drive Ford Shadow. Everybody driving Ford or Chevy. Pick up. Trump country. Two different experiences. 35 minutes apart. Two different. Two different experiences. And so a lot of people don’t get it. A lot of people don’t get it. I’m telling you. I’m telling you, bro. They got a 87 Ford or they got a 87 custom deluxe, and that’s a shop on whales. Keeping it 100 with you. So a lot of times what social media has also done is social media has helped us to bridge the gap so that we can start to understand how other people live.
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