California seems to have a plan to chase all gasoline businesses out of their state:

Gavin Newsom PANICS after Chevron LEAVES California
YouTube | 12/17/2025 | Steve Turley

… Chevron‘s announcement to relocate its headquarters from California to Houston, Texas, after over 140 years, with CEO Mike Wirth citing high taxes, excessive regulations, and a difficult business environment that impacts retaining engineers.

Valero is reported to be closing its Benicia refinery by April 2026, accepting a $1 billion loss rather than comply with state mandates, resulting in job losses, a 20% budget hit to Benicia, and potential gas supply issues. Phillips 66 is shutting down its Los Angeles refinery by the end of December 2025, eliminating 139,000 barrels per day of fuel production. Combined, these closures are said to remove nearly 20% of California’s gasoline refining capacity within a year.

California’s policies mentioned include cap-and-trade requiring carbon emissions allowances, a unique gasoline blend mandate isolating the state from national markets, and legislation capping refinery profit margins. The state lacks pipelines to other U.S. refineries, and the federal Jones Act restricts domestic shipping to U.S.-flagged vessels, limiting imports from places like Texas.

Governor Of California PANICS After Shell LEAVES California
youtube | 12/18/2025 | Pump Report

… the state’s strict refinery requirements, low-carbon fuel standards, and environmental regulations create a perfect storm for sky-high prices at the pump. … the Cap-and-Trade program adds hidden costs to every gallon, and even minor supply disruptions send prices skyrocketing. 

Permanent Closure Requirements for Underground Storage Tank with Single-Walled Components.
CA WATERBOARDS / X | 12/19/2025 | Mike Netter

In 2014, California passed a bill mandating that all gasoline storage tanks in the state of California be upgraded from single wall tanks to double wall tanks. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2026. As a result of this law, across the state 473 gas stations will close.

“I don’t know. Try loading fewer images of MaryAnn?”

Posted by Harvey, 9/4/15:

Stripping away all the superficiality, the glitz, the commercialism:

Oh, and also one of these:

SEATTLE ON TRIAL: Fire dept medics ‘abandoned’ 16-year-old CHOP shooting victim Antonio Mays Jr to die: expert witness
The Post Millennial | December 17, 2025 | Katie Daviscourt

… The fatal shooting occurred around 3 am on June 29, 2020, when protesters operating as “CHAZ/CHOP security” unleashed a barrage of gunfire on Mays and his 14-year-old friend, Robert West, while they were driving a vehicle through the zone. The Antifa-BLM autonomous zone was established following the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody. Anti-police activists occupied a six-block radius in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, leading city officials to abandon the SPD east precinct and implement policies restricting police and emergency responder entry without special approval.

Mays, a black teenager from California, endured more than 25 minutes of “agonizing pain” before succumbing to his injuries, said Attorney Evan Oshan, representing the Mays family. 

So the city and the first responders are to blame — not the gunmen, rioters, and liberals who supported this insanity?

Translation: “Anyone should be ashamed for being pensive about Mali.”

Honestly, don’t we have better things to spend our time — and taxpayer dollars — on?

Let the residents MMGA! Otherwise, the majority of the continent deserves a collective “Bah!”

“Togo” sounds more like a prediction than a nation name.

The whole continent looks like it’s in sore need of redistricting (Lagos could be the building blocks), if the courts would just get out of the way.

Apparently “Great Britain News” has some work to do…

Armed Sydney police ram into car and arrest five men en route to Bondi Beach just days after terror attack
Great Britain News | December 18, 2025 | Ben Chapman

…Images from the scene showed the men lying on the red and footpath with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.

Probably meant “road.” Or maybe it’s just their accent.

Photos and videos of the detentions spread rapidly online, but police are yet to realise the identities of those arrested or confirm the exact number of people taken into custody.

Perhaps meant “release,” but who actually knows? May be correct as is.

The incident occurred just days after the Bondi Beach terror attack which claimed the lives of 15 people.

Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act after waking from a coma.

Well, he probably couldn’t have done it before waking from a coma, could he?

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Akrams . . .

Meet the Akrams!

They’re the modern Stone Age family

From the

Terror Baracks

Tore a page right out of history!

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Less rights

Intifada’s in the streets.

Through the

Curse of the feds’ too-left feats;

When you’re

Near defenseless

We’ll have some yobbo do time

Abdullah boom time

We’ll have a gay old time!

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