Decades of Refinery Mismanagement Are Behind $6 Per Gallon Diesel
The newest major U.S. refinery came online in 1977. Democrat-run states expressly announced their desire to reduce fossil fuel production. California, for example, had 38 operating refineries in 1982; as of this year, it has only 12, a 68% reduction in capacity.
In 2025, Lyondell Basell ended refining operations at its Houston refinery, which had a capacity of about 264,000 barrels per day. Phillips 66 shut its Los Angeles refinery, which had a capacity of another 139,000 barrels per day. Valero’s 145,000-barrel-per-day Benicia refinery followed.
The people who gave us six-dollar-a-gallon diesel now want to be elected because diesel is six dollars a gallon. The architects of the vulnerability are campaigning on its consequences. "AFFORDABILITY"!!! ...THEY SCREAM!!!
