What do you think shipping costs? They have to take it on a Jones Act compliant ship through the Panama Canal. California is getting a deal, in all honesty, after factoring the increased costs.

I’m in the 82nd richest county in the country. It isn’t gouging. It is the fact that gasoline must be shipped using ships that comply with the Jones Act because California no longer has any refineries. The rest of the country has locally-produced gasoline. California relies on ships that cross the Panama Canal to get to the west coast. It isn’t cheap.

Alabama does have a statute concerning lewd behavior that might apply to this circumstance, so the officer might have some grounds. However, if I were a judge, I wouldn’t want that in my court. I can see a prosecutor dismissing the case after holding her in jail the legal length of time before dropping charges.

California is more exposed to international energy prices because of the lack of refining in west coast states. It either has to be trucked or shipped. Not cheap. My local gas station in Kansas is still $3.409.