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Price Spiked: How Oil Refiners Gouge Californians on their Gasoline and What it Costs

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Californians have perennially experienced steep gasoline price spikes since 1999 when California’s Attorney General formed a Gasoline Pricing Taskforce that identified market consolidation and limited inventories as causes of prices spikes. Consumer Watchdog’s president Jamie Court represented the California Assembly on that taskforce along with leading industry and government representatives.

Read the report here.