WOW. $6.24/gallon at a station in Essex, CA. This compares to $1.88/gal at stations in Houston, TX. Straight jacked up. #gasprices
With deliberate wide spread blackouts from their bankrupt electricity distributor in order to reduce the risk of fire californians are getting a double whammy facing a large jump in petrol prices in more remote areas to US 6.00 which equates to 2.3299 aud per litre.
us gallon = 3.78541 litres
Tesla advised owners of its electric cars to fully charge them before the power was turned off
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tesla-Alerts-Owners-To-Fully-Charge-Ahead-Of-Massive-California-Power-Shutoff.html
It exposes a terrible flaw in electric vehicles cut off from electricity for to long and your car is an expensive pile of metal.
Those with solar power at home are not protected as the switch off turns off the solar panels to protect line people working on the lines from electricity going back into the grid although a box is being developed that will allow houses with it to continue
