This is self induced pain by the State of California. Their energy policies keep the supply low, on purpose. Can't fix stupid but you can vote it out but that ain't gonna happen in California.

Hey idiots, get a windmill powered car. And keep voting for liberals. Can we reverse that Treaty of Hidalgo?

Don't tell anyone, but a lot of us out here are conservative. We'd love to invade Sacramento, kill our leaders and convert them to Christianity, but...you know.

Not yet, anyway.

#3, look in the mail for your walking papers from NRO.

Blame the right people, I know the governer is a jerk, but the EPA is all of the problem, snail darters must be saved, never mind that they can no longer find them, can't go after oil in desert - same reason, the epa loves cactus and sand. CA is a wonderful place to live, but they are hemmed in by the DC dems. Reagan was the only gov that we had that was worth a dern.

OK, if we're gonna waste taxpayer money on a California Energy Commission we could at least get policies that don't harm the public.

Chu wanted $6 gas. He is elated. Wheee! Californians can now move on top of each other in the state planned urban communities. California desperately need income tax increases. They have a lot of movie actors with high school educations being paid millions. No way they built that.

There was a similar story yesterday and CA posters reminded us of the many retirees, military and low wage employees.

Yes we feel sorry for you.

However, as others say, where do the lib legislatures, judges and Governor come from? You gave us Nacy Pelousi and her ilk. You gave us Green energy rules and gasoline blends.

Your judges rule in favor of every lib.

It is hard to feel sorry for the state.
Plus if the oil companies would have "a pair" they would shut down every green gas station and only pump "normal" gasoline. Whats Obama going to do?

Lets see how you vote in November and we may feel for your more; or less.

It is inflicted by the Democrats, who currently are 43% of the registered voters (which total nearly 18 million) and who control both the legislature and the governor's office.

The rest of us were never for this, but at 30% of the registered voters we do not have much of a voice.

Do the math.

Now, the Dems and the 20% who are Declined to States and other miscellaneous parties (5+%)are suffering with these prices, too.

So maybe there will be some new math as we go along....ya think?

Re #8, one of us also reminded you of the voter registration data in #9, which as I recall you then appeared to misunderstand, declaring the Republicans to be the majority and continuing to blame them for what is happening in California.

Real Conservatives don't usually eat their own and continue to put forth erroneous information.

Criminy. Only a really ignorant person would believe that California was wall-to-wall Democrats.

Who do they think the California LDotters are? And Lucianne's staff in California?

The continuing insults are unseemly and make those who keep slinging them look either illogical or just plain mean. Why do they do it?

I just pray that the escapees from California are the conservatives. A lot of libs moved out to Oregon and Washington and are ruining those states as well.

Election season brings tourists to Lucianne who are often not really one of ours after all.

Oldtimers here remember Hollywood Bill and know that California has a huge number of Conservatives, but not enough to turn the political tide. Yet.

Socalgal, we are sympathetic. But why can't the conservatives pull it together out there? I live in Michigan and never thought the GOP would ever recover. But we have control of both houses, and the Governorship. Wisconsin has done the same. Is there nobody in California who can make the case for recovery?

For the very slow, I will fill you in, San Francisco and Los Angeles and illegals vote dem. There is nothing that we can do in the outlying desert communities. Hemet used to be great - close to shopping mall out off the highway, close to San Diego and from SD to Catalina. I miss my friends there but none of us were dems and our towns never voted for dems and the illegals came in and were bribed.

At what price point will it start to change how people vote?

But why can't the conservatives pull it together out there?

The only way that Conservatives can "pull it together" when they are outnumbered by Dems to the tune of 13.3%, or 2,340,000 votes, is to attract some votes from Independents, Decline to States and others. This happened when Gray Davis was recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. But although he saved the state from both Gray Davis and Dem Cruz Bustamante, who ran against him, that was not good enough for those who said Arnold was not Conservative enough.

Who else was running? Uber-conservative Tom McClintock, who won only when he ran for an office in his (previously) protected Republican assembly district. When he ran for Congress or for anything statewide, he lost. He couldn't even work with fellow Republicans in the state legislature. He didn't have a chance.

Hard right candidates won't break the voter registration barrier. This time a moderate could. And with Socialist Obie running, a right moderate like Romney may pull it off.

It seems to me that we should support each other here. I have never seen a known California LDotter slam any other state - not ever. We have people from states like Illinois here who could be taking a beating. They aren't.

If Conservatives like my fellow LDotters want to attract Californians to cross the line, they'll have to be a bit more polite to their own.

I so agree with #17 - well said.

California is one of the most beautiful of our states; so sad that it has has lost all the magic it had back in the good old days of Ronald Reagan.

Let's all pray. Miracles do happen.

And #18, I was an adult when Ronald Reagan was running. I agree with those who say now that if he were to run now, as he did then, with a long background as a Democrat and president of a union, and with his relatively moderate stance, he would be labelled a RINO and dismissed.

And no one, no matter how eloquent, can budge me from that position.

He had no Tea Party - they'd not have give him a second look. What he did have was what became his "Kitchen Cabinet". A group of powerful, extremely wealthy business executives who carried him into public acceptance.

Most here view him in hindsight. Some of us were there. We admired him and what he did, but have no delusions about how he would fare now.

Do the people in California get it? You are suppossed to get hosed. You are expected to get the screwing and like it. You are less important than a slug and you are the hiding place of every weird, liberal,illigaland 1

Californians, like myself, an immigrant to boot, are longing for a true conservative that we can rally behind and support. Yesterday I took my car to my favorite auto shop for an oil change. I spoke to the owner, an immigrant from Vietnam. He asked me If I watched the debate, I said yes. I said Romney cleaned Obama's clock. I was surprised to find out that he is a registered Republican. He assumed all along that I was a Democrat for I came from an immigrant group that traditionally votes democratic. Suffice it to say, we had a lively conversation about politics that afternoon.

Aside from the fact that you Californians have so many miles of lovely coast, fabulous weather and no bugs, I'm not jealous much, and, living in PA (home of the dead Philly voters and poll-watching NBPanthers), I cannot say much about your politics. However, during a recent election, two CA moderates were nominated and lost. I could be wrong, but have doubts that Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman lost because tea party types did not vote for them.. I'm not judging; I'm still amazed that here in PA, Lynn Swann lost to Ed Rendell a few years back.

Just paid $4.61 a gallon at the cheap station. This stinks.

I have lived in, traveled to or through, spent time in a number of our states. They all have something to recommend them - some more than others. Each one is special to those born there and those who have chosen to live there. And each one has its unique problems and challenges.

As another poster has said it is easier to work through these problems and challenges with the support of those who share the same values. When they seem to turn against us - and all the time - it is disheartening, disappointing.

The Republicans' biggest handicap, in my opinion, is that they so often divide against one another. The Democrats have come to count on that.

Well, CA, are you enjoying your eco-terrorist policies by demonrats?