Chevron Refinery Fire will raise gas prices

Fire erupts at Chevron's El Segundo refinery

(KTLA 5) A massive fire erupted Thursday night at Chevron's El Segundo [the city in Los Angeles where LAX is] refinery, prompting road closures and nearby cities to issue shelter in place orders. Gil Leyvas and John Fenoglio report Oct. 2, 2025.

(ABC7 News) What we know about the El Segundo Refinery Fire

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Invest in Elon Musk-free solar car: Aptera

Is this EV really a car? It only has three wheels and runs on solar power. It's a spaceship.

This Aptera EV is not yet a flying car but, like Icarus, it goes for the sun in a big way.

I may be losing money, but the government will give me more to replace whatever I lose.

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Tesla EV electricity comes from burning fuels.

Yes, but does it fly? Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing. Bloomberg projects that electric vehicle sales will increase in one decade from 1.7 million vehicles in 2020 to 54 million by 2040. Aptera is looking to earn a significant portion of that growth.

Coal power is dirty. Mineral mining adds to dirty

Aptera was created from the ground up with one purpose in mind — energy efficiency. Its unique shape allows Aptera to slip through the air using 30% less energy than other electric and hybrid vehicles on the road today. That efficiency allows Aptera to have a much longer range than competitive electric vehicles, with a range up to 1,000 miles. Aptera (invest.aptera.us)

I got rich by working for the US gov't.

The real Tesla was ET smart.

• Aptera; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Cheap supercars for broke boys: QtrLife Crisis

Ideal Media, March 3, 2022; Team T (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There's room for all ages and genders on this ride.

Consider the fact that our hormones, patriarchal societies, the ways we're raised don't change so much. At the time of the Buddha, rich kids raced around in cool chariots with parasols and white stallions. Why? Image, chixdiggit, ego, testosterone, competitiveness, vanity, memories of life in the lower heavens (planes of existence in the deva worlds of the Sensual Sphere), who knows? But they did. And many people do it here and now, no longer limited to rich boys. Think of the new lowrider law in Los Angeles, California. Every kind of person in our U.S. car culture gets sucked in at least a little. Some a lot, but everyone a little. This is the Sensual Sphere (kama-loka). We aim for rebirth in the Fine Material Sphere or, at the very least, the sensuous heavens. Some more wisely aim for an end to rebirth or rearising in the hard-to-conceive Immaterial Sphere (the formless realms). Here, in the world of form (rupa), we want to experience things viscerally, corporeally, in the gut, on the skin, in the nether regions. We didn't make it that way. The karma of the being reborn here make it that way. So, given that we're wealthy and in the West with all its excesses, let's look at cars before they become illegal and we all go EV and start drag racing Priuses in tubes through our smart tubular cities, like that massive one being built in the desert. Kids, don't try this at home; ask a parent instead. But, you know, Knowledge and experience come from choices, and bad choices seem to yield the most knowledge and experience.

Cheap supercars for broke boys

(Ideal Media) Let's look at some not so expensive supercars for less than anyone thinks! Get in a 500 HP, 200 MPH beast that smokes a friend's BRZ. Some cheap cars make one look rich, from the Sl55 AMG, Fisker Karma, Aston Vantage, and Lotus Elise to the Dodge Viper, these cheap rides will make a statement wherever they're being driven. OK, OK, what's "cheap"? That depends. What's a "supercar"? That depends, too. Shut up. The average new car in America costs $50,000.00 so "cheap" varies.

Join The Ideal Fam at bit.ly/IdealMembership.  #dodgeviper #supercars #cheap

Gas prices rise but a SOLUTION exists

Cameron Kiszla, KTLA, 9/12/23; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I have a Tesla, so I'm not part of the problem...most days, unless I run out of juice and use gas.

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Gas prices soar higher in Southern California

Don't drink it; pore it in the tank

Buckle up, Southern California. Overly high gas prices are back with a vengeance [just as was predicted years ago to align with Big Oil's plan to milk the endless supply of polluting petroleum, which German scientists proved grows naturally in the ground by the magic of microbes in the soil and is not coming from old dinosaur fossil deposits. But it takes a long, long time to replenish and is very toxic and polluting when brought up and burned into the atmosphere. Big Oil also doesn't want anyone to know that clean, natural alcohol can be a gas as a byproduct of natural yeasts and microbes eating sugars].

Daryl Hannah and her alcohol-powered ”Kill Bill” come to downtown (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Los Angeles County [the self-proclaimed Capital of the World because what happens here eventually happens everywhere else] prices are up to an average of $5.56 per gallon.

A month ago, that price was $5.22, according to AAA. That’s higher than the state’s average of $5.46 and far higher than the national average of $3.84.

[They'll have us all in 5G remote controlled electric vehicles, which will be more polluting to fuel up even if less polluting to operate, by outlawing internal combustion engines that run on petroleum in the name of climate change alarmism. But sourcing rare earth minerals to make batteries on an industrial scale then burning coal to make electricity to power them is known to be far more polluting than the system now in place.]

[Though devices and techniques to get 100 MPG have been around for 50 years, they will not be allowed because that would bankrupt Big Oil, which has a graph and prognostication on how much money they are going to make from the remaining amount of peak oil at their disposal, over how long, and at what price at the pump.]

[They will not be deterred by engineering innovations, better fuel efficiency standards, alcohol as a replacement fuel, solar, wind, methane, free energy (which is not even allowed to mention), hydrogen fuel cells, or systems yet to be brought to market or dreamed up. But Big Oil will bow out to make room for "smart cities" and an agenda of greater government surveillance and control.]

It's already working as detailed in Blume's book

It’s also higher than this time last year, when a gallon was $5.41 on average. 

However, it’s still lower than the highest local average ever for L.A. County, which was recorded a little over a year ago:

On June 14, 2022, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas was $6.44. Despite the climbing costs, deals can still be found. GasBuddy.com shows prices as low as $4.69 in the greater Los Angeles area. More

Solution? Alcohol fuel from sugars

A plant goddess (bhumi devi) knew all along

(David Blume, alcoholcanbeagas.com) ...We can reverse global warming. Since alcohol is made from plants, its production takes carbon dioxide out of the air, sequestering it, with the result that it reverses the greenhouse effect (while potentially vastly improving the soil).

Recent studies show that with a permaculture-designed mixed-crop alcohol fuel production system, the amount of greenhouse gases removed from the atmosphere by plants -- then exuded by plant roots into the soil as sugar -- can be 13 times what is emitted by processing the crops and burning the alcohol in our cars.

• Why alcohol fuel? The 2-minute summary (David Blume)

A peaceful solution? No "blood for oil"?

We can revitalize the economy instead of suffering through Peak Oil. Oil is running out, and what we replace it with will make a big difference in our environment and economy.

Alcohol fuel production and use is clean and environmentally sustainable, and will revitalize families, farms, towns, cities, industries, as well as the environment.

A national switch to alcohol fuel would provide many millions of new permanent jobs. No new technological breakthroughs are needed. We can make alcohol fuel out of what we have, where we have it....

Unlike hydrogen fuel cells, we can easily use alcohol fuel in the vehicles we already own.

Unmodified cars can run on 50% alcohol. And converting to 100% alcohol or flexible fueling (using both alcohol and gas) costs only a few hundred dollars.

Most auto companies already sell new dual-fuel vehicles.

This would've bankrupted us and Bush Dynasty

Alcohol is a superior fuel to gasoline! It’s 105 octane, burns much cooler with less vibration, is less flammable in case of accident, is 98% pollution-free, has lower evaporative emissions, and deposits no carbon in the engine or oil, resulting in a tripling of engine life. More

• Alcohol Can Be A Gas! - Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century [to Avoid Toxic Coal and Nuclear Fallout]
• The Plant Goddess Landscaping, California
• GreenGoddess.com

CicLAvia: Bike Los Angeles on April 15th

Ciclavia.org; Wisdom Quarterly

CicLAvia (pronounced "seek la VEE uh") takes over the streets of Los Angeles (nuffy.net).

There is a lot of wisdom in bike riding and people power.
Getting in touch with our inner tube helps rid us of our spare tire (bulging waistline).

Bikes for everyone! (BikeNationUSA.com)

"Bike sharing" is designed for short quick trips where users rent, ride, and return bikes from kiosks located in key areas. Before using Bike Nation purchase a membership, which gives the member access to the system. A a 24-hour membership allows a rider to rent, ride, and return bikes for 24-hours. But having a single bike checked out for 24-hours is NOT the point; bike sharing is actually...

CicLAvia event on Sunday, April 15th

Rediscover LA in a whole new way…on foot, bike, or anything else that rolls! Streets will be closed to vehicular traffic for one day on one green Earth event.

Inspired by Colombia's Ciclovía, "cycling way," the original, weekly street closure event. There is a long list of activities all along the route allowing Angelenos to rediscover the country's most impressive megalopolis.

The city is too often choked with traffic, a fact of life "The Hills" and other popular shows meticulously avoid. Here is a chance to safely maneuver the concrete jungle.

• CicLAvia - Media - Blog - About - Activities

Ride with pride: a unicorn bike, a boy with a dream, shameless fun without being defined by a car a corporation built (damnlol.com).

All this hustling comes with a price: few use public transportation unless they have to. The powers that be want it that way while pretending to try to "figure out" how to encourage mass transit. The world already knows how; there's no need to reinvent the wheel.

But LA's car culture is the model that made the oil and automobile businesses kings. CicLAvia temporarily removes cars from LA streets. LADOT provides traffic plan maps for travel through Koreatown, Hollywood, Little Japan, Little Bangladesh, Thai Town, and many other ethnic pockets.

Most Fuel Efficient Cars

Low carbon footprint? The most fuel "efficient" cars use no gas at all (teslamotors.com).

The Tesla Motors Model S and Roadster -- electric cars with zoom (treehugger.com)

In every price range, going green is getting easier (frugallysavvy.com).

• Meet the 40 MPG Club (edmunds.com)
• Most fuel efficient for 2011 (thedailygreen.com)
• FuelEconomy.gov:
  

2011 Most and Least Fuel Efficient Vehicles (ranked by city, then highway) Show Most Efficient Excluding Electric Drive Vehicles MOST EFFICIENT OVERALL MPG† City Hwy Nissan Leaf 106 92 Most and Least Fuel Efficient Cars (by EPA Size Class, Transmission) MPG City Hwy Most Efficient Two Seaters smart fortwo electric drive cabriolet City: 36kw/100, Hwy: 43kw/100. 94 79 smart fortwo electric drive coupe City: 36kw/100, Hwy: 43kw/100. 94 79 Honda CR-Z 4 cyl, 1.5 L, Manual(M6), Regular 31 37 Most Efficient Minicompact Cars MINI Cooper 4 cyl, 1.6 L, Manual(6), Premium 29 37 MINI Cooper 4 cyl, 1.6 L, Automatic(S6), Premium 28 36 Most Efficient Subcompact Cars Ford Fiesta SFE FWD 4 cyl, 1.6 L, Automatic(AM6), Regular 29 40 Toyota Yaris 4 cyl, 1.5 L, Manual(5), Regular 29 36 Most Efficient Compact Cars Chevrolet Volt‡ 4 cyl, 1.4 L, Automatic(CVT), Plug-in EV , Premium Elec 95 90 Gas 35 40 Volkswagen Golf 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Manual(6), Diesel 30 42 Volkswagen Jetta 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Manual(6), Diesel 30 42 Most Efficient Midsize Cars Nissan Leaf City: 32kw/100, Hwy: 37kw/100. 106 92 Hyundai Elantra 4 cyl, 1.8 L, Manual(6), Regular 29 40 Most Efficient Large Cars Hyundai Sonata 4 cyl, 2.4 L, Manual(6), Regular 24 35 Honda Accord 4 cyl, 2.4 L, Automatic(5), Regular 23 34 Most Efficient Small Station Wagons Audi A3 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Automatic(S6), Diesel 30 42 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Manual(6), Diesel 30 42 Most Efficient Midsize Station Wagons Kia Rondo 4 cyl, 2.4 L, Automatic(4), Premium 20 27 Least Fuel Efficient Cars Least Efficient Two Seaters Bugatti Veyron, 16 cyl, 8.0 L, Auto(S7) 8 15 Least Efficient Minicompact Cars Aston Martin DB9, 12 cyl, 5.9 L, Manual(6) Aston Martin DBS, 12 cyl, 5.9 L, Manual(6) 11 17 Least Efficient Subcompact Cars Bentley Continental GTC FFV,* 12 cyl, 6.0 L, Auto(S6) 11 18 Least Efficient Compact Cars Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe, 12 cyl, 6.7 L, Auto(S6) 11 18 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, 12 cyl, 6.7 L, Auto(S6) Least Efficient Midsize Cars Bentley Continental Flying Spur FFV*12 cyl, 6.0 L, Auto(S6) 11 18 Bentley Mulsanne, 8 cyl, 6.8 L, Auto(S8) Least Efficient Large Cars Rolls-Royce Phantom, 12 cyl, 6.7 L, Auto(S6) 11 18 Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB, 12 cyl, 6.7 L, Auto(S6) Least Efficient Small Station Wagons Cadillac CTS Wagon, 8 cyl, 6.2 L, Auto(S6) 12 18 Least Efficient Midsize Station Wagons Mercedes-Benz E350 4matic (wagon) 6 cyl, 3.5 L, Auto(7) 16 23

*MPG when operated on gasoline. † MPGe is miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent and represents the miles per amount of energy of a non-gasoline fuel that is equivalent to the amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline. For an EV or PHEV, 33.7 kilowatt-hours of electricity represents the same amount of energy as one gallon of gasoline. ‡ The Chevrolet Volt is ranked based on a combined electricity and gasoline value of 60 MPG.