Well wrong twice over. Direct "gasoline" tax is $0.77 in California. Further there's an excise tax, a greenhouse gas tax and so on. So $1.18 per gallon directly

Well wrong twice over. Direct "gasoline" tax is $0.77 in California. Further there's an excise tax, a greenhouse gas tax and so on. So $1.18 per gallon directly for gas... But hold on, California also taxes underground storage tanks, the transportation of gasoline, and so on. It doesn't cost $4/gal to transport gas from Texas to California. Your gas station owners aren't making that much profit.