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It costs more in California because of California's air quality laws requiring a certain gasoline blend. Not many refineries make it, so prices are higher, and when one of those refineries slows or shuts down for maintenance, etc., prices climb fast.
In fact part of the reason for high gas prices is the state by state gasoline requirements forcing a need for refineries to produce many different fuel formulations. When one refinery goes off line the demand might not be able to be picked up by others because they may not be set up to produce that regions fuel.
Getting rid of the state by state requirements would mean one national "standard." Is that what anybody wants? Federal government intervention?