Fuel Starved California is Getting Gas from the Bahamas | Refineries, Pipelines & the Jones Act
February 17, 2026
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as posted by the channelCalifornia is sourcing 40 percent of its imported gasoline from the Bahamas due to a combination of disappearing oil refineries, lack of storage facilities and interstate pipelines, and a loophole in a 106-year-old maritime law, known as the Jones Act.
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