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One of the things that SoCal does bigger than texas (besides communist stupidity) is heat. Yeah, it’s been hot here in Texas lately…but by SoCal standards, it’s not all that hot. I recall many times when I still lived there that temps got up into the 110°-115° range in the LA suburbs. I still remember the day I got my 1st club racing license at Willow Springs Raceway, out in the Mojave desert. It was 118°, and the temperature 18” above the track surface was 143°. I once saw 123° in Death Valley.

I had to go back to central California 3-1/2 weeks ago for a family funeral. The hottest of the 4 days we were there it was only 88°, but that was just 8 miles inland from the beach with a cool breeze blowing in off the ocean. But further south it frequently gets a LOT hotter, just as it also does when you get east of the Sierra Nevada range.

The morning of Saturday 7/9—the day when we flew home—I paid $6.30/gallon in Santa Maria. When we landed at DFW and got home that evening, I was seeing $3.85/gallon at stations we drove past on the way home. I paid $3.22/gallon today on my way home from work. Ah, the many splendored wonders of communism in the land of the left coast lotus eaters.