Insiders warn: Potential SHORTAGES in 3 weeks / $8+ per gallon / Cascading impacts on Nevada, Arizona / Even 1970s-style lines at gas stations.
All thanks to Democrat ideology.
Newsom must act now to avert this looming crisis:
“So we’re here at a gas station in Los Angeles, actually in Pasadena.
You can see the prices behind me: $4.99, $5.19, $5.39.
Here’s what’s about to happen unless Gavin Newsom takes emergency action.
These prices are going to go way up in California.
A recent estimate this week from a professor who studies the energy industry is that gas prices could go up in California to $8.39.
Insiders in the oil and gas industry are telling us that within weeks, we could have shortages of gas, we could have lines at gas stations like we saw in the 1970s unless action is taken now.
It is the direct result of Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in Sacramento and their so-called war on fossil fuels, which has not done anything.
Energy consumption in California: 80 % of our total energy today comes from fossil fuels.
In the rest of the country, it’s 81 %.
It’s barely changed.
What has changed is our dependence on imports of oil and gas.
They have systematically shut down our oil and gas industry here in California, so we are now importing foreign oil.
Most of our oil and gas is now imported.
We used to produce most of it here; now it’s only 15 %.
It’s being shipped here on giant supertankers spewing out carbon emissions.
None of this helps the climate, but it does hurt.
On top of that, their insane regulations and taxes are driving refineries out of our state.
We saw Phillips 66 announce that they’re leaving.
Valero and Benicia announced that they’re leaving.
Add that all together, along with a fire that just happened at the Benicia refinery, we could lose 25 % of our refinery capacity here in California.
That’s why we’re going to have price increases, that’s why we could have shortages, that’s why we could have lines at gas stations.
All of it, the direct result of Democrat policy because of the regulations they’re putting on the refineries and the fact that they’re reducing the supply of California oil to the refineries.
So there’s not enough business for them because they can’t process the crude oil, much of it that comes in from places like Iraq, Venezuela, and Ecuador and Brazil from the rainforest.
It’s all total insanity.
It doesn’t even meet their own objectives.
It doesn’t even reduce carbon emissions.
It doesn’t even reduce — and none of it makes sense.
It doesn’t even reduce our carbon emissions; in fact, it increases them because we’re shipping in crude oil and now we’re going to have to ship in finished gasoline.
By the way, guess where that’s coming from?
Countries like Turkey.
And guess what’s going into that?
The refineries in Turkey, oil from Russia.
After all their lectures on Putin, we’re now importing effectively oil from Russia instead of producing it here in California.
So it doesn’t meet any of their objectives.
It doesn’t even on their own terms, it doesn’t work.
It doesn’t reduce carbon emissions, doesn’t reduce our overall dependence on fossil fuels.
What it does do is destroy energy jobs and energy communities here in California.
It massively increases the price that everybody pays, and that of course hits working-class Californians more than anyone else.
And it makes our entire energy infrastructure unstable and fragile.
So the minute that something goes wrong, like this fire we’ve just had in Benicia, the whole system is under threat.
And that’s the position we’re in.
These reckless policies from these ideologues, Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in Sacramento, are now really threatening the livelihoods of everybody in California, every family, and every business.
We have to take action.
Gavin Newsom has to take action.
Here’s what I would do if I was governor: Number one, immediately issue permits for our oil producers, especially in Kern County, to increase supply of our cleanly produced oil here in California so there is business for the refineries, so they don’t leave and shut down.
Number two, reduce the regulations that are the most extreme anywhere in America on our refineries so they can make it work here in California, so they don’t leave our state, so that we don’t have to import gasoline from other countries.
And number three, sit down with the oil and gas industry as I’ve been doing to work out a plan to fix this problem, to stop this crisis from happening — the Gavin Newsom gas crisis that is potentially weeks away.
We can avoid it with common-sense policies that give us here in California affordable and reliable energy that is good for jobs, for our communities, and for the environment.”
