Governor Newsom Calls Out Oil Industry at UN. (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
California’s Gas Supply Restrictions Lead Gavin Newsom to World Stage
Move over Al Gore…
By Katy Grimes, October 14, 2024 11:06 am
How is California Governor Gavin Newsom going to jump back onto the national stage? Once his role as Joe Biden’s surrogate presidential candidate was shattered as Democrats replaced him with Kamala Harris, how could Newsom remain present in order to facilitate a run for President in 4 years?
This brings us to Gov. Newsom’s plan to decrease the state’s gas supply in special session legislation, making its way through the Legislature.
Keep in mind that California’s cap and trade program expires in 2030 (more on that below).
Gov. Newsom claims that the state’s highest-in-the-nation gas taxes and prices are not what led to dramatically spiking gas/oil prices but because of price gouging by the oil industry. In May, Newsom even signed a gas price gouging law into place.
The California Energy Commission disagreed with the governor at the time, showing that gas price spikes occurred in the last few years because of refineries temporally going out of commission because not enough oil was getting to them.
But even as California’s own Chevron Oil Company announced in August their corporate relocation to Houston Texas from the Bay Area, where the company has been based since 1879, why is Newsom pushing legislation which will clearly result in even higher gas prices at the pump? Again?
Chevron is just the latest big business to flee the Golden State. Notably, Chevron’s President Andy Walz said in a letter to the Legislature that of the 36 states in which they work, only California has the highest gas prices.
“The math behind this proposal is incomplete and fails to address key operational questions,” Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President and CEO of the Western States Petroleum Association said following passage of Newsom’s bill in the Assembly. “For example, how many days of supply will refiners be forced to withhold from the market? What will the storage costs be? And crucially, what happens if a price spike never materializes—are Californians then stuck paying more year-round for no reason?”
Don’t Democrats buy California’s high-priced gas? I don’t know anyone who isn’t complaining about the cost of gas in California.
The situation is about to get worse. Gavin Newsom is working to become the next Al Gore – the name and face of the worldwide climate change grift.
Every climate change bill passed by Newsom and the Legislature is to “Achieve net zero GHG emissions” in the state, and to Newsom and his acolytes, that means outlawing oil and gas. So pretty much everything we use in modern society needs to be upended, overhauled, and restricted, according to Gov. Newsom and the burgeoning industry of climate change hustlers.
The higher the stakes – including attacking the oil and gas industry – the more notoriety Gavin Newsom receives. The harm to the people, businesses and industries of the state is inconsequential as long as Newsom gets press.
In May the Globe reported that the California Air Resources Board is mandating an additional 50 cents per gallon be added to the price of gas in California in January. This is all part of the goal to force California’s drivers out of their cars, and/or into electric vehicles. But ultimately, the Democrats’ goal is to ban petroleum-powered internal combustion engines by 2035 and gas-powered vehicles.
Gov. Newsom, the Legislature and State Air Resources Board are working hand in glove to restrict the availability of oil and gas and increase the cost of gas at the pump so severely, middle class and working class drivers will be making choices between groceries and fuel for the car.
As we said above, California’s cap and trade program will expire in 2030. A group of lawmakers has already been assigned to lead a discussion on climate change in December. Energy experts anticipate another extension is in the works.
What is Cap and Trade?
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has taken a great deal of liberty, particularly with its interpretation of AB 32. The CARB devised the cap-and-trade system whereby it holds a quarterly auction program requiring selected California employers to bid significant amounts of money for the privilege of continuing to pollute — or be faced with closing their doors.
California’s cap-and-trade program places a “cap” on aggregate greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and utilities deemed “polluters” by the California Air Resources Board, which the CARB says are responsible for most of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The Air Resources Board issues carbon allowances, and businesses are forced to buy or sell these in the open market. Several other countries including Spain and Australia have already acknowledged carbon taxing does not work, but not California’s Air Resources Board, not the Democrats, and not Gavin Newsom. Instead they continue to push for more stringent regulations and taxes on California businesses and taxpayers, and lie that the goal is a reduction in greenhouse gasses. This is just another sizable tax on businesses. And instead of actually reducing carbon emissions through the cap and trade program, a business can merely purchase the get-out-of-jail credits to be able to continue (polluting) doing business.
The state effectively said: Forget carbon emissions, we need the money. This legislation which originated as AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, was financially motivated.
With Gavin Newsom burnishing his climate change chops, he can peacock all around the country and the world, demanding zero carbon emissions from emerging countries. Energy experts anticipate Newsom will attempt to expand the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, ‘to align climate change policies and promote clean energy.” I reported in 2013, California Gov. Jerry Brown, together with the Governors of Oregon and Washington and the British Columbia Premier, originally signed The Pacific Coast Collaborative, which links with the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX), a compact between California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The WCX is linked to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative.”
In 2022 alone, California signed Memorandums of Cooperation with Canada, New Zealand and Japan, as well as Memorandums of Understanding with China and the Netherlands, to tackle the climate crisis. The Governor also joined with Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia to recommit the region to climate action.
None of these “climate partnerships” mean anything, nor does “tackling the climate crisis,” and not one of the agreements has accomplished anything. It’s all show, and provides a lame excuse for politicians to travel the world.
Zero carbon emissions from the United States will have no impact on future temperatures, which also applies equally to CARB’s cap and trade, and AB 32 – which makes this the perfect meaningless job for vapid Gavin Newsom.
“There is ‘NO Climate Crisis’ says a coalition of 1,600 actual scientists” in a recent letter to the California Air Resources Board,” the Globe reported in May. “In fact, the scientists find that “California is in no danger of unusual drought: The annual precipitation in California has fluctuated greatly over the last 150 years, with only a slight decrease.”
The CO2 Coalition’s letter was particularly timely with Gov. Gavin Newsom taking his climate change road show to the Vatican where he was invited to speak by Pope Francis at a Summit of mayors and governors. The Summit, held May 15th to May 17th, covered “the impact of rising temperatures” in local communities, and “climate resilience.”
It is important to note that all tax increases are required to be voted on by the California Legislature. But the CARB – a state agency made up of Newsom’s political appointees – has been bypassing the Legislature for years and passing their own “clean air” and “climate change” taxes – obviously with the implicit approval of the Legislature.
The 2023 CARB Low Carbon Fuel Standard amendments document unabashedly outlines in black-and-white, the new gas tax increases through 2042 (page 57):
Gov. Newsom also signed a package of “sweeping legislation” in September 2022 to achieve statewide carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045, by establishing an 85% emissions reduction target, capping oil wells, slowing oil and gas permitting, making it impossible to increase refining capacity, and entirely phasing out oil and gas starting in two years.
That “sweeping set of laws” Newsom touted was 40 new climate change bills regulating California businesses and its people.
In 2019, During Gavin Newsom’s first year in office, the Trump administration Bureau of Land Management finalized plans to open 800,000 acres of federal land in Central California to oil and gas leasing, primarily located in Fresno, Monterey and San Benito counties. This would have allowed oil and gas drilling to move forward in Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus Counties, according to a report by the Bureau of Land Management.
This caused environmentalists’ and Democrats’ heads to explode. California sued the Trump administration in 2020, with then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra calling the Bureau of Land Management plan “half-baked” and “misguided.”
When he signed the 40 new climate change bills, Newsom said, “We’re not interested in investing in the industries that have created the problems that we’re trying to mitigate.” Newsom was referring to the oil, natural gas, agriculture, and auto industries, or “polluters” as Gov. Newsom and climate change grifters would have you believe.
Western States Petroleum Association President & CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said Monday morning: “Our government leaders spent significant time and money in a special legislative session and came up empty-handed. Even worse, they knew a 47-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase is coming in 2025, and this session served as a smokescreen to hide it from Californians. Legislators still fail to understand our industry or what drives high gas prices. Regulators remain fixated on controlling businesses with more taxes, fees, and costly demands.”
Reheis-Boyd continued:
Meanwhile, critical questions remain unanswered—questions Californians and the media should be asking of the Governor and our state leaders:
- If you’re truly concerned about price spikes, why aren’t you addressing the cost increases that will result from tightening LCFS and Cap-and-Trade regulations?
- Workers have raised serious concerns about the safety risks this bill poses to both refineries and surrounding communities. Are you prepared to take accountability if incidents occur as a result?
- Energy companies say “California is closed for business” while experts emphasize the need for more competition. How do you reconcile that with warnings from experts that tightening regulations could risk further refinery closures?
- Aside from pushing legislation, what concrete efforts have you made to collaborate with the energy industry to stabilize price volatility?
- Experts have warned that California’s fuel infrastructure is on the verge of catastrophic failure, and that this bill will only make things worse by increasing volatility. What’s your response to these serious concerns?
- Why aren’t you taking the simplest step of allowing access to the abundant petroleum reserves in Kern County, instead of increasing reliance on imported crude through our ports—at a higher cost and with greater environmental impact?
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Newsom’s war on gas is suicidal for the state of California.
NewSCUM does not care about California.
How is it that Californians have become so stupid that they reliably elect lunatics? And calling them lunatics is charitable. Either California’s collective IQ has decreased significantly or the elections are rigged. Some choice.
It’s probably a combination of stupid voters and rigged elections? I have a Democrat neighbor here in Sacramento who supports Gavin Newsom and she only votes for Democrats because she’s terrified that abortion will be outlawed. Never mind that she’s menopausal, overweight, hasn’t had a date with a man in years, and she has had the Covid shots and boosters. Some of these Democrat voters make no sense?
We must live in the same neighborhood Samantha. 😉
Abortion is the religion of the left. They rely on child sacrifice to their god Baal. Once you realize this it explains a lot about the cult known as the Democrat party.
LOL Samantha. Same wacky-thinking neighbors down here too. Is there something in the water? That is only delivered to them? Hmm. PLENTY of sane people elsewhere in the area and elsewhere in the state, though, thank goodness. As you know.
You have no idea how close you are to being right.
Might be an unintended consequence of the style of formal education where students are conditioned to accept at face value the things that are presented. I’ve noticed the more one is educated, the less they question their favorite sources. I live on a college town and the professors are the worst. If you don’t use critical thinking or listen to your “ inner compass” of intuition, you lose these life skills and become mentally lazy.
At this stage of the game , it’s all around us.
IF, God willing, we should be fortunate enough to embark on anything resembling a new era next year, I really don’t think Gavin the Horse’s Ass Governor will be regarded as any more than a very unpleasant, even nauseating memory. Certainly in the formerly Golden State, which he happily and energetically GUTTED and LEVELED, but very likely everywhere else in the U.S. too.
If my reaction to this latest Grand Plan of Destruction, slapped together in hopes of bringing him the press attention fix he apparently needs like a heroin addict, is any indication of the reaction of others, he can count on being even more despised and inevitably irrelevant than he is now, and that is really saying something. He can strut around this country all he wants hawking his useless wares, but will anyone but the most deluded and masochistic pay the slightest bit of attention? My crystal ball says no. My crystal ball says there will be a lot of mocking and eye-rolling instead. And that’s because Gavin Newsom is a joke, a laughingstock. A reputation he worked very hard to earn.
And speaking of balls, the legislative Dems need to get some if THEY hope to have a political future, because saying NO, NO, NO to Gavin the sadistic B.S.-er and his “war on gas and oil” in this so-called legislative special session is the very best thing they could do for themselves and their careers. Attaching oneself to the sadistic fever brain of Gavin Newsom is probably THE MOST FOOLISH thing one could do right about now.
Let’s get real here… Newsom was an early “Young Global Leader” of the World Economic Forum, and is executing their “Build Back Better” Agenda 2030 war on petroleum fuels, internal combustion engines and everything else the “globalists” want to destabilize the global economy so that they can move forward with their plans for domination, which probably includes “15 minute cities”, or all-electric vehicles (central control over the supply of electricity) or central-bank digital currencies (economic control over where/what/who monies are spent with….
He is essentially a central-control Communist, and a pretty stupid, dyslexic one at that, but he’s likely in the back-pocket of the CCP (why else would he travel to China for his photo-op? Collect a payoff for advancing CCP economic opportunities? Who did the no-compete contract with BYD for PPE in the early days of the plandemic, and is likely advancing BYD’s electric autos in CA?)
Connect the dots, folks, and it’s VERY easy to conclude that our California Governor is being paid off big-time by the central-control /New World Order cabal (WEF/$oro$/CCP/United Nations/NATO, etc.) to implement these completely DISRUPTIVE economic policies…
Biden has done much of the same with HIS reflexive anti-petroleum/anti-Trump energy policy edicts on Day 1 of his “administration”….which has led to skyrocketing inflation as the cost of energy, packaging and transportation overhead costs impacts the cost of EVERYTHING a consumer purchases, and we see what these Democrats want for California, and by extension the United States…
VOTE ACCORDINGLY this November and that means DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRATS…. they AIN’T your friends, as much as they lie to you on the teevee….
Internalize every concept CriticalDefense9 has articulated: He/she is spot on relevant to what is being done to us..
Additionally, Newsom’s performance relevant to those who matter most is stellar.
I remember by father telling me tales about an FBI a long time ago that used to investigate political criminals on behalf of the people. That organization has gone into the dust bin of history, after “Shrimp Scam”.
We have a state full of “Department Head of Death to the People” people with grudges and sticky fingers that need to be in federal prison.
Happy Columbus Day!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes, you tell ’em!
Happy Columbus Day to you too!
Here is the winning formula for California. Whatever Newsom says to do, do the exact opposite. Every one of his initiatives has been a complete and absolute failure. He is the worst governor this state has ever had.
I have the stinkiest, most polluting lawn edger ever made. I use my 1962 edger weekly.
Its name is Gavin. I gives me by 15 minutes of freedom.
“We’re not interested in investing in the industries that have created the problems that we’re trying to mitigate.” I’m sure the refiners and related infrastructure will shortly become uninterested in investing in their business also. This may result in the unexpected premature shutdown of ancillary facilities. Not only will prices skyrocket in outlying areas, there may simply be no gasoline available at any price at some locations.
Katy, This is an excellent article I like your thought process. You are correct that Newsom has to “reinvent” himself politically in order to stay in the game. Newson, Kamala and other currently elected California leaders were given a choice when they were first elected. They were given a choice to truly serve the people and make California a better place to live and work in but instead they chose to serve at the altar of power, control and corruption. Their choice works for a season, but it never lasts forever. Fortunately, the folks are waking up to their intentions and are throwing them off. Newsom and his crowd are squeezing back but it’s not going to work. The harder they squeeze the more pushback they are receiving. Here are some events that I believe are still to come. 1. A large earthquake that will shake the state. As a result, Newsom will try to implement some type of martial law 2. A temporary collapse of the stock market. 3. Kamala being pushed aside (Her stock is plummeting fast). 4. The exposure of Biden. 5. Exposure/proof of how elections are manipulated for the desired outcome. The corrupt class of leaders here in California and in America are being driven out of power. The manner in that which this change is happening only God can do. We can look back throughout history and we can see what can only be described as a miracle that took place the netted a positive change. This time is no different.
Want to bring Newsomlini to his knees. Have a truckers strike. Yes, there’s a price we will all pay. But nothing is free. The man is a menace to a free society. The only way to bring him to toe is shut the state down.
While there is little doubt that Gavin Newsom, the WEF globalist stooge, is pushing the “climate change crisis” fear porn to restrict gas and oil supplies to gain more power and control over Californians with the ultimate goal of implementing the globalist’s one world government agenda, there is some evidence that the weather is being manipulated here in California and elsewhere? Climate engineering researcher Dane Wigington says Hurricane Helene is the latest crime the climate engineering cabal put on the people of Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida where the hurricane appeared to have been intensified and purposely steered for maximum destruction. Wigington theorizes that Western North Carolina was especially targeted because of strong opposition from local residents to the lithium and crystal mining in the area where some of the richest deposits in the world are located.
Wigington has provided evidence that droughts and wildfires are being engineered here in California with patented technology. He says more and more people are waking up to the weather warfare happening around the world to control and even destroy humanity.
(https://usawatchdog.com/world-at-war-with-criminals-controlling-weather-dane-wigington/)
(https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/)
“Angels Don’t Play This HAARP” a great read.
He wants to turn California into a resort state for his rich friends with the remaining population, poverty stricken servants.
Where is the constitution on this?
it is a proven scientific fact: the rotational axis of the earth has measureably shifted due to groundwater extraction to slake the thirst of 8 billion humans. Gasbag Gavin seems to think He has the righteous results !!!
And remember, this is a clown who put a moratorium on the Death Sentence, unless of course, you still reside in your mother’s womb……..
Drill, baby, drill. Frack, frack, frack!
It’s time for fed up Californians to counter Newsom’s gas price gouging law with a “Democrat tax gouging law” that limits Democrats and their unelected bureaucrat stooges on the California Air Resources Board from raising taxes that are already at outrageous and punitive levels.