Newsom Looks To Extend Carbon Cap Policy, Fund Rail Boondoggle As Possible Gas Crisis Looms

Daily Caller cited CEI’s expert on gas prices

“California refining capacity is dying, it is dwindling,” Marlo Lewis Jr., a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Two major [oil] refineries in California are set to close this year … California also has the highest gasoline tax in the continental U.S., which also increases the cost [of gas]. California basically has to produce its own oil and gas or import it by rail and ship. That’s all part of what I call California’s climate obsession.”

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