by Staff writer | Nov 6, 2024 | News
Gavin Newsom Drives Jobs Out and Prices Up Phillips 66 announced it will close its Los Angeles refinery by 2025, removing about 8% of California’s refining capacity. This move comes just after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law aimed at stabilizing gasoline...
by Mark Phillips | Sep 6, 2024 | Editorial, Opinion
Starving The Grid In Spite Of The Citizens As I write this my area of Southern California is under an extreme heat warning. We are told by the well meaning public officials and newscasters to draw the drapes, turn off the air conditioning, and do not run large...
by Staff writer | Aug 21, 2024 | Opinion
A recent article on Extracting Fact discusses a poll showing that most California voters reject Governor Newsom’s claim that “price gouging” by oil companies is the primary cause of the state’s high gas prices. Despite the governor’s repeated...
by Staff writer | May 15, 2023 | Editorial
In recent years, California has been grappling with the challenge of balancing its ambitious climate policy objectives with the need to meet its energy demands. However, a new bill, SB 556, threatens to tip the scales by imposing an impossible burden of liability on...
by Staff writer | Jan 7, 2023 | Editorial
As if SB-1137 isn’t enough to fight against, in October 2022 Gavin Newsom wanted to bring back the Windfall Profit Tax to California’s oil and gas industry. Throughout the process of getting this approved, that tax changed into becoming a “civil...
