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The most interesting moment of Sponsored on Monday interrogation Of the seven declared democratic candidates for the governor is their answer to a question from the Union representing oil refining workers.
They asked them, “As a governor, would you be pragmatic to stop targeting the oil and gas industry in California in ways that threaten jobs in the Union and force us to rely on dirty or imported energy?”
The question arises State’s intention to eliminate fuel based on oil Over the next two decades and last reports that two of the nine of the state Rafiners will soon be closedS
In practice, every candidate signals yes. Antonio VillaregosaFormer Los Angeles mayor suggested the most full answer.
“We can’t continue to be a party for only people who drive Tesla, not a Toyota pickup, or a bus, like my mother,” he said. “We put this concept of only renewable sources on the back of working people. We have the highest gas prices in the United States. We have the second highest costs for utilities.”
As vilaharagosa thought, the closure of the refinery to continue, it could be a double economic bite. Refinery workers will lose their high -paying jobs and press fuel supplies can increase the high prices of California in the pump.
Michael Bernik, an employment lawyer who once managed the State Employment Development Department, examined the impact of previous refinery closure and found that the promises of job conversion to the refinery to a well -paid alternative employment did not refuse.
Bernik, In an article by Forbes Magazine this monthHe wrote that “Despite the generous sums of state funding for retraining and re -employment, few of the dismissed workers have managed to get new jobs anywhere near their previous salaries, and a large number remains unemployed, more than a year after closing.”
Two more refinery closures could hit the users hard as per Analysis from the economist of the University of South California, Michael Micha. Imports of replacement deliveries would be difficult and shortage can push gas prices over $ 8 per gallon within the next few years.
“California can afford the loss of a refinery, let alone two,” Mish writes, adding: “The collective consequence of the waiting refinery goes out to Golden State, is potentially devastating for the economic growth and status of California as the fourth largest economy, in the nominal point of view. Refining Capacity from 2023 to April 2026 ”
Mische also notes that gasoline or diesel supplies and prices are not the only factors in the reduced capacity of the refinery in California. California provides much of the fuel consumed in Nevada and Arizona, and many military bases in the state also depend on refineries in California to power their planes, ships and vehicles.
The bottom line of MIX:
“Based on Current Demand and Consumption Assumptions and Estimates, The Combined Consequences of the 2025 Phillips 66 Refinery Closure and The April 2026 Valero Refinery Closure, Together with Estimated Average Consumer Price of Regular Gasoline Could Potentially Increase by As Much As 75% from the April 23, 2025, Price of $ 4.816 to $ 7.348 To $ 8.435
The Newsom Administration is trying Convince the media that Mische numbers are prejudiced Because once he advised Saudi Arabia about energy policy, but he did not propose any economic analysis to disprove his discoveries. Warming climate, of course, accelerated by emissions, Available with disasters risksS
There is no sugar coverage from the impact of energy conversion on both the workers in the oil industry and the consumers, and its management will be the most dangerous political and economic mine field of the next governor. A wrong step can be catastrophic.
