Newsom’s green agenda does not meet California’s fuel demands

Southern California: (South Coast Air Quality Management District)

• Marathon Petroleum (Los Angeles)
• Chevron (El Segundo)
• PBF Energy (Torrance)
• Valero (Wilmington)

Northern California: (Bay Area Air Quality Management District)

• Chevron (Richmond)
• PBF Energy (Martinez)

California's remaining refineries that process crude oil lack the capacity to produce the 58 million gallons of transportation fuel demanded daily. Compounding the problem, other operators have warned that the regulatory climate makes additional refinery closures likely.

Expanding access to affordable and reliable electricity and liquid transportation fuels and the thousands of products made from crude oil improves lives. But California's policy approach takes a contradictory path by forcing refinery closures, even as demand remains high. The state's mandated reliance on weather-dependent electricity like wind and solar compounds the issue, as the state's utilities have to also build expensive backup, storage, and transmission.

Energy "REALITY" tells us that we need refineries to convert that useless black tar into usable transportation fuels and products:

• Planes, ships, trucks, and cars do not run on raw crude oil, they run on transportation fuels manufactured FROM crude oil by multi-billion-dollar refineries.
• Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any products or transportation fuels for life as we know it.
• The world is not dependent on raw natural fossil fuels BUT has become dependent on the products and transportation fuels MADE FROM oil, the same products and transportation fuels that Wind and Solar CANNOT make!

The world needs MORE REFINERIES to process that useless black tar into usable transportation fuels and products for life as we know it.

Reliability

For billions of people living in developing countries, the greatest challenge is not achieving Net Zero. It is escaping poverty while gaining access to reliable energy, transportation, clean water, healthcare, education, and economic opportunity.

The global discussion should therefore begin with people-not simply with carbon.

For many families, daily life means cooking over wood, charcoal, crop residues, or animal dung in poorly ventilated homes. Indoor air pollution causes millions of premature deaths every year. Reliable electricity, clean cooking, refrigeration, sanitation, and transportation remain unavailable to many communities. These are immediate human problems.