by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
California’s self-inflicted gas crisis is a direct threat to U.S. military force readiness on the West Coast
California needs a federal intervention. Stat.
Most California residents know that California’s self-inflected gasoline crisis is not only increasing prices at the pump, but increasing dependency on foreign oil suppliers and shippers to supply fuels to the Golden State. But, do California residents know that this self-inflicted gas crisis is also a direct threat to U.S. military force readiness on the West Coast?
California Governor Gavin Newsom is presiding over perhaps the largest energy policy collapse of the oil industry, refinery operations and gasoline production in U.S. history, according to a momentous new report from California Assemblyman Stan Ellis, USC Professor Professor Michael Mische, and petroleum expert Michael Ariza.
California produces less than 23% of its own in-state petroleum needs and imports over 65% of its crude oil from foreign sources, yet the oil and gas industry in California account for nearly 8% of the state’s GDP. As Ellis, Mische and Ariza warn, without oil and gas, the other 92% of the state’s GDP would be impossible to attain.
