by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s gas is $1.58 higher per gallon than every other state As of 2025, California’s total gas taxes and fees amount to approximately $1.15 per gallon, which includes state excise taxes, local sales taxes, and various fees. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California has the most expensive and least reliable electricity California has taken nuclear power plants offline while increasing mandates for wind and solar, resulting in statewide power shortages and power outages. Nuclear power is clean and reliable; [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘If the remaining refineries cannot secure increased supplies of in-state crude, we risk seeing more refinery closures and even higher gas prices’ AAA reports today that the national average gas price is $3.17 per gallon. California’s average [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Any increase in the gas tax is a surefire way to put the California economy on the road to ruin’ California gasoline already costs approximately $1.50 above the national average, and we are getting another gas tax [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom, the Legislature and CARB have been working hand in glove to restrict the availability of oil and gas and increase the cost of gas at the pump AAA reports Monday June 23rd that the U.S. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe But first, the gas tax increase of nearly 65 cents a gallon from going into effect July 1st California Democrats killed bills earlier this month that would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California refiners have not engaged in widespread price gouging, profiteering, price manipulation California Democrats killed bills this week which would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon from going [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is producing only 23.7% of its own in-state oil/gas needs “California can ill afford the loss of one refinery, let alone two,” says USC Professor Michael Mische in a new report warning of an impending gas [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom is single handedly sending California into energy poverty, rather than economic and energy prosperity What a difference a presidential administration makes. In “Welcome to Saudi America,” economist Stephen Moore writes, “Thanks to the fracking and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom signed a package of ‘sweeping legislation’ in September 2022 to achieve statewide carbon neutrality In 1988, the state of California only imported about 4.5% of all the oil that we consumed in our state. By 2020 [...]
