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Posted on 07/24/2025 6:30:55 AM PDT by george76
California Democrats are reportedly rushing to find a buyer for a refinery scheduled to shut down in 2026 as a potential gas crisis looms over the state, according to Reuters.
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the upcoming closure of the Valero refinery in Benicia, California, according to three people familiar with the matter that spoke to Reuters. Democrat officials are now reportedly scrambling to keep the refinery operating in California after enforcing stringent regulations that have helped prompt refineries to close across the state for years.
“CEC is engaging with market players to explore pathways for the continued operation of in-state refineries,”
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Valero announced its Benicia, California, refinery closure in April, and Phillips 66 refinery is also scheduled to shut down by the end of 2025.
A spokesperson for Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom pointed the DCNF to Newsom’s recent comments about working with oil refiners and producers to help keep fuel supplies steady, as well as his April letter to CEC urging them to “redouble” efforts to cooperate with refiners.
Golden State residents already pay some of the highest prices at the pump across the U.S., though two major refineries scheduled for closure and strict regulations may spike gas costs to as high as $8 per gallon as soon as next year, according to one study from the University of Southern California.
Oil refineries have been closing in California for years, and the state hasn’t seen a new major refinery built in decades, according to the CEC. Programs like California’s “cap-and-trade” program combined with strict low-carbon fuel standards are contributing to regulatory pressures that are driving refineries out of the state, industry experts have previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Critics like Republican California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones also note that stringent regulations imposed by Democrats have pressured refineries to leave the state. The refinery closures, in tandem with more regulations going into effect, have led some California officials to worry about a potential gas crisis in the state.
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They’re so damn smart, then why don’t they run it themselves?......................
“Nationalizing” (”Statising?”) the refineries would be the next step on the road to becoming Columbia-—and California is good enough at embracing insanity that if they took that step they would arrive there within about 10 years.
Maybe Oregon (my home state) and Washington would see what is going on, wise up, and step back from the abyss, but I wouldn’t count on it
ROTFL! Those Flamin’ Calis are almost as smart as the Rocky Mountain HIGH Coloradoans, Wisconsinite Cheeseheads or the Minniesodasomalies.
For an example of how crooked California regulators create market shortages to benefit select energy suppliers see: Energy Racketeering: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
You just push buttons, right?
Sacramento, CA (AP) 9/26/2025 Huge explosion at California refinery two months after California takes over operations.
Looks like In and Out Burger moving from in California out to Tennessee is the new paradigm for their In and Out refineries as well. Looks like California is changing its nickname under Newsom from the Golden State to the In and Out State as industry continues to flee his dump fire
Californians get the government they elect.
> They’re so damn smart, then why don’t they run it themselves? <
Right. And ask Venezuela’s President Maduro to send up a few advisers. They have experience in this sort of thing.
P.S. to Newsom: Be sure to fire all the technicians currently on the job. You don’t need their defeatist attitudes. Replace them with socialist college kids. Liberal arts majors, preferably.
It’s about time, and the reason is clear. The vast bulk of voters here aren’t ideologues; they’re just drones who’ve assimilated the Dems = good; GOP = bad narrative, and automatically vote accordingly. They fix this upcoming loss of 18% of our gas supply, or they could face an electoral bloodbath next year. This article cites $8 gas next year ; I’ve seen estimates as high as $12
You can buy it but the democrats stringent regulations say you can’t run it ,LOL
No worries. Everything will run on free electricity from wind and solar in about 10 years.
Most people would figure out the problem, but California Democrats are foam-at-the-mouth wackos.
Idiots
From the article, it doesn't look like Phillips is planning to sell the refinery. It looks like Phillips is planning to dismantle the refinery and repurpose its land for other uses.
-PJ
That is probably the intent, after failing to find a buyer.
Sad to say, this has an impact on northern Nevada as well since most of our gas comes from the left coast. Can hardly blame the refiners. Smooth move calis.
They should just turn it over to their “hardworking” illegal aliens. They shouldn’t have any problem running a refinery that Americans don’t want to run.
“In and Out State”—love it!:)
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