Chevron gives Gavin Newsom the middle finger with dramatic move that could help California drivers

California Post ^ | 3/24/26 | Zain Khan

[Libloather]

Oil giant Chevron will begin purchasing oil from Sable Offshore Corp., the Houston-based company announced Tuesday. The dramatic move comes amid a legal battle between California and the Trump administration.

The petroleum corporation plans to purchase an initial 20,000 barrels of oil per day from offshore platforms near Santa Barbara, just weeks after the federal government approved the restart of production, Bloomberg reported.

The move is a boost for Sable, which has faced strong environmental opposition to resuming operations in California waters.

“We’re going to run Sable’s crude at El Segundo in April,” Chevron executive Andy Walz told the outlet, adding that the Los Angeles-area refinery — which can process about 269,000 barrels per day — is set to handle the supply.

Sable announced on March 16 that it had restarted production at its Santa Barbara offshore platforms, sending oil through the region’s controversial pipeline for the first time since 2015.

The restart came after Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that allows the federal government to accelerate production of critical materials, including oil and gas.

That same week, California filed a lawsuit challenging the order, arguing it “illegally asserts exclusive jurisdiction over two California onshore oil pipelines” and prioritizes “donors over our people and communities.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta responded to the news, writing in a statement to the Post: “The Attorney General is seeking to halt Sable’s unlawful restart of California’s onshore oil pipelines that are subject to State regulation and oversight.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: california; chevron; drilling; energy; gasoline; goofygavin; newsom

[Libloather]

Gavin needs more of the finger.

[frank ballenger]

Newsom: So it’s really half of a peace sign, right? 🖕✌️

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””The petroleum corporation plans to purchase an initial 20,000 barrels of oil per day from offshore platforms near Santa Barbara””””

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Chevron has been involved in the offshore Santa Barbara field for decades. They already have pipelines in place to move the oil to the El Segundo refinery.

[lgjhn23]

Grusome Newscum needs more than a finger as big as that arsehole is.....

[Carry_Okie]

Juan Cabrillo described the coastline of Southern California having rocks coated black with oil. Drilling and removing it from that underground reservoir reduced the leakage that routinely fouled Southern beaches with oily blobs I remember well from my childhood. The Chumash Indians used to seal their boats with it for coastal fishing.

[MotorCityBuck]

Delta Airlines earlier today and now Chevron telling folks to get stuffed.

I like this.

[Organic Panic]

I remember my great grandfather taking us all to the garage and breaking out his lawn mower gas can and a rag to get all the tar balls off our feet.

[Never trust a politician]

Gavin give us Californians reason to sympathize with New York denizens.

I wish that President Trump and some here would realize that we are under a hostile occupation. Many of us can’t leave, even if it means throwing a freshly empty weapon at the Gestapo coming to take it.

GWB sold us out; let ‘em swarm over the border into the waiting arms of the uniparty.

[eyeamok]

I grew up in manhattan beach and in the early 60’s you could not walk the beach without coming back full of tar and oil. It stopped when they put the rigs offshore, up until then the beaches all over socal were like that.

[Carry_Okie]

I grew up in manhattan beach and in the early 60’s you could not walk the beach without coming back full of tar and oil. It stopped when they put the rigs offshore, up until then the beaches all over socal were like that.

And when Reagan opened up that drilling the money paid for a vast expansion of the University of California infrastructure. The leftists should have sent him a thank you note, of which they are incapable.