Posted on 11/08/2024 12:59:46 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Gas prices could soon be going up as California aims to hit carbon emissions goals.
Members of the California Air Resources Board are set to vote Friday on an update to the state’s clean air rules, specifically the low carbon fuel standard.
The issue is hitting an emission reduction goal set by Gov. Gavin Newsom to nearly half of 1990 levels by 2030. Amending the rules to reach that goal likely translates to significant increases in gas prices.
While the Air Resources Board hasn’t issued an updated estimate on a gas price hike, its last one was 47 cents a gallon by next year. The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has said it could be up to 20 cents a gallon.
Average Bay Area gas prices as of Thursday were $4.64 in Alameda County, $4.81 in San Francisco and $4.56 in Santa Clara County. Statewide, the average was $4.25, and the national average was $3.11.
When asked about whether high gas prices are the strategy to force people to use more gas, board Chair Leanne Randolph explained that it’s to push lower-carbon choices.
"Because fossil fuels have a higher carbon intensity, fossil fuel producers need to take steps to comply with the regulation," Randolph said. "And those steps result in increased variety of fuels available and overall lower the carbon emitted through our transportation sector."
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$20 per gallon coming soon!
You get what you vote for.
In today's world, the air that comes out of a cars tail pipe is often cleaner than the air that goes in and the days of California air pollution are long gone.
Yet California politicians are obsessed with drafting more and more restrictive environmental regulations.
At the same time these same politicians are encourage and funding a homeless epidemic that has millions of people living on the streets in totally unsanitary shanty towns that are infect the entire region with undisposed of human waste and rotting garbage.
Areas of California have become open sewers including most of San Francisco.
The once nice San Francisco Bay is polluted with untreated human waste and garbage washed off the streets of San Francisco, and waste from toxic illegal street drugs and needles
At the same time, Bay Area municipalities are getting drowned in the costs of steadily tightening irrational and non productive sewage treatment environmental regulations that do absolutely nothing to improve the water quality except to dilute the massive influx of raw sewage and garbage washing into the Bay due to Cali Crazi Politicans insane homeless policies with water that is now pure to the parts per trillion level instead of the parts per billion level.
All at the cost of billions in totally unnecessary capitol upgrades while the rest of California's roads and electrical grid and power generation systems deteriorate into dangerous levels.
it's enough to damage one's mental heath just thinking about it , which is probably one of the goals.
It's getting cholera epidemic level bad in California and it's just a matter of time before they get it. Maybe that's what Californians need to wake up.
Gas on the CA side of the Colorado River is about 33% higher 5 miles away on the AZ side of the Colorado.
Fuel companies can always decide not to serve California. Really drive up the prices, so California will have to go electric much sooner than planned.
Tesla stock goes up! Ironic
They already are. Phillips 66 provides notice of its plan to cease operations at Los Angeles-area refinery in 2025.
Phillips provides 8% of LA's gasoline. This can't be quickly replaced.
Newsome just signed executive orders last week to lower the cost of gas so this shouldn’t affect price. Right?
When the state’s transportation system collapses and everyone is back to walking and riding horses as the main mode of transportation, they can look up at the sky and be thankful for how clean their air is and that they did their part to save the world from Global Warming . . . .
Newsom warming up for 2028.
DAYUM...I thought $2.65 was bad here in Memphis.
16 unelected bureaucrats will cost people at least $600 more per year on top of gas that is nearly double the cost in any other state.
They get everything paid by the taxpayers, the car, the gas, a per diem of at least $100 per day. It will not affect them at all.
These people were appointed by the democrat governors.
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