Regulations, Taxes, Pushing Out Refineries Raising Gas Prices
On MS NOW’s “The 11th Hour” Monday, San Jose Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Mahan said “our many rules and regulations, the fact that we’ve pushed all of our refineries out of state” and the high gas tax.
Host Stephanie Ruhle asked, “You want state leaders to suspend the gas tax. Gov. Newsom (D) says it won’t lower prices. You’ve criticized him, but could he be right about this?”
Mahan responded, “Well, that’s not the only high cost driver. A war that none of us really understand or seem to have a way out of is the biggest cost driver. But part of the reason we have the highest energy costs in the country in California is specifically our gasoline tax. It’s also our many rules and regulations, the fact that we’ve pushed all of our refineries out of the state. We’ve made a lot of policy decisions. But we We could provide immediate relief to workers by reducing our costs. Gasoline taxes are the highest in the country. We pay more for gas in California than in the state of Hawaii, which is an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that has to import all of its gas. We could provide relief to workers today, and we should.
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