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Alaska’s Economy Threatened by High Oil Taxes – A Cautionary Tale for California
March 27, 2013

By Catherine Reheis-Boyd Proponents of an oil severance tax on California oil producers routinely point to Alaska, which has the highest such tax in the nation, as clear evidence that a state government can extract disproportionately high taxes from a … Continue reading


New Report: Monterey Shale Promises Unprecedented Economic Benefits for California
March 15, 2013

By Catherine Reheis-Boyd There’s been a lot of excitement lately over the potential benefits of California’s Monterey Shale – a 1,700 square mile oil-bearing shale formation primarily in the San Joaquin Valley that contains an estimated 15 billion barrels of … Continue reading


New Report: Market Conditions Caused 2012 Gas Price Spikes
February 15, 2013

By Catherine Reheis-Boyd Last fall, gasoline prices in California shot up to record levels.  Some service stations in Southern California reportedly either ran out of fuel or stopped selling fuel.  And this all was occurring at a time when crude … Continue reading


Northwest WSPA Assocates Reach Out to Washington Legislators
February 13, 2013

By Jodie Muller For the third year in a row, a Legislative Outreach Day for the WSPA Associates members in Olympia gave Washington lawmakers a chance to hear the voices of hard working men and women whose work supports Washington’s … Continue reading


The “other” side of the hydraulic fracturing debate
January 23, 2013

By Catherine Reheis-Boyd It doesn’t feature international movie stars, enjoy nationwide commercial distribution, or have multi-million dollar backing from major Hollywood studios and wealthy investors.  But “FrackNation,” a new documentary produced on a shoestring budget funded by thousands of small … Continue reading




WSPA Energy News

Energy Facts
  1. 64.7 million gallons – Amount of gasoline consumed every day in the western US (excluding Alaska)
  2. 21 million gallons – Amount of diesel fuel consumed every day in the western US (excluding Alaska) 
  3. Crude oil costs drive retail gasoline prices - Crude oil costs comprise between half and three-fourths of the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. 
  4. More than 510,000 jobs in the western United States, with a payroll of more than $27 billion, depend on the petroleum industry 
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Alaska’s Economy Threatened by High Oil Taxes – A Cautionary Tale for California

By Catherine Reheis-Boyd Proponents of an oil severance tax on California oil producers routinely point to Alaska, which has the highest such tax in the nation, as clear evidence that a state government can extract disproportionately high taxes from a … Continue reading

Stillwater Report

Response to McCullough Research
Report “May and October 2012
Gasoline Price Spikes on
the West Coast”




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