“With the facts not on their side, and desperate to demonstrate some action from the creation of an entire new state agency through SB X1-2,  the Newsom Administration’s minimum supply announcement is nothing more than a political attack on consumers and our industry.  Their claims about planning maintenance during the busiest driving season are false, purposely misleading and show an utter lack of understanding about our industry.

“To impose new operational mandates on energy producers based on such falsehoods is regulatory malpractice, and ignores the logistical challenges and costs associated with such a plan.  When this administration is ready to have a serious discussion about the facts and the policies this state has imposed that affect consumer costs, we will be there.

“However, collaboration is not a value of this administration.  Once again, they have proposed wide-ranging and costly new laws in the final few weeks of the legislative session, putting legislators, stakeholders and industry in an impossible position to deliver effective policy.”

Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President and CEO of the Western States Petroleum Association