OPPOSE SB 1245
California's energy policies are out of control. SB 1245 makes them worse.
The highest gas prices in the country, refineries closing, more reliance on dirty foreign oil, and now a bill that piles on more cost and could shut down family-and minority-owned small businesses.
We've Seen Where This Leads
California's gas problems keep getting worse and much of it traces right back to Sacramento. Refineries keep closing, and the state keeps adding rules and fees that we all feel at the pump. SB 1245 pushes in the same wrong direction. Californians are sick of it.
What SB 1245 Does
SB 1245 adds new costs and revives two old ideas — "divorcement" and "open supply" — as supposed fixes for gas prices. They aren't new. They've been studied and rejected for decades because they don't lower prices. And the state doesn't need this bill: California already has the tools to handle supply problems and keep an eye on the market. SB 1245 just piles on more cost and risk.
Read CFCA's SB 1245 Opposition Letter HERE
California Already Has The Tools. This Bill Just Adds Cost.
When there's a real fuel emergency, California and the federal government can already step in and ease the rules to keep gas flowing. SB 1245 doesn't add anything useful to that. What it does add is a new fee that punishes the companies still making fuel here in California. It is just one more signal that the state would rather push them out than keep them.
That should worry all of us, because California can't just buy its way out of the problem with imported fuel. The more we rely on dirty foreign oil, the more exposed we are when something goes wrong, and the more we feel it with sudden shortages and major price spikes. Making it harder to produce fuel here, while leaning even more on imports, is exactly the wrong move at the worst possible time.
Who Pays
Two groups: every driver, through higher prices and a shakier fuel supply, and the small-business owners caught in the bill's path. Roughly two out of three California gas station owners are first-generation immigrants who built their businesses with the help of a fuel brand. SB 1245 would cut off that support. For a business earning pennies a gallon, that could mean a CLOSED sign in their future.
THE BOTTOM LINE
If Sacramento really wants to protect families from higher prices, it shouldn't pass a bill that promises to make things worse. SB 1245 raises costs, threatens minority-owned small businesses, and does nothing to make gas more affordable. Wrong bill, wrong time.
There's Still Time To Stop It.
