Informational Hearing: Environmental Impacts of and Considerations for Refinery Closures. Suzette Martinez Valladares
California state senator Suzette Martinez Valladares gives the democrat supermajority a much needed basic lesson in economics and obliterates their policies that have chased oil companies out of the state for decades. pic.twitter.com/tLJo4MPEL8
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 18, 2026
I want to take a minute to really address what I'm hoping to hear, but also point out that for years this legislature has really sent a clear message to the oil and gas producers and refineries and that message was and has been, "You don't have a future here," and the markets responded. Capital left. Reinvestments slowed, and now we are seeing refineries have closed down. In 1982, there were 43 refineries in California. Today we have 7. Meanwhile, demand is up and California are paying about 50% more at the pump than the national average. We produce roughly 20% of the crude oil that we consume and more than 65% of that comes from foreign sources. We are one more refinery closure, one more pipeline failure, and we'll be staring at catastrophic instability.
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