If they’re dictating that everything will run on electricity by 2030, I think it should be illegal for CA to have ANY refineries within their borders…

CALIFORNIA? OIL/GAS??? say it ain't true!

Hah, after reading the title and the first line of your post the first thought in my head was "Venezuela", but I see you beat me to it.

The article cited two reasons for gasoline consumption in the state declining. Reason #3 was left out: people leaving the state, especially the kind needed to run a refinery.

At least the state can sue itself if anything goes wrong.

Unless they buy one already running, it will take 30 years for them to decide where it should be built.

The 'refinery' will probably specialize in converting used fryer oil to use in biodiesel engines.
Construction cost will be over $100 billion and they'll expect the fedgov to cover their losses like TBTF banks.
How could 45 million fast food customers be wrong?

Ellis Wyatt: Gonna buy lots of stock in Orville Redenbacher, watch the show for a while and then offer 10% to buy up after development and run the place.

I thought it was California that shut all their refineries down and was forced to buy their fuel from other states.

Funny how what goes around comes around...

Oh hell, no. Look at how well they have managed forest and brush and fire mitigation. And then they want to own their own thing to blow up? They chased every oil company out with asinine regulations, taxes and fees, and now they want their own? Yea, that will go as well as their bullet train has....

After making life hard on the refineries via regulations and fines they want to do this. I hope they give the refineries to them and they come in to find the place is made out of paper mache.

A Refinery Represents 120yrs of optimizing outputs based on crude inputs. Certain refineries "prefer" light sweet over dark, etc. etc.

I BEG everyone to zoom into a picture of a refinery as I did. And just look at the various pipes going around. Just IMAGINE the CA Government DEI Hires trying to figure out where ONE of those pipes go, over and over again.

Could they do it? Certainly NOT profitably. And probably not in my life time!

Now, here's a GENIUS idea. Stop ATTACKING the owners of the existing refineries, and help them DECIDE to stay in CA.

But that's kinda like making sure there is water in the fire hydrant BEFORE the fire. The SIZE of that MISTAKE is not completely apparent until the fire strikes.

The Refineries leaving is the telltale sign you waited too long, because those that were leaving, probably put off maintenance for the last 10yrs, milking every last dollar out of their soon to be lost investment.

INSANITY. If only CA could get cars to run on hot air... Then their politicians could actually become useful!