SACRAMENTO – To nobody’s surprise, the California Air Resources Board voted today to update the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and increase gas prices. Despite estimates this vote could spike prices by another 65 cents a gallon and demands for more transparency from lawmakers, journalists and the public, the board approved the new regulation.
The vote to increase gas prices comes after Newsom’s special session on gas prices, where new regulations have caused refiners to consider pulling out of California.
“This is just the latest example of Newsom and his Democrat allies in the Legislature screwing working Californians with even higher costs,” said Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (Yuba City). “Californians have been clear: they cannot afford the higher gas prices this new rule will cause. Democrat politicians have stood in the way of every effort to stop this price spike – they will have to answer to their outraged constituents when gas prices jump yet again.”
Republicans in the Assembly have called on the governor to stop the expensive new regulation and avert a massive increase in gas prices.
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