"California’s climate programs — such as cap-and-invest and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard — accounted for less than 6% of gas price increases from 2019 to 2023. That’s a small fraction of what a single refinery accident can do."
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/04/gas-prices-high-california-climate/
@anirvan
1) Grateful to #CalMatters for their coverage of this profiteering by the #FossilFool majors
2) A reminder that #profiteering only works with essential goods & services. That's why #Chevron et al con do so with near impunity. AND if we were powering mobility, from e-scooters to trains, with electricity from #renewables (wind, water, solar (#WWS) and advanced geothermal, we wouldn't be totally dependent on #FossilFuel. And profiteering would be harder to do.
Guess what? We have the technology to convert. Why do we let the FossilFools stop that conversion?
The real case for #PowerToThePeople by renewables.
Anirvan Chatterjee
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0