California’s state Senate Republicans on Wednesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to convene a special legislative session to address high gasoline prices and respond to the impending shutdown of one of the state’s eight remaining gasoline-producing refineries.
What happened: State Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones and his nine Republican peers sent a letter to Newsom with a list of policy proposals to address “the ongoing gasoline cost crisis and the impending gasoline supply emergency.”
They blamed a “decades-long political and policy crusade against the oil and gas industry” for “an unprecedented cost and supply crisis” that could depress the economy and lead to government service cuts amid revenue declines.
Newsom (D) responded forcefully on social media, pointing out that California’s inflation-adjusted gasoline prices are cheaper today than they were when he took office in January 2019.
