> California leaders have done everything they possibly can to chase refiners out of state

The refiners are running out of crude. Having more refiners wouldn’t solve the problem.

There's plenty of crude oil in CA. Certainly enough for California's needs, in fact.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> There's plenty of crude oil in CA. Certainly enough for California's needs California has 1.7 billion barrels of proven reserves [1] and imports 373 million barrels a year [2]. That's 5 years of imports in the ground. (At current rates, California depletes its proven reserves in 2040.) [1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=R... [2] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
	▲	john_strinlai 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		that is not my understanding or what is implied in the article. where would i go to find this fact?

Barbing 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also that poster forgot LA smog of yore!