00:01:16.080California's oil industry tore into the Democratic leadership on Monday after the last oil tank arrived in the state carrying fuel from the Middle East.
00:01:23.060Not that the state will face its real test of how to replace 200,000 barrels of oil a day as Iran restricts the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz and its ongoing war with the U.S.
00:01:32.560Last year, based on state data, California refineries sourced around 30 percent of foreign crude oil from the Persian Gulf.
00:01:40.260Unless action is taking gas prices could spike even more, experts have warned.
00:01:46.000So, well, first of all, if you're going to run around and say, well, I'm governor of the, you know, fourth largest, fifth largest, you know, economy in the world.
00:01:53.720OK. And you're going to call yourself a country. OK, prime minister, who's your secretary of energy and what are you doing for your citizens?
00:01:59.720And Gavin Newsom, you've made policies that cause people to leave. And now that is Iraqi oil, I believe, that is coming on tankers all the way.
00:02:12.440The tanker has to leave Iraq, go all the way over here, past Hong Kong, pull over to Macau, gamble a little bit, go past the Hawaiian Islands, get yourself a Mai Tai.
00:02:24.400And finally, the oil in a tanker gets to Southern California when there are small rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara with rocks and fake palm trees.
00:02:33.520Remember those, Pat? We used to look out and you have all these rocks that they put out there decoratively and fake palm trees trying to make an oil derrick look like anything but an oil derrick.
00:02:43.160And yet you had oil out there and you have a little bit of oil in central California and you had also the ability to build pipelines.
00:02:50.600But no, but no, this is where bad policies. And so guess what?
00:02:54.800Gavin Newsom, prime minister of the fourth largest economy, you don't have a secretary of energy.
00:03:01.260and now you're allowing this to come in and now this is the energy industry and you may say oh
00:03:05.640those are ceos that are evil they just want to sell things to us yeah at a lower price than what
00:03:10.060you're getting it now and you chase valero out you chase chevron out and people close refineries
00:03:14.800because you said we're going to put more inspectors out there and if there's a paint chip on your
00:03:18.700front door we're going to fine you for it and they made it so onerous and so i think that
00:03:24.720gavin newsom deserves this heat and i hope the people in california the voters are paying
00:03:29.560attention because you could have been not only in a great climate state, a great business state,
00:03:34.820but you could have had very economical energy using today's regulations and help keep things
00:03:41.560clean. And by the way, Steve Hilton addresses it very eloquently in this debate that they were
00:03:46.500having. Go ahead, Rob. Mr. Hilton, go ahead. It's not Donald Trump who's given us gas prices,
00:03:52.600two dollars higher than the rest of the country. It's Democrat policies, which Antonia and all
00:03:57.040Democrats here support. It's not Donald Trump that's given us the highest housing costs in the
00:04:02.020country. It's Democrat policies that all these Democrats support. Donald Trump is the president
00:04:08.020in all the other states of America where the cost of living is way lower than in California.
00:04:13.420Obviously, it is way past time for change in California, and endlessly going on about Donald
00:04:19.260Trump doesn't serve the needs of the struggling families and small businesses. Can you say it
00:04:24.160whether or not Mr. Hilton, thoughts on this, by the way, very well said it's unintended
00:04:28.780consequences, right? They, you know, the, the reason why they chase the oil industry out of
00:04:32.840California is to appear to be virtuous about the climate and where do they get their oil?
00:04:36.920As Thomas saying, you get it from Iraq and the Everglades or the Amazon. So now they're buying
00:04:41.640oil from Brazil that comes out of, I mean, they don't care about that though. That's not the
00:04:45.680point. It's virtuous signaling, right? Yeah. It's, it's, we need to feel better about ourselves. So
00:08:10.700And then Arnold Schwarzenegger actually legislated that carbon emission rule where now, like, I think it's like 54% of production domestically within California has been cut since that bill was signed.
00:08:23.220So, you know, they're attacking it on all fronts, gotten rid of the refining, gotten rid of the drilling offshore, gotten rid of the actual production in California.
00:08:30.820So that and they have always been at a disadvantage because there's less railways that connect, like, from the East Coast to the West Coast because of the Rocky Mountains.
00:08:39.220So, yeah, I mean, but they have all the resources in the world.
00:08:43.660I wonder if it's a similar thing to Europe because, you know, I always wonder, like, are they consciously doing this?0.53
00:08:49.160Is it, like, ignorance or is it malice?
00:08:51.160And in Europe, I know that Putin actually did a propaganda campaign that convinced a lot of European countries to go with the green energy sources because he wanted them to be dependent on Russia's oil pipeline.
00:09:03.960And so I haven't looked too deep into it with California specifically what the intentions are, but it feels like one of those things like where it's almost intentional destruction.
00:09:10.960If you just look at the highest gas taxes in America today, okay, gas taxes in America today, California has just a state gas tax per gallon of 71 cents.