Plan from California’s Newsom would make refiners stockpile fuel reserves (NYSE:CVX)

California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed laws Thursday that might require oil refiners within the state to keep up minimal reserves of gasoline and different fuels in an effort to forestall provide shortages and worth spikes throughout refinery outages.

The California Power Fee mentioned refiners within the state maintained lower than 15 days of provide of gasoline on 63 days final 12 months, which it mentioned induced costs to spike and value drivers $650M.

“Value spikes on the pump are revenue spikes for Massive Oil,” Newsom mentioned. “Refiners must be required to plan forward and backfill provides to maintain costs secure, as an alternative of enjoying video games to earn much more income.”

Beneath the proposal, California refiners can be required to current resupply plans which can be sufficient to deal with losses in manufacturing when their crops are present process upkeep work.

Claims that refiners deliberately idle crops to carry out upkeep throughout driving season are false and “purposely deceptive,” the Western States Petroleum Affiliation mentioned. “To impose new operational mandates on power producers based mostly on such falsehoods is regulatory malpractice, and ignores the logistical challenges and prices related to such a plan.”

Firms that personal refineries in California embody Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), PBF Power (PBF), Valero Power (VLO) and Phillips 66 (PSX).

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