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Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis for Gasbuddy
Dr. Colin Murphy, Deputy Director for the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy
THE ANSWER
No, the California gas tax is not to blame for the spike in gas prices this summer. It did increase on July 1, but only by about a half cent per gallon.
WHAT WE FOUND In short no, it’s not. The increase in the gas tax this year is just to go up to keep up with inflation, and the impact is around a half a cent- a little over half a cent per gallon, Murphy said.
A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also.
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ONE DRILLER’S STORY: Jim Wilkes, president of a small, private Texas shale oil producer in Fort Worth, is still unable to restart production after his wells and other equipment froze at the beginning of the week.
“When you get bunches of wells frozen up, you just have to wait,” Wilkes told Josh in a recent interview. “These are low-volume wells, and things just freeze up.”