Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
At every level of government, there are times when the left hand seems to have no clue what the right hand is doing. Nov. 8 might become one of those confounding times.That’s the date — just three days after the presidential election — reserved by the California Air Resources Board for a decision about whether to toughen state rules on the carbon intensity of fuels. The fuel of concern here is gasoline.
Most estimates, however, suggest a 65-cent-per-gallon increase if the low carbon fuel standard is made a lot stricter as proposed. That would come on top of California’s already high gas prices, which consistently run about $1.20 above the national average. Newsom has taken heat from several members of Congress from both parties and from the governors of Nevada and Arizona , for his plan — passed by the state Assembly and Senate — that forces refineries to maintain significant new reserves of gasoline for use at times when they shut down for maintenance or occasional emergencies.
Meanwhile, there is no doubt whatever that a severely lowered low carbon fuel standard would raise prices. So it’s high time Newsom tells his appointees to hold off on a stricter fuel standard. California’s mbient air is cleaner now. Electric cars produce no smog, hybrids produce only a little, and even gasoline engines spew much less than they once did, causing the browned clouds to become much more rare.
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